So here we have the NetDisk Mega with all of its accessories. Klegg even included a CAT5e and USB cable to get you started in external hard drive bliss. As this is a high performance/capacity unit, it will require a separate power supply, which of course accompanies the unit. While most external hard drives have USB drivers on a CD for pre "Windows XP" desktop machines, this CD contains the software necessary to set the unit up on your network. We'll get more into that as we look at the units NAS capabilities.

     For starters, we're just going to plug-in and start using the drive as a USB attached external. As expected, the Windows XP based PC recognized the unit and assigned it a drive letter.

     Just to get some baseline numbers, here is what HD Tach thought of the Netdisk Mega. An average transfer rate of 33.7 Megabytes per second with a random access seek time of 13.6 milliseconds. The burst transfer rate was measured at 35.3 Megabytes per second.

      Sisoftware's Sandra Physical Disk benchmark shows the drive (indexed with red) compared against four other devices. The Netdisk Mega was able to hover its transfer rate around the 31Megabyte/second mark. These are all very solid numbers for the USB interface, right on par with what I would expect to see from a dedicated USB external hard drive.