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David S.

David S.

Joined on 01/23/04

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Most Critical Review

Jury is still out, but it's not looking good

IAdea XMP-6200 1080p Solid-State Network Digital Signage Media Player
IAdea XMP-6200 1080p Solid-State Network Digital Signage Media Player

Pros: Displays PowerPoint slides and videos with audio well. Scheduler works well.

Cons: Constantly goes offline & loses Wi-Fi connectivity. Player still operational. Software documentation poor for building a "playlist". Once I figured it out, very nice implementation. Unable to get audio with PowerPoint slides. Documentation indicates it should work with PowerPoint. Unable to get text ticker to work.

Overall Review: I am continuing to work closely with IAdea Support. They have sent me a beta version of the software. It's made no difference from the released version. I have sent Debug logs as well. Apparently no support in Continental USA. All my replies to support come in after midnight.

Disappointed with reliability

Western Digital WD Green WD20EARX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital WD Green WD20EARX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: I had a pair of these installed in a Synology DS211j NAS box running RAID 1. The box would run 6 hours per day (automatic power schedule). The data was backups of 4 computers & my music library on a Synology DS110j NAS box. Drives were not used much. WD replaced the bad drive under warranty.

Cons: One drive in the mirror set started to fail - block errors. I ordered a pair of 4TB drives and replaced both 2TB drives and grew the array at the same time. After reading similar reviews, I don't think I want to use these drives again

Overall Review: The Synology software allowed me to replace the bad 2TB drive with a 4TB drive. When the rebuild was done, I replaced the good 2TB drive with the other new 4TB drive. When that rebuild was complete, the array was expanded to use the entire 4TB space. Sweet!

10/22/2013