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2.© 1996-2006 NETGEAR® . All rights reserved
» Fail-Safe• Back up your most valuable files automatically with
mirroring• Advanced backup and synchronization software is
included» Easy
• Simply add one or two IDE drives of any capacity• Store your music, video, photos, and games
» Sharable• Accessible by all the PCs on your network as a
simple letter drive• Share files easily and keep personal files private
» Expandable• Upgrade your storage capacity with larger IDE
drives• Add additional Storage Central units
NETGEAR Solution- Storage Central
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Customer Wants to Back-up Valuable Content and Add Extra Hard-disk Space
» Valuable content and important files NOT backed-up• $$ spent on music, videos, games etc.• Priceless family photos• Important tax and financial records
» Running out of PC hard-disk space
» Wants to add external hard-disk space and share it (like a printer)
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Storage Central- How it connects!
Add Storage Central and ALL PCs can
share its disk-drives
Looks like a new letter drive was
added to each PC
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Files are easily accessed on the network!
• Now back-up, store, and share files in one central location• Files can be shared or kept private
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• Increasing amounts of valuable digital content in the home
Digital Videos
Recorded TV
Movies
Recipes
Digital
Photos
Tax Records
MP3
School Projects
Games
• NOT back-up and PCs requiring addition hard-disk space
No more worries about lost files!
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Storage Central vs. USB External Disk Drive and NAS
USB ExternalDisk Drive
Single DriveNAS*
Storage Central(SC101)
Connects to the home router X X
Embedded mirror data protection X
Expand capacity of existing drive X
Appears as a local disk/drive letter X X
Hides private drives from others X
Sharable without a dedicated PC X X
Stream video and music simultaneously X X
Allows any IDE drive from any vendor X
True SAN technology X
Includes automatic back-up software X X*such as Maxtor Shared Storage, Iomega NAS 100d, Lynksys NSLU2, Mirra Personal Server, Buffalo Linkstation
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Storage Central vs. Competition
Flexibility to create storage capacity of your choosing at
the LOWEST cost