Can you confirm that this device does not ship with any hard drive, and that a hard drive must be purchased in order for this to be functional?
1961448
correct, it does not ship with a harddrive but this is a really good nas and ordering a harddrive separate is only a small cost
390155
an iPad doesn't have a hard drive... but the answer is NO. The device works as it says -- very effective (surprising!). It's a deal
277031
No it does not come with a hard drive. You have to buy one. You can get a cheap one that fits in a desktop compute for under 50 dollars.
713396
Yes CLarence this unit didn't come with a hard dirve. I went and bought a used 80 gig harddrive at the Goodwill store only to find that the unit had to have a 500Gig minimum drive to operate correctly. So I returned it and bought a new 500 gig drive. It works well now.
2025537
No. There is an extremely over priced hard drive you can buy for it though.
1676490
Janice, yes you would need to get a hard drive, but you don't need to get 2, the system will work with one!
1879836
I don't have this hard drive yet, they have not sent it back to me. But it is not a network storage device, it connects to your computer via firewire or USB. At least that's what it should do.
235916
It does not ship with any hard drive. There is documentation about drives that are supported on the net gear website. I put a 500GB western digital first time and it worked perfectly.
582382
This comes with no hard drive. You need to buy a mSATA SSD. Note it is the mSATA, not the usual size you would have for your notebook or your desktop.
791064
No it's not correct. It does not have a hard drive at all. It has a solid state drive (SSD) that starts I believe at 256gb and goes out to 1 terabyte.
228612
You have to buy the hard drives separately. If you want to have anything but a paperweight.
2247556
There is a model that comes with a hard drive, but we chose to buy the model without one. We purchase a larger hard drive separately from Amazon. System works great!
1687434
There is no disc drive in this model. We are going to use an external disc drive if we absolutely need one.
2198665
It does not come with a hard drive. It only has the installation bay for one up to 2TB.
1773042
No, it is a bare drive. I used a usb2IDE appliance and Clonezilla, a free OpenSource download.
1822531
The unit I purchased came with a 500GB HDD. I don't know if it's offered with other options.
2103210
"Drive Only" is a bare hard drive. A "resellers kit" contains the drive, SATA cable, etc.