Or you can use the zPilot software. Here is the description of the software:
The zPilot™ auto file classification function of the NSA320 enables you to easily store and manage media files through simple drag-and-drop operations. With the zPilot™ software installed via the NAS Starter Utility, you can drag one or more files/folders onto the desktop icon of zPilot™, and the files/folders will be identified and delivered automatically to the music, photo, video or other designated folders on the NSA320; users can easily check the data upload status during the process.
When you run it, you see an icon on the screen – just drag and drop your media files onto the icon.
The files will then be copied to your NSA320 – and you can monitor the progress.
The icon changes to show activity.
Another way of getting media onto the NSA320 is by using a USB drive. You can just plug in the drive into the NSA320 and press the front button to start the transfer of files. You can select where the files are copied do within the various menu options.
Copy files using USB was very simple.
There is also a web based player. You can choose what you want from the menu options, such as playing back music.
You can select your views as well.
And see information about what is being played.
Final Thoughts
All in all this is a good little box that offers a lot for the price. It can be a media server, an FTP server, a print server, and so much more. It is small and sits nicely in the corned tucked out of the way.
I found it very easy to setup and use, and didn’t experience any problems.
A couple of points to note – I felt that the front of the NSA320 was very “plasticy” and that if you put too much force into removing the cover it could break. It is only held together with a very tiny piece of plastic, which if it broke, would cause you a few issues!
Also, the NSA320 got very hot, very quickly. After only being on for a few minutes, the temperature was 41.3 degrees C (or 106.34 degrees F). And that was with only one drive in. I monitored the temperature for a few hours and it pretty much stayed the same. Personally I am never really happy with any of my devices being that hot and staying that hot!
Price wise, the NSA320 retails for around £135, which makes it very good value for money (yes, you do have to add hard drives, but drives are very cheap at the moment).
Hmm, a very interesting box, thanks for the detailed review.
i have one of these bad boys.
very good indeed and extremely easy to set up.
I have this and what can I say it offers everything and works like a charm and is quite easy to set up. I get transfer rates of 85mbs with 2 seagate drives.
I have been using the NSA320 for about a year and find it to be a very good device. The fact that it is inepensive is also nice. The only thing negative I have run across is the feature for putting the drives to sleep will break the RAID configuration if one of the included drives in the array is an external drive. The solution: Don’t use that feature 🙂
All other servers/functions work extremely well so far in whatever way I have chosen to use them.
I am on the second one of these and neither has worked at all. In each case the server will not initialize despite following the instructiuons (as far as it goes anyway) to the letter. Any ideas what the problem might be? I’m trying to install this using a win 7 PC….
I’d also add that not only have I had two units that don’t work AT ALL, not even a tiny bit, but Zyxel support is about as useful as a chocolate teapot. Their only suggestion so far is press the factory reset button.
OK so the support people sent me a link to some update firmware.. Result? Zero. I can’t believe I’m just unlucky, so where do all their good reviews come from??
Use ip address of nas box login in via web as admin go to volume on side window at the end of listed volume you will see a delete volume then re create it should work i had this problem it kept telling me the disk was down.
Absolutely amazing device. However anyone know why anytime i try to back up an external hard drive to it that it always stops at 279gb and 720 folders? red light becomes solid at the USB section and i press it again and it starts agin but from the begining and finishes at the same bit again. WOuld be great if all i had to transfer was 279gb but i need to transfer 1.4TB :(( any help or advice would be great