Seagate - Central 2TB Personal Cloud Storage External Hard Drive (NAS) - Black

Pros: Easy to set up compared to other network attached storage devices (NAS). Shares are easy to create and password protected; each user can have their own shared folder. Cheap, easy to use NAS and backup device. Best for someone with lots of movies, photos, documents and apps they plan on sharing with the family. Cons: If you give another user access to your share they have access to ALL your folders/files. You can't set permissions for access to some folders but not other. Not so good for maintaining privacy. Also, Windows makes it very difficult to access more than one share - on the same drive - at a time, even if you map each share to a different drive letter (it can be done but plan on spending time reading the documentation).

2TB of media on this Seagate Central STCG2000100 personal Cloud storage external hard drive, offers the same easy solution to shared digital library and access it securely over the Internet. Note: the admin guides illustrate a different external access vendor...which took a few minutes to find new vendor solutions. The access email from creation via RJ45 network setup...is not personalized to giving other access accounts for remote logon. You should inform the enduser...as most will delete the email. performance and remote access is based on your IPS connection speeds...so larger PIC, Video & music files can be slow to render if you on a 20mb down and 5mb up. For a start, remote access drive this is a nice solution, supports smart TV's media sync - However there is only a 4 user access max. Before you are charged extra money per remote access user creation. - Users can allow access to public data for friends and Family. Note: USB - to USB connector did not come with the product, only the RJ45 connector was included

I purchased this item after I returned a previous non seagate device. I have always purchased seagate hard drives in the past and I know they will last and work properly for as long as I have them. This device performs outstandingly and is easily accessible from any device anywhere. I can stream movies and music perfectly from this device on my tv using chrome cast.