NASLite Network Attached Storage

Will downloading each new version reduce my number of downloads by one?

it sure will. if you happy with the current build you could wait a little longer and get the next one.

i can see the advantages of download count but IMHO it should be reset at each release within the time period.

however saying this unless one is released each month (which is very unliekly) i suppose no one should really hit it anyway.

If the download count is to save bandwidth then a website image review along with a change to a lighter forum would likely have way more of an impact.

Anyhow just my 2p

I'm happy with the original release at the minute, that's why i asked. None of the fixes in the 2.01 release affect me, so i'll wait a bit.
Thanks for the replies.

willsy,

be aware that one important fix is the filesystem repair.

This is only my second post. I do not understand the download limit count either. The only reason I would need to redownload is to upgrade the product. It certainly has nothing to do with controlling piracy of the product. The limited download count would certainly have nothing to do with that.

When a bug is discovered and fixed, resulting in an a update being release, It seems unfair that this should somehow count against the download count. This could quickly turn into having customers pay for bug fixes if the product is updates often. This may not be the case, because the product appears very stable, but it is certainly a different model. A service contract is usually limited to a specific time period. OK, 6 month in this case, why limit the download count? Is it because of fear that the product is being pirited from the download site? Surely there are ways to know if downloads from an account are being abused. And that really does not make sense to me as a way to fight piracy if that is the reason.

I'm all for supporting a great product like this. But if the reason for the release is a bug fix (consider how quickly 2.00 was upgraded to 2.01), seems to be a poor business decision if that counts against the download count.

I agree with others, the count should be reset per minor version revision. Make the max download per minor version revision to 2 or 3. That seems like the fair thing to do.

Manny

NASLite+ v1.0 was released in January 2005. It's almost August 2006 and the current version is 1.5. Why would anyone need more than 6 downloads in a 6 month period?

NASLite-2 USB v2.01 is a maintenance release that corrected a small number of items that slipped by the beta testers. We do not plan to make a release every month. It is my opinion that making frequent releases is rather irresponsible for a product such as NASLite.

I think that our reasoning and position regarding downloads has been discussed many times in the past. We don't see a reason for a change, but since it's up for discussion again, I'll ask again: Has anyone had any problems in the past with the 6 downloads and if so can you explain why?

Tony i agree with you whole heartidly... this is so conceptual its almost not worth discussing.

perhaps you could just say....

if we had more than 2-3 releases in a 6 month period we would do xx and yy.
But since thats very likely never to happen please consider the matter closed.


And that would be that

I wasn't complaining about the download count, it's just that i would like one or two in reserve in case i needed them (my cautious nature, i always like a reserve).

OK, I have a problem with the download limit:
- I purchased 2.03 USB version in December and downloaded it then
- I attempted to download 2.04 yesterday. What I got was a file download.html.php (I think was the name)
- Thinking that maybe the SE site doesn't work well with Firefox I tried to download again using IE and got an error that I had exceeded the limit.

I'm not sure but I mave have had troubles downloading the first time, too. That might be where some of the "downloads" went.

So, in essence, I've only gotten one successful download out of the 6 I'm allowed.

I've also emailed SE separately to try to work out what happened.

The max is now 15. That should be sufficient even for worst case scenarios.

Thanks for upping the limit. I successfully downloaded it using IE.

Any idea why Firefox seems to have a problem? I normally use FF to download files all the time but occasionally have seen a similar problem at other sites.

I'm almost at the 15 limit because I use Opera- I left the download page tab in my session, so for awhile every time I opened Opera when it refreshed I got hit with another count...

Oh well, probably won't hit 2.05 before six months is up. Still love Opera, still happy to with NASLite.

...I do wish it was 12 months of upgrades...

-Dan