Getting Started
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NETGEAR Stora
About NETGEAR Stora
NETGEAR Stora is a highly secure and stable home server that lets you collect, store,
manage, share, and enjoy your digital media content, including personal photos, music,
videos, and documents. It is easy to drag and drop digital media to Stora, catalog it into
folders, and share it by creating albums.
Stora is compatible with a wide range of hardware platforms and allows you to access your
content through digital media players on your home network, or from any computer in the
world through the web. You can even view your content on a mobile handheld device. You
can also set up Stora to automatically back up your content, saving it from data loss.
Stora offers the following functions:
•
Store
. Securely store all your digital media in one place and to upload content from a
computer on the home network. Use Stora to back up any PC and Mac on your home
network. The Desktop Mirror software automatically backs up selected folders on a
regular basis. Backed-up content is always available, even when the computer is turned
off. See
Chapter 4, Stora Agent
, for more information.
•
Manage
. Organize your digital media into shared FamilyLibrary folders or into the private
MyLibrary folders. After you upload a file, you can add a caption and tags to the file. Later
you can search for files that match the caption and tags. See
Chapter 5, Stora
Application
, for more information.
•
Share
. Create albums to share your digital media with family on your home network and
friends across the Internet. You can even share selected content with the public, while
keeping private media secure. For example, you can put the latest baby pictures in a
shared album, and let friends and family know they are available through email or
Facebook. See
Working with Albums
on page
77
for more information.
•
Enjoy
. Show digital media on computers and media players on your home network. The
media server built into your Stora makes content available to a wide variety of media
players that support standard network access, and the UPnP-AV, DLNA, or Windows
Media Connect standards. This way you can view photos through NETGEAR NTV250,
NTV350, NTV550, as well as an Xbox 360 or PS3 in the living room, while listening to
music through a networked sound system in the family room. See
Media Sources Area
on page
64
.
•
. Connect a USB printer to Stora, and then share the printer with all the computers
on your home network. See
Connect a Printer
on page
49.
