
Review Summary
The ZyXEL NSA221, DLNA 1.5-certified 2-Bay Media Server, supports multiple server technologies for multimedia sharing. Acting as an iTunes server, SqueezeCenter, personal blog and photo album server for PCs, laptops and SqueezeBoxes, the NSA221 can make it easy to stream and share music and photos.
Through an enhanced online "Package" management, advanced users can easily choose their preferred applications online. It can save your storage capacity for applications you require and offer you the real-time application software support per your needs.
With the user-friendly installation wizard, it's easy and simple to manage and backup media files. Through an intuitive user interface integrated with the media player, you can play music and photo slide shows directly from the NSA221. The NSA221 also allows you to create a music playlist and play it on the background for photo slide shows.
A newly designed alphabetical search bar provides you a more convenient way to search files within thousands of songs, photos and videos stored in the NSA221.
The zPilot file auto-classification function of the NSA221 enables you to easily store and manage media files through simple drag-and-drop operations. With the zPilot software installed through the NAS Starter Utility, you can drag one or more files/folders to the zPilot icon on the desktop and the files/folders will be identified and delivered automatically to music, photo, video or other designated folders on the NSA221; users can also easily check the upload status of data transmission.
The NSA221 provides a complete set of backup solutions for home and SOHO users. With the intelligent "Copy/Sync" button, the NSA221 makes it even easier to copy to or from external USB storage devices, card readers and digital cameras. In addition, the "Backup Planner" provides you with instant and scheduled backup services from the NSA221 to other ZyXEL or external USB mass storages. Using the simple setup steps, you can easily plan backup schedule according to personal needs. Furthermore, the advanced functions such as data compression and synchronization also optimize the bandwidth and time for data backup processes with better performance.