STM310005CAA00G-RK, Lies about working with Mac
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Lies about working with Mac
I’ve just purchased this device to backup my Macbook because of a hard drive crash.
I specifically bought the device because it would work with a Mac and I’ve met all of their minimum requirements.
So I hook up the thing, and their software doesn’t find the drive as it’s supposed to. I think, oh that’ll be okay, I’ll just configure the IP in the device and it’ll be good from here on out.
Nope, It *must* run through the detect phase of the program every time. After a lot of trial and error, I got the thing to detect, but not reliably. This means backups don’t happen as scheduled. Pretty much making the product worthless to me.
I spoke with their tech. support, when I told them I was using with a mac they actually said “you’re killing me”
I recommend against this product if you have a mac.
Update (2/6/2012): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen.
The featured review for this product, Seagate Maxtor Central Axis 1 TB Network Storage Server STM310005CAA00G-RK Electronics, was written by P. Demarco.
The average rating for this item is out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.
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Posted on: April 17, 2010
Filed under: Reviews
Reviews (2)
P. Demarco
March 28th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
Lies about working with Mac
Rated 1 stars.
R.C.
April 11th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Caution, Can’t backup Shared Docs!!!
While this did install quickly as easily, the software won’t backup the Windows Shared Documents folder. (Which is an alias to c:\documents and Settings\all users…) In fact it won’t backup anything in documents and settings, which is of course where you keep your favorites, and other key bits. (Oh, or program files, although one could argue that’s not unreasonable.)
So if you just need shared storage, go for it. But if backing up multiple PCs is the goal, keep looking. I think Amazon will be getting mine back soon.
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