Comments on: Edimax NS-2502 review

By: fpm

fpm — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:00:13 +0000

I agree. This product is crap. I bought it to replace my Linux file server (in order to save some money on electricity) since it is on 24/7. I could never get the Backup feature to work. After contacting Edimax various times with no answer I decided to get my Linux server back on. Now I use the NAS at home to share my movies and music on the network since it is the only thing I got to do OK. I also noticed that with 2 hard drives installed you can fry eggs on them… Poor ventilation…

By: axel

axel — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:58:50 +0000

I have had this drive running for 2 years with both sets of firmware. All I can say is dont buy this piece of s@it. Save up a bit more money and get a synology … this crap is simply poring money down a drain. Its performance sucks.

By: Sorin

Sorin — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:13:43 +0000

Is not a crappy review is a fair review and quite usefull, wish I have read it before buing this product. The noise and the ligths are as described.

By: Williep

Williep — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:46:48 +0000

Hi alecs,

I already desided to connect the HDD to my windows laptop. But because it is ext2 formatted, i could not see the drive. Then started i my laptop with a Knoppix cd.
i could mount the HDD and copy the data to a spare HDD. So i am ok again. Thanks for your time.

By: alecs

alecs — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:04:50 +0000

@Williep
You should see RAID in Tools > Storage Tools.
I believe when you select to create RAID 1 you are asked if you want to copy HDD1 to HDD2 or vice versa (which is the same thing if you had RAID 1 before).
If you don’t see anything like this then you may want to connect the HDD to the PC and back up everything.

By: Williep

Williep — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 14:35:52 +0000

Hi Alecs,

I just upgraded my Edimax 2502 with the planex firmware 1.3.6tw. Everyting was going well until i wanted to get my raid1 back. You, and the manual, talk about rebuilding without losing data. I only have the choise format or not. I dont see any option that will preserve my existing data.

Any idee?

Regards

Willie

By: alecs

alecs — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:52:13 +0000

@Renato try setting the router to give addresses starting with 192.168.1.*
Did you do the reset to factory settings thing after updating the firmware?

@sysmac I’m afraid I can’t help you here.

Try the forum at http://forum.edimax.pl/ (post a thread in English and hope someone is kind enough to answer)

By: sysmac

sysmac — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:54:30 +0000

Any idea how to access as “network drive” on XP. I can see without problem on Win7. Can only see sometimes on XP.

Regards
John

By: Renato

Renato — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:31:32 +0000

Ehm.. any help ? i just tried to upgrade with the last firmware from planex.. but now after a reset my nas wont’ work at all.. the power led of the nas keep flashing.. any suggestion ?
i’m unable to connect to the nas.. i’m going mad :|

By: richt

richt — Sun, 23 May 2010 20:43:55 +0000

Wow, so wish i had read this review first, the firmware on this thing really is rubbish.
Aparently its “linux compatible” but it has no NFS (cifs is a windows thing that Linux _can_ be compatible with)

You can create permissions for shares, but each one is read or write access per share not per user??

Its a Linux device but it forces you to call the share ‘C:/’ WTF?

I have updated to the latest firmware (1.4.2) but this is only available on the .jp site and the support site is only in polish.

I would strongly recoment to every one, pay the extra 10% for a better device. Edimax sux!