The good:

• It's relatively cheap.
• Decent amount of storage.
• Plugs into ethernet.
• Web based management interface is strong.
• Reasonably quiet.
• Sleek looks.

The bad:

• It's quite slow.

This all started because one of the drives in my RAID1 array started dropping out. I felt I should take a full backup right away, but my existing backup drives did not have enough free space. I'm already running out of USB ports, and its always a hassle to hang ... more after the jump