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  • Noontec N5 Gigalink a year later

    It’s just over a year since I got my first Noontec N5 Gigalink, as per the post talking about it previously here.

    I did upgrade the firmware, but things from that point for me didn’t go well. As the new firmware changed the UI in some major way, for the better I would think, however the stability of the device for me was terrible. It didn’t work as well as the existing factory firmware, and I couldn’t find any copy of the old firmware to even put back on.

    The unit has pretty much sat in cupboard the last 7 odd months and not been used since.

    In my honest opinion, I think the unit is pretty crap post firmware upgrade. Maybe I expect to much from it. Either way, I don’t use it any more.

    If anyone can tell me where/how to get the original firmware, as noted below, I’d love to put it back on it.

    It shipped with firmware;

    J1.02K3_L1.04T Ver: 1.1.8_USB2.0_(CN36)

  • Noontec N5 Gigalink Firmware info

    As discussed in one of my previous posts here. I own a Noontec N5 Gigalink single drive NAS. It’s not the greatest thing around, but for what it does do well (basic file sharing) it does the job. I don’t use any other features of the unit, just simply the file sharing side of it.

    I wish I never upgraded the firmware, as the one that it shipped with had a much more basic UI for administration, however the newer firmwares you find may be TerraMaster branded, which I honestly don’t like. Although TerraMaster make a unit based off the N5, I just like it to remain Noontec branding.

    I found that the firmware available at the page here, is a recent Noontec branded one. So I have installed it and will be using it for now. It is version as per below;

    NAS-1Bay-N5_J1.05A_Ver2.35_USB2.0.bin

    NOTE: The direct link above to Noontec site may disappear over time. Should it do so, I have zipped up a copy and made it available from my site below;

    NAS-1Bay-N5_J1.05A_Ver2.35_USB2.0.zip (From: static.heimic.net)

  • Noontec N5 Gigalink Firmware

    Looks like my Noontec N5 Gigalink came with a firmware revision of;

    J1.02K3_L1.04T Ver: 1.1.8_USB2.0_(CN36)

    While it appears a newer one is available, as per the blog post here.

    I might update mine, as I am curious to see how they improved it. Although the firmware I am running I haven’t had any issues with. Even got static ip address working fine, however it was a bit of a fumble around to work out where to set it.

    I think the Web UI needs a bit of study and changes for usability. Not sure who designed it, but its pretty much all over the place for arrangement of features/settings.

  • Noontec N5 Gigalink NAS Review

    I posted my thoughts on the Noontec N5 Gigalink NAS over at my corporate blog. You can read more about it here.

    Still think its an okay unit for a simple CIFS share with a single drive.