Netgear SC101
The SC101 was a home computer networking storage product manufactured and distributed by Netgear under the Storage Central brand from around 2005 through 2010. The devices shared data stored on one or two internal disks via Ethernet links.
Description
The two models in the Storage Central line were the Netgear SC101 and SC101T.
The original SC101 model could hold one or two disks (sold separately) using Parallel ATA (known as "IDE" at the time) and had a 100 Mbit/sec Ethernet over twisted pair interface.{{cite web |url=http://www.netgear.com/Products/Storage/NetworkStorage/SC101.aspx |title=Netgear SC101 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20090304130558/http://www.netgear.com/Products/Storage/NetworkStorage/SC101.aspx |archivedate= March 4, 2009 |accessdate= May 24, 2013 }}
The later Netgear SC101T model could hold one or two Serial ATA disks and had a Gigabit Ethernet interface.{{cite web |url=http://www.netgear.com/Products/Storage/NetworkStorage/SC101t.aspx |title=Netgear SC101T |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20090306073023/http://www.netgear.com/Products/Storage/NetworkStorage/SC101T.aspx |archivedate= March 6, 2009 |accessdate= May 24, 2013 }}
The ZSAN technology was licensed in 2005 from Zetera Corporation.{{Cite news |title= Zetera's Z-SAN(TM) technology receives acclaim as it comes to market in NETGEAR(R) product |date= September 2005 |work= SAN/LAN Newsletter |volume=23 |issue=9 |publisher= Information Gatekeepers |pages= 11–12 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=BmOJbAxz4pgC&pg=PA11 }}
Reviews praised the low price and ease of installation, but noted limited software support and passive cooling.{{cite web |url= http://www.cnet.com/network-storage/netgear-sc101-storage-central/4505-3382_7-31470528.html |title=Netgear SC101 Storage Central Review |work= CNET |date= October 17, 2005 |accessdate= May 24, 2013 }}{{cite web |url= http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/review-sc101,review-1470.html |title=Review: NETGEAR SC101 Storage Central |work= Tom's Hardware |date= October 11, 2005 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20120329152713/http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/review-sc101,review-1470.html |archivedate= March 29, 2012 |accessdate= May 24, 2013 }}
At least one reviewer encountered an incompatible disk drive.{{Cite news |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=DOsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA84 |title=Digital Piggy Bank |author= Andrew Tan |work= HWM |date= January 2006 |page= 84 |accessdate=May 24, 2013 }}
By January 2010 the Storage Central series was replaced by Netgear storage products using the ReadyNAS name.{{cite web |url= http://netgear.com/Products/Storage.aspx |title=Netgear storage systems |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100114070631/http://netgear.com/Products/Storage.aspx?for=Home+Networking |archivedate= January 14, 2010 |accessdate= May 24, 2013 }}
=Software=
The SC101 provided a block-level storage area network (SAN) interface, as opposed to file-level network-attached storage (NAS). Thus, like any SAN device, specific drivers and software must be installed on any client PC wishing to access the device. Only the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems were supported.
= Linux drivers =
There was discussion of a driver for Linux in 2008.{{cite web |url = http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=29788|title = SC101 Mount Partition in Linux - NETGEAR Forums|date = September 30, 2008|accessdate = May 24, 2013|url-access=registration }} An open source driver for Linux on Google Code used the network block device technology,{{cite web |url = https://code.google.com/p/sc101-nbd/|title = sc101-nbd - Google Code|accessdate = May 24, 2013}} but because this is a block level device, the OS is responsible for creating a filesystem. Consequently, a filesystem created by Linux will not be compatible with one created by Windows.
However, a 2006 post on kerneltrap.org suggested it may be possible to use NTFS-3g on Linux.{{cite web |url= http://kerneltrap.org/node/6800 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060719040008/http://kerneltrap.org/node/6800 |url-status= dead |archive-date= July 19, 2006 |title= Zetera Z-San Filesystem and Devices - Any Linux Interest? |date= July 6, 2006 |work= KernelTrap |accessdate= May 24, 2013 }} If possible, this would allow access from both Windows and Linux machines, at the expense of losing features that the proprietary file system offers, such as sharing the device access across multiple machines, as well as mirroring support.
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Further reading
- {{cite web |url= http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/network-wifi/224/netgear-sc101/ |title=Netgear SC101 - PC Advisor |first= |last= |work=pcadvisor.co.uk |year=2005|accessdate=17 September 2011}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.computeractive.co.uk/pcw/review/1921177/netgear-sc101-storage-central |title=Netgear SC101 Storage Central - Computeractive - product reviews you can trust |first=Will |last=Stapley |work=computeractive.co.uk |year=2005 |accessdate=17 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330035759/http://www.computeractive.co.uk/pcw/review/1921177/netgear-sc101-storage-central |archivedate=30 March 2012 }}
- {{cite web |url= http://www.devhardware.com/c/a/Storage-Devices/Netgear-SC101-Network-Attached-Storage-for-the-Home/ |title=Netgear SC101 Network Attached Storage for the Home |first=Dan |last=Wellman |work=devhardware.com |date=7 February 2007|accessdate=17 September 2011}}
- {{Cite news |title= Storage Central from NETGEAR breaks new ground for small businesses and home users |work=PC World |volume=23 |year=2005 |pages=152 }}
External links
- [http://support.netgear.com/product/SC101 Netgear SC101 Support Page]
- [http://wiki.openwrt.org/oldwiki/openwrtdocs/hardware/netgear/sc101 OpenWrtDocs hardware internal information on the Netgear SC101]
- [http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/sc101 OpenWrt Wiki Table of Hardware: Netgear SC101]