LG NAS N4B1N
The LG N4B1N Diskless System 4 Bay Super Multi NAS with Built-in Blu-ray Rewriter has four SATA drive bays supporting up to 4TB storage capacity. The NAS comes with a Marvell 88F5281 500MHz processor.
The LG N4B1N supports multiple RAID 0, 1, 5, 1+0 and JBOD volumes, and an on-board LCD screen on the top gives you timely status information of the NAS. A memory card reader on the front panel supports SD, MMC, MS and xD cards for ultra-versatility.
It can be expanded by attaching extra drives to the three USB 2.0 ports. Or, plugging in a printer and share it across the network. An on-board eSATA interface provides data transfer speed of up to 3Gb/s.
It uses Linux Kernel 2.6 with Samba.
Features
- Built-in Blu-Ray ReWriter for additional data backup option & protection
- Hot Swappable and Lockable Trays
- LCD Display shows important information and alerts
- Built-in Memory Card Reader (SD, MMC, MS, xD)
- Remote Access/Multiple User Access
- Network Print Server Support
- Built-in FTP Server Functionality
- Active Directory Support
- Various User Management with Security (Users, Group, Folder)
- Auto Sync. Back Up Support
- iTunes Music Server Support
- One Touch USB/Memory Copy & Synchronized Backup
- Journaled File System
- Quiet Device Operation
- Low Power Consumption
- RoHS Compliant
Support
The LG NAS N4B1N on Newegg.com (discontinued/out of stock).
LG Product Support for N4B1N. The product information and support is not available on the LG United States site, but is available in the LG Canada English site. This product may not have been intended for the U.S. market, however, Newegg.com sold it to U.S. customers. The LG N4B2N and N4B2ND4 are the U.S. products similar to the N4B1N.
recovering deleted files and folders
The massive 26.9 MB 157 page PDF user guide has next to no information on how to recover accidentally deleted files and folders. For this reason, LG gets low marks on documentation.
On page 82 of the user guide (Product Manual) there is a breakdown of the LG NAS Share Management web interface for folders. Item number 7 mentions a "trash box" in passing. "Create a trash box within the folder. When deleting data while the trash box is active, all the deleted files will go to ‘trash box’ folder within the shared folder." And that is all that is written on the subject of undelete / data recovery of files and folders in the entire user guide.
Fortunately, the option to have a trashbox is enabled by default for shares you create. The trashbox is like the Windows recycling bin, but is not directly compatible with the Windows recycling bin.
What is interesting is that the user guide refers to it is the "trash box" and on the actual NAS file system it is called "trashbox," yet in the web interface it is labeled "Recycle Bin."
Any time you delete a file or folder (while at the keyboard of a windows machine) from a share on the NAS device, the files and/or folders are moved into the trashbox folder on the root of the share.
