Long, long ago I bought a Noontec “media player/NAS” as it looked to be possibly useful as a music player … and was cheap. I never got #aroundtuit with respect to making it useful at home, and it ended up in yet another box hidden away. Poking about at it recently to try and resurrect it, and …
The thing is eight years old, it never worked when new and I can find no updated firmware for it. The most entertaining part of it is a blog post from 2015 describing the woeful experience someone had with one, including the cockroaches inside on delivery. That and SMB1, I suspect it is well past any pretence of a useful life. Perhaps I can drag it into the 21st century as a poor-man’s emergency USB drive, but that’ll be all.
I’ve come to the conclusion that I really can’t use it for much; but do I keep it as an external drive enclosure (with one of the random 3.5" disks that are also lying around), keep it as a vaguely useful box-with-a-power-supply, or do I get rid of it?
