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LaCie Wireless Space: the Sith’s Time Capsule

Chris Davies, Sep 16th 2010 Discuss [0]

LaCie has outed its latest external hard-drive, the Wireless Space, and while the Neil Poulton designed 1TB and 2TB drives may look a lot like the company's other blocky models, inside there's a whole lot of wireless goodness simmering away. The LaCie Wireless Space is a combination NAS, gigabit ethernet and WiFi b/g/n router, media server and network extender, basically the company's own version of the Apple Time Capsule. Read The Full Story

Pogoplug Now Supports Cloud Printing with New Firmware, Wireless Adapter and Biz Model Now Shipping

Evan Selleck, Aug 31st 2010 Discuss [1]

The Pogoplug keeps getting updated, and there's not a single bad spot in sight. This time around, with a brand new firmware that's being pushed out to the devices right now, the pink box will officially support plenty of features that the company previously made official over the last few months. One of the most exciting ones: cloud printing! Read The Full Story

Pogoplug gets WiFi b/g/n Wireless Extender; Pogoplug itself cut to $99

Satsuki Then, Aug 17th 2010 Discuss [1]

Pogoplug has launched a new WiFi adapter, the Pogoplug Wireless Extender, which allows users of the home NAS adapter to get online via a wireless network rather than stringing ethernet cable to their router. Up for preorder at $29, the Wireless Extender supports WiFi b/g/n. Meanwhile Pogoplug are also slashing the price of their eponymous device, down from $129 to $99. Find out how to get a free Pogoplug Wireless Extender after the cut Read The Full Story

Seagate GoFlex Home NAS promises easy media-sharing

Chris Davies, Jul 19th 2010 Discuss [0]

Seagate has outed its latest addition to the GoFlex family of removable storage, the Seagate GoFlex Home, a media and backup NAS designed for domestic use. Coming in a choice of 1TB or 2TB capacities, the GoFlex Home's storage can be easily upgraded since it uses the same SATA port connector as other drives in the range; you simply pull out the preinstalled drive and slot in a newer, bigger example. Read The Full Story

Synology DiskStation DS411+ and RackStation RS810+ promise superlative speed

Chris Davies, Jul 16th 2010 Discuss [0]

Synology has announced its latest network-attached storage offerings, the standalone DiskStation DS411+ and the rack-mounted RackStation RS810+ and RS810RP+. Targeted at high-end home users or SMBs, the new products prioritize speed of data access: Synology reckon owners will see average 112MB/sec read rates and around 106MB/sec write rates in RAID 5 configurations. Read The Full Story

Seagate BlackArmor NAS 400 backup & media server unveiled

Chris Davies, Jul 14th 2010 Discuss [1]

Seagate has outed its latest NAS, the BlackArmor NAS 400, and they're quite excited about the possibilities its four hard-drive bays offer to homes and small businesses. The compact, unassuming box can be outfitted with regular 3.5-inch SATA II HDDs or, Seagate suggests, their Momentus XT hybrid, with RAID 0/1/5/10 & JBOD configurations possible. Read The Full Story

Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 4 and Ultra 6: TiVo streaming, RAID and more

Chris Davies, Jul 9th 2010 Discuss [0]

Netgear has outed a pair of new NAS boxes, the ReadyNAS Ultra 4 and ReadyNAS Ultra 6, packing up to 12TB of storage together with TiVo and Orb compatibility. The new media functionality means that TiVo owners will be able to use the new ReadyNAS Ultra units to stream content stored on the mini-server, together with Orb and DLNA compliant kit. Read The Full Story

Silicon Power Armor A80 USB 3.0 portable hard drive unveiled

Shane McGlaun, May 31st 2010 Discuss [0]

Silicon Power has unveiled a new external portable hard drive called the Armor A80. The new HDD uses a USB 3.0 interface and is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 as well. The HDD is rugged, meets US military standards for drop survivability, and is water resistant to IPX7 standards. Read The Full Story

Reviews

Clickfree C2N Review

Chris Davies, Apr 28th 2010 Discuss [1]

Backup – we’ve called it an ugly, boring chore before and it remains a necessary evil. We’ve also called Clickfree’s products an ideal way to address that chore before too, and with their latest drive – the Clickfree C2N – the company reckon they’ve managed to make running backups on all your home or small office systems even more straightforward. At the risk of sounding like a bad X-Files plot, that’s something we want to believe; check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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Reviews

Pogoplug v2 Review

Chris Davies, Apr 22nd 2010 Discuss [4]

Network-attached storage is seldom eye-catching, rarely interesting and not normally cheap, and in that sort of market the Pogoplug is guaranteed to stand out. Currently in its second generation – with a fair few software upgrades along the way – the bright pink box promises to take regular USB hard drives and have them shared across a network for both local and remote access within minutes. Too good to be true? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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Drobo FS “File Server” is NAS version of Drobo S [Video]

Chris Davies, Apr 6th 2010 Discuss [0]

Only yesterday we were singing the praises of the Data Robotics Drobo S, perfect if you need local, redundant storage for your workstation, and today the company have outed their NAS version. The Drobo FS - or "Drobo File Server" - takes the Drobo S and swaps that model's USB/eSATA/FireWire for an gigabit ethernet port on the back, meaning you can share files protected using its BeyondRAID system across your network. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story