Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

[Alan Dayley]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Steven <stevensspam at cox.net> wrote:
> Ah! Good to hear someone having success. Did you do the initial setup
> from Windows? Is that necessary? I think the main concern I had after
> the initial googling for reviews was that when I grabbed a copy of the
> manual off the WD web site it implied that the setup needed to be done
> from either a Windows or Mac machine. My sisters computer is for a
> number of reasons running Win2k which isn't on the compatibility list.
> And I so rarely boot this laptop in XP that I occasionally half forget
> it's even installed. The desktop machine only has XP on it, but I use it
> so rarely that I haven't yet bothered to get it on the network.
>
> There was mention in the manual of a web interface, but instead of
> giving an address to put in your browser it said how to access it by way
> of the software package you were expected to install.
>
> One thing I don't remember seeing touched on in any reviews, does it run
> hot or have much fan noise?

Steven,

Sorry for the confusion.  My "My Book" (See, terrible product name!)
is not networked.  It's USB.

I don't understand why special software would be needed for a
networked storage device.  That's lame.

Alan