Netgear SC101
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The SC101 is a home networked storage product manufactured by Zetera Corporation and distributed by Netgear. The device is capable of sharing data stored on 1 or 2 internal disks (either IDE PATA or SATA depending on model) via Ethernet links.
The SC101 comes in two models:
[edit] SAN not NAS
The SC101 is a block level device, hence a storage area network (SAN) device, as opposed to a file-level device, aka network-attached storage (NAS). The result of this is that you have to have proprietary drivers installed on Windows in order to connect to the device. Also, due to the proprietary file system, when used as a constant use file server (such as with streaming media or database hosting) the SC101 can suffer from data corruption. Because of this, Netgear has recommended that the device be used exclusively for storage of important data as it was initially intended.
[edit] Linux drivers
There has been lots of talk[specify] of a driver for Linux but Netgear have failed to deliver. There is an open source driver for Linux on Google Code, 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 post on kerneltrap.org suggests using NTFS-3g on Linux. They report to have had no data loss with this, and performance was acceptable.
