Cirago NUS1000 Network USB Storage Link Reviews
by sgh on August 27, 2012
- Access USB hard drives and USB flash drives over a network connection
- Share music libraries using the built-in iTunes server
- Stream photos, music and movies to compatible entertainment devices over your network
- Download directly to connected USB devices using the built-in BitTorrent client
- Access printers over a network using the built-in USB print server
The Cirago NUS1000 Network USB Storage Link turns any USB mass storage device into a networked attached storage. With 4 USB ports on the NUS1000 and a maximum capacity of 2TB per USB port, you can have up to 8TB of storage connected to your network. The print server allows you to share a USB printer across your network without having a computer constantly powered on. You can easily share media files and music over your network using the built-in Media and iTunes servers. With the built-in Bit
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- Loopholes of the Rich:
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In easy-to-follow and straightforward language, this guide teaches business owners how to pay only those taxes which are due to the government - and save the rest. By learning the rules that the wealthy play by, business owners can take advantage of legal tax deductions to cut their annual tax payments.
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A very easy NAS link,
My (Home) network consists of 12 computers, three “Box Office” media players, this unit and an attached USB 2 TB drive.
The unit comes set to 192.168.1.66:1010, which has caused me problems with some routers. After turning the NUS1000 on, it reconfigured itself to 192.168.0.xx:1010 and I could then configure the rest of the options. The documentation with the unit is a 25 page manual, which is pretty well written.
I attached a USB 2TB Fantom drive (USB eSATA), I am able to watch the same movie at the same time on 2 of the Box Office media players. I have not tried 3 yet, I would assume that would also work.
The write-only NTFS partition is to me a welcome safe guard against someone unknowingly (or intentionally) writing to the drive. When I add movies, I connect the drive through the eSATA connection on the drive itself.
For video traffic usage, this is by far the most straight forward and least expensive way to bring up USB drives (up to 4 2TB drives) onto a network.
It provides for several different server types, but I just used the File Server.
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|Convienient and expandable,
I bought this item as I wanted a NAS adapter that would allow me to use my USB drives on my network. I looked at others and many have reliability issues, need a web subscription, or installation of software to access the drive from the network. The NUS1000 is a small self contained NAS server with capability to handle four 2tb drives so it looked like my best option. Speed tests indicate I’m getting about 4MB/s write 4.5MB/s read through my USB drives which isn’t the fastest but is suitable for me to watch videos, listen to music, and do document sharing. The nice part being if I want to load up the drive faster, I can choose to unplug it from the NAS and plug it directly into the USB on my PC. I bought this to sub in for my Lacie NAS which the PSU seems to have shorted and am pretty happy with the purchase.
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|Pleasantly surprised,
I was amazed by just how easy this was to set up and use. Instructions are clear and easy to follow. Installed two 1TB drives and a Brother HL-2140 printer and was up and going within an hour. Most of the setup time was taken up in moving data that was already on the drives to a temp location so they could be reformatted to FAT32. Would have preferred NTFS, but I knew the limitation going in and I did not have the budget for a more expensive solution. If you prep your drives in advance, so they are already formatted (or ready to format), the install will take you about 5 minutes.
The iTunes server and Media servers work great. Have not tried the password protected file server or the web server.
The printer install was the biggest surprise. My old server stopped working so the fact that this product allowed me to network my external drives AND replace the print server was a huge plus. The original device setup was so convoluted and annoying, and the printer would never show up on my network. With the NUS1000 it was amazingly simple and it worked the first time I tried it. The instructions for Windows XP and Vista/Windows 7 made it easy to set up printing on all my PCs.
I’ve only had this running for a week, but so far it has exceeded my expectations.
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|Solid, Simplified Advice!,
Review Summary: The hardest thing for you to find is simple advice about which financial structure to use for self-employment and small business activities and how to balance cutting taxes, having flexibility, and avoiding asset exposure. This book is the best simple version of how to do all of this I have seen. You will obviously need experts to help you do your planning to match your needs, but this book will prepare you to work knowledgeably with those experts. Over a career as a small business owner, this book may be the most valuable one you will ever read.
Review: I am a big fan of Rich Dad, Poor Dad and wrote a review of that book that caused me to get a lot of e-mails asking tax-related questions. I am delighted to see this book because it means that those who wonder how developing passive income can cut taxes can start to understand why that occurs.
“Loopholes . . . are government incentives.” For many years, Congress has provided tax incentives to encourage certain kinds of business development and investing. As a small business owner, you have the opportunity to benefit from some of those incentives, legally and morally.
This book will be most valuable for those who know little about the structure of the income-tax code and regulations, how property is protected against legal suits, and ways of creating financial flexibility. The tools you can use differ from year to year, as the rules change. This book is good for explaining the general concept of how these rules usually work. It also tells you what kinds of advice and expertise you need from others. Most people don’t know where to start, and this book gives you a step-by-step process to assess where you are today, get the resources you need to help, evaluate a potential strategy, create a plan to implement a strategy, and monitor how well your strategy is working and whether you need to make any changes or not.
There is a tendency for popular books about business and investing to overpromise what can be accomplished. I thought that Ms. Kennedy avoided that problem. Based on my understanding of these issues, she describes things accurately and appropriately. When she gets into more problematical areas like VEBA, her cautions are well-stated and complete.
I have heard many people try to explain these concepts simply, and her explanation is the briefest, accurate one it has been my pleasure to read. Knowing more detail will not help you all that much.
The main drawback of the book is that it doesn’t go into enough detail about the advantages of real estate investing. Rich Dad, Poor Dad makes quite a point about how taxes paid can be low on such businesses. Basically, the answer is that you get to charge off part of your investment as an expense (depreciation) and that there are special incentives for specific classes of real estate that reduce tax bills even more. So I expect that I will still get e-mails about why Mr. Kiyosaki is so positive on real estate businesses.
After you finish reading and applying this book, I suggest that you think about how your family life should be structured for optimum happiness. If you think about that subject as much as you do the structure of your finances, you will truly be wealthy in all the ways that count.
Live life with rich spirituality!
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|Not only the rich pay less in taxes!,
I am continually amused when I hear people say that only the Rich get the tax breaks and the poor and the middle class have to “pick up the slack.”The fact is, if you are paying too much in taxes, whose fault is it? In this outstanding work, Lechter and Kiyosaki lay out numerous strategies to substantially reduce your taxes. And by the way, reducing taxes is not only morally and ethically right, it is also smart.The biggest expence we pay is taxes. Use this book to plug up the dike on excess tax spending.Other books I recommend are More Wealth Without Risk, Brilliant Deductions and How to Pay Zero Taxes in 2003.
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|Informative yet Easily Readable,
I started out my career as a highly compensated employee, but discovered that I was working at building a business for other people. I was also in a field (micro-electronics) that had a lot of highs and lows and I had gotten caught in a few lay-offs throughout the years. I made the decision to start building my own business. I was fortunate to find DKA (Diane’s CPA firm) and they were able to help me restructure my rental properties into a real business and take advantage of many of the loopholes described in this book. I think the timing for this book is excellent as we see more and more lay-offs happening in businesses. It’s no coincidence that there is a huge upsurgence in small and home based businesses at the same time. But, most small business owners are never taught how to take advantage of their businesses plus what it takes to have legal tax deductions. This book tells in simple, how to language how to find your own legal loopholes. It’s also quite entertaining to read the stories of what others have done (or should have done). If you are tired of paying too much in taxes and tired of worrying about protecting your assets, this is the book for you! Be prepared to get motivated to take action.
This is an excellent book for beginners as well as experienced business people. Great job Diane.
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