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NETGEAR Stora User Manual 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 handset. Stora can also be set up to automatically back up your data, saving it from loss. Store Stora allows you securely store all your digital media in one place and to upload content locally from a computer on the home network. You can back up any PC and Mac on your home network to Stora. The Desktop Mirror software automatically backs up selected folders on a regular basis. Backed up content is always available, even if a computer is turned off. See Chapter 2, "Stora Agent" for more information. Manage You can organize your digital media into shared FamilyLibrary folders or 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 3, "Stora Application" for more information. Share You can 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 via email or Facebook. See "Working with Albums" on page 70 for more information. Enjoy You can 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 EVA2000 and EVA9100/9150, 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. Print Connect a USB printer to Stora, and then share the printer with all the computers on your home network. See "Printer Option" on page 40. 6 | Chapter 1: Getting Acquainted

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Chapter 1:
Getting Acquainted
NETGEAR Stora User Manual
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 handset. Stora can also
be set up to automatically back up your data, saving it from loss.
Store
Stora allows you securely store all your digital media in one place and to upload content
locally from a computer on the home network. You can back up any PC and Mac on your
home network to Stora. The Desktop Mirror software automatically backs up selected folders
on a regular basis. Backed up content is always available, even if a computer is turned off.
See
Chapter 2, “Stora Agent"
for more information.
Manage
You can organize your digital media into shared FamilyLibrary folders or 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 3, “Stora Application"
for more
information.
Share
You can 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 via email or Facebook. See
“Working with Albums” on page 70
for more information.
Enjoy
You can 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 EVA2000 and EVA9100/9150,
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.
Print
Connect a USB printer to Stora, and then share the printer with all the computers on your
home network. See
“Printer Option”
on page 40.