Stora makes home storage as easy as ABC!
At last, home network storage that’s easy to understand. Stora lets you access, backup and centralize your music, movies, photos and important files, even when away from home. Automate PC and Mac backups to eliminate data loss worries. Stora supports a second hard drive that mirrors the first, ensuring even greater reliability for those irreplaceable digital assets. Share photos and other digital media with family and friends across the Internet, and share them with network devices around your home like gaming consoles and media players. Unleash the power of your home network with Stora.
Access, Backup, Centralize
Stora puts music, photos, videos and other important data at the heart of your home network
- Centralize all your digital media (videos, music, photos) in a single, safe location
- Fast, stylish, easy to use browser based interface with embedded media player
- Easily access your Stora content from anywhere with an Internet connection
- Share photo and video albums with friends and family over the Internet
- Stream digital media around your home and play it on a range of devices including XBox®360, PS3 and compatible TVs
- Add a hard drive in minutes to protect your important data from hard disk failure or add extra capacity
- Optional Premum Services can even include handheld smart phones and additional online photo services like Flickr®!
Easy to Use
Experts need not apply. This system is designed for first-time users who don’t want to learn server administration as a hobby. Plug in the system, run the CD - that’s it. Now you can share data between home computers, automatically back them up, share photos over the web and access your content from other network devices. Even upload items to Facebook®!
Access your Stora from anywhere!
Connecting with your digital media and important files while away from home has never been easier!/p>
Enjoy content from Stora at home, while on the road
Connect over the Internet to play media from your personal library. Never be without the latest and greatest updates to your song lists, movies or photos!
Upload and download files with ease
Drag and drop from your laptop to your Stora from anywhere with an Internet connection. Download straight from your Stora - never be without the data you need again!
Plug-and-play Protection
Putting all of your precious data in one digital basket might be more than you want to risk. But don’t worry, because Stora supports a second hard drive to mirror the first. You can double your protection whenever you want. And you can do it on the fly, without copying or moving any data. Alternatively, you can use the second disk to add extra capacity without protection, when you need it. With Stora, the choice is yours.
Low Power Consumption, High Performance
Stora is not only quiet enough to live anywhere in the home and it’s designed for minimal power consumption while still delivering the high performance you need. Stora also has the ability to spin down its disks after a period of inactivity and has a power on/off timer so you can set it to shut down when it’s not needed to save even more power.
Unleash the power of your home network with Stora
Stream a movie to your games console. Download that important file from the airport. Play your music collection in your hotel room. Upload your pictures from the beach, then share them with your friends or Facebook®. Stora puts it all in your own hands!
Stora Premium Service
Take your Stora features to the next level with Stora Premium Service!*
Beyond Stora's ease of use and great features, you can also upgrade to Stora Premium* and add exciting new features including:
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Mobile Access - Access music from iPhone, upload pictures from Blackberry®, browse content on Windows® mobile phones and many more!
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Website Integration - Automatically upload pictures into Flickr. Use RSS feeds to keep your friends updated with your latest holiday photos.
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Cooliris Integration - View photos and media on the Cooliris 3D flying wall or display slideshows with ultra smooth animations and transitions.
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Unlimited Additional Users - Unlock the Stora experience for your family and friends with the ability to add more than three user accounts.
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Secure FTP - Looking to ensure your remote communications are lock down secure? Add FTPS to your Stora.
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Automatic Upgrades - Free upgrades for all new Stora Premium features during the subscription period.
*A free 30 day trial of Premium Services is included; thereafter an annual charge of $19.99 is applicable. Premium Services include: support for Flickr, Cooliris, RSS feeds, unlimited user accounts, enhanced remote access including web-enabled phones and future premium feature upgrades.
 
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Web Browsers Supported
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer™ 6.0+
- Netscape® Navigator™ 7.0
- Safari 1.22+
- Mozilla Firefox® 1.03+
General
- NETGEAR Stora Home Media Server for music, photos and videos
- Two (2) Serial ATA channels
- Compatible with SATA and SATA II HDD
- 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet
- USB 2.0 port
- Embedded 256 MB flash memory for OS
- Powerful processor for fast transfer speeds and smooth media streaming
- Supports Windows®, Mac®, Linux®/UNIX clients
- Setup wizard and easy browserbased interface
- Includes Stora Desktop Applications for Windows and Mac for automatic backups, easy connection and more
- RAID 1 Mirroring to protect against disk failure
- JBOD feature to unlock the total capacity of both drives (no protection)
Media Streaming
- DLNA certified
- Windows Media® 7 compliance
- Stora embedded media player support:
- Image: JPG, GIF, PNG
- Audio: MP3
- Video: MPEG-4 (H.264), MOV, FLV
- Other file types are supported by your PC’s browser and media player for either direct streaming or download and play
USB Device Support
- USB Printers
- USB hard disks, flash drives and digital cameras (View in your Stora interface or backup from Stora)
Green Features
- Ultra low Power consumption
- Energy Star compliant Power supply
- Disk spin down
- on/off power scheduler
Physical Specifications
- Dimensions: (H x W x D): 175.25 x 150 x 146 mm (6.90 x 5.91 x 5.74 in)
- Weight: 1.36 kg (3 lb)(without a hard disk)
Package Contents
- NETGEAR Stora
- 12V, 5A power adapter, localized to country of sale
- Power cable
- Ethernet cable
- Quick installation guide
- Warranty card
- Resource CD
1Basic technical support provided for 90 days from date of purchase.
*A free 30 day trial of Premium Services is included, which you can try at any time; thereafter an annual charge of $19.99 or equivalent in local currency is applicable. Premium Services include: support for Flickr, Cooliris integration, RSS feeds, unlimited user accounts, Secure FTP, remote access for iPhone, Blackberry and Windows Mobile phones and future premium feature upgrades. |
- Microsoft® Windows® Vista, XP Home or Pro (SP1 or SP2), Macintosh® OS X, Linux®
- Router (with DHCP enabled) and broadband connection required for installation and remote access features
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