I have had my NSLU2 for three months. It stopped working after 2.5 months. Sent it back for warrenty repair, Quality Assurance found nothing wrong with it, they shipped it back to me. It still did not work. Hours on the phone with Linksys Tech support to get new RMA to ship unit back. It's a great unit when it works, but BEWARE! Once you format the disk on your external hard drive to use the NSLU2, there is no going back to simply plugging in your external hard drive to your computer...so I have had no acces to my external hard drive for several weeks now...if I could go back in time, I would not have purchased this unit...

Pretty simple to use and set up. Make sure to use an Maxtor external USB 2.0 hard drive.

You can use this device as a web server, even though it is not ment to be used that way.

The device is a little on the slow side, but agian, the unit does what it is supposed to do. For those who complain about speed, please re-read this paragraph.

This device is great for backing up and file shring across a net work.

The install disc does not work on Macs, but you can still configure the NAS using Safari (or any web browser). Point safari to http://192.168.1.77 (or whatever the IP assigned to your NAS is) the username/password is admin/admin. Change your password, format the disk then you're ready to go.

You can not transfer files whose name contain certain characters that MacOS X allows but linux does not (for example, "/"). This is a big problem. But, you can work around it by creating a disk image on the NAS then transferring your files to the mounted disk image. This way you can transfer your existing files without having to find and rename the files that use the offending characters.

Overall, a very nice product.

I was shocked to see this device average only 3 stars. I've since read all the reviews; people who rated the device lower than 4 starts almost universally based their assessment on the fact that the NSLU2 will not read pre-formatted hard drives with data on them. Boo hoo. That's a pittance compared to the value provided by this device.

This device allows you to easily setup a file server for your network. It's Web interface is typical of LinkSys products -- good, not great. However, beyond simply allowing everybody read/write access to everything shared, the device allows you to define users, create multiple directories to share, and specify which uses can read and write to each directory.

This is NAS made easy. The NSLU2 is worth every penny!

There is a small but growing community of people world-wide who are using this device as a very low-cost, low-power Linux box. If you are buying this for that purpose, it's a great product. I love it for what it is.

I would not recommend this to anyone who is not a Linux hacker enthusiast or a professional network administrator. Mine did not work at all until I plugged in a new USB 2.0 flash drive (it didn't even appear on my network with just a USB 1.1 external hard drive attached to it). The documentation, such as it is (mostly on the CD that comes with the device), frequently defaults to such helpful suggestions as "if this doesn't work, see your network administrator."

In my experience, it is a lot easier to buy a second hard drive and install it in your PC than to setup one of these on your home network.