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(More customer reviews)In October 2007 was in the market for an inexpensive solution to store a large collection of documents, ebooks and family digital photos. This unit looked interesting and was the right price, so I bought it with my fingers crossed. It performed this task laudably for a few months until the fan got very noisy and started to have intermittent problems spinning up to dissipate the heat.
Hoping to head off problems, I put in a request at Fantom's tech support site to ask if they would like to send just a replacement fan or should I get a replacement unit, and if I can get one shipped and then return the other unit the next day once I've rescued the data from the unit which I now have powered down. Unfortunately, I have heard nothing from them after a week and a half, and have concluded that I probably won't be hearing from them.
I now realize I should have gone with my gut and built out a low-power server myself rather than depending on this unit to safeguard data that's important to me. Once I move this data off the unit, I suspect I'll use it for experimentation rather than as an personal file server. Thanks for nothing, Fantom!
Oh, one more gotcha: even if you turn off the DHCP server on the unit, it will turn itself on if it loses its IP address. This means if you disconnect it from your network or power cycle the switch or router that you have it plugged into it may re-enable the one on board, giving you an extra rogue DHCP server on your network. This can cause all sorts of problems on your network (we routinely threaten to have people at my office shot if they plug something in that has a DHCP server embedded because it causes a LOT of support calls until we track the offender down), and isn't worth the headache.
To resolve this sort of behavior, make sure you power down the unit before disconnecting and reconnecting it to your network or power-cycling the networking device it's attached to. It'll save you headaches in the long run.
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