You can also select Automatic Port Forward if your router supports that feature via UPnP NAT Traversal. You can also enable Dynamic DNS (DDNS) and select between the four DDNS providers shown in Figure 8. You can configure your network settings for DHCP (default) or a Static IP address. When that's the worst to be said, you know you've found a winner. Network - Theres not really a lot to see on the network menu. Most drives in this class come with two sockets. The only complaint I could find, and believe me I looked, is that there's only one USB socket for plugging in or transferring data from external storage. The Gigabit Ethernet connection is very welcome – small businesses will certainly like the speed if everyone is on Ethernet - but might get lost if your wireless connection isn't at least 802.11g (the 54Mbps speed). I tried it on a Ubuntu distribution and, sure enough, a day or two later I looked and it was done. This will surely have some people in the video and music industries frothing at the mouth.
#LACIE NETWORK ASSISTANT WINDOWS 10 TORRENT#
Upload a torrent tracker file (the tiny one you initially download) and it will head off and quietly get on with downloading it. Yes: the d2 comes with a torrent downloading program built in. Looking about the web interface, you notice the usual things – folder permissions, administration, user sharing control of shares – and a surprising extra: "torrents". This is excellent for devices such as Windows Media Centers or Apple's iTunes you can put your entire iTunes library on it and iTunes will find it.
That is, it advertises itself and its files to any media-playing device on your network. The d2 has UPnP/DLNA – Universal Plug & Play/Digital Living Network Association software. You can even set it up as a Time Machine backup drive for an Apple machine (which I don't recommend over a wireless connection too slow).
#LACIE NETWORK ASSISTANT WINDOWS 10 MAC#
I used it with an Apple machine, where it shows up immediately (no messing with workgroups, thank heaven) you can configure network shares for Windows, Mac or Linux boxes. There is also a LaCie Network Assistant program you can use for Windows, Mac and Linux, which has a so-so interface – but in fact, a web browser is plenty. The d2 has a faintly worrying blue light on the front, but that can be controlled remotely – as of course all of it can through a web interface. You can see that the sweet spot is 1TB apparently the hike in price-per-gigabyte for the 1.5TB version is to do with how many platters can be squeezed into the enclosure, and the high price-per-GB of the 500GB version is to do with the cost of, well, the enclosure and so on. The prices are respectively £145, £170 and £230. I think I've found the last networked hard drive I want to buy: the LaCie d2 Network, which comes in 500GB, 1TB (that's terabyte) and 1.5TB flavours. That is, make sure that it's big enough to have tons of room for huge amounts of files because if you have to replace it after a year, copying the files over from the old one will be tedious. However, when you buy a networked hard drive, make sure it's your last one ever.
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