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Hitachi SimpleNET NAS adapter and USB drives announced

Chris Davies, Jul 13th 2009 Discuss [0]

Hitachi have announced a new range of simple USB hard-drives, together with a basic NAS adapter which can connect two external drives to a network. The SimpleDRIVE Mini and SimpleTOUGH portable USB drives are available in 250, 320 and 500GB capacities, with the former adding ruggedness and the latter basic colors. Read The Full Story

Synology Disk Station DS409slim ultra-compact 4-drive NAS

Ewdison Then, Jul 7th 2009 Discuss [0]

Careful where you pour that hot water: on the right is a 12oz coffee cup, while on the left is Synology's latest NAS, the 4-bay Disk Station DS409slim. Squeezing up to four 2.5-inch hard-drives into a 120 x 105 x 142 mm box, the DS409slim still offers up to 2TB of storage or various levels of RAID secure data redundancy. Read The Full Story

Western Digital My Book World Edition II NAS gets capacity boost, reviewed

Chris Davies, Jun 24th 2009 Discuss [0]

Western Digital have updated their My Book World Edition II NAS, boosting the dual-drive device to a total of 4TB. Two models will be available - 2TB and 4TB -each offering either RAID 0 or 1 setup for a choice of mirroring or striping. Read The Full Story

QNAP SS-439 Pro Turbo NAS offers RAID, server, more

Chris Davies, May 21st 2009 Discuss [0]

QNAP have announced their latest network-attached storage device, the four-bay SS-439 Pro Turbo NAS. Capable of establishing various levels of RAID array for up to 2TB of total capacity, the SS-439 is based on Intel's Atom N270 processor and offers media server, backup, print and web server functionality. Connectivity includes three USB 2.0 ports and two eSATA ports, which can be used to add more storage plus make removable backups, together with two gigabit ethernet connections. Read The Full Story

LaCie Big Disk Network and d2 Network with BitTorrent

Chris Davies, May 6th 2009 Discuss [0]

LaCie have announced two new storage servers intended for small workgroups. The LaCie Big Disk Network and d2 Network can each support up to 50 users (15 simultaneously), with the Big Disk having dual RAID 0 drives for up to 4TBs capacity, while the d2 Network has 1.5TB of its own storage plus an eSATA port for adding external high-speed drives. Read The Full Story

Reviews

Emtec Movie Cube S800 review

Chris Davies, Apr 7th 2009 Discuss [0]

With more people amassing vast collections of digital media, the demand for a straightforward way to pipe that out through an HDTV is only increasing. Emtec’s Movie Cube S800 not only offers video streaming, but expandable local storage, internet radio and dual TV tuners for recording fresh content or pausing live TV. SlashGear hooked it up to see if our home entertainment prayers had been answered.

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Iomega StorCenter ix2 NAS gets torrents & remote access

Chris Davies, Mar 17th 2009 Discuss [1]

Iomega have announced an update for their StorCenter ix2 NAS, bringing torrent downloads, remote access with optional custom domain names, folder quotas and native support for the Apple File Protocol (AFP). The StorCenter ix2 NAS itself is a compact storage device with gigabit ethernet, dual USB 2.0 ports and up to 2TB of capacity via a pair of SATA-II hard-drives. Read The Full Story

D-link ships DSN-1100, compact 5-Bay SAN storage solution for SMB

Daniel Lim, Mar 11th 2009 Discuss [0]

D-Link now shipping its new DSN-1100, a 5-Bay iSCSI Network Area Network (SAN) Array enclosure, offering up to a total of 7.5 Terabytes storage capacity for SMB Budget. The DSN-1100 is housed in a compact desktop chassis, built on the same System-on-a-Chip technology from company’s DSN-3000 family SAN arrays. It implements 4 one-gigabit ports and supports IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Groups (LAG) for full offload capability; all four ports can be grouped together, totaling up to 425MB/s bandwidth, to increase throughput and redundancy. The unit supports SATA-II drive and a host of Raid configuration from 0,1,1+0 and 5. Read The Full Story

ASUS EeeNAS PC: 2TB server, touchscreen & DVD

Chris Davies, Mar 3rd 2009 Discuss [0]

As well as netbooks, ASUS also brought along an Eee-branded backup device to CeBIT this week. The EeeNAS PC is billed as a 2TB network-attached storage device mated to a PC, with control via a 3.5-inch touchscreen on the front panel. Read The Full Story

Apple Time Capsule 1TB with dual-band WiFi-n

Chris Davies, Mar 3rd 2009 Discuss [0]

As well as their new Mac range, Apple have also updated their Time Capsule backup device. The new Apple Time Capsule 1TB has more storage than before, but also supports simultaneous dual-band 2.4GHz and 5GHz WiFi n. Read The Full Story

Addonics NASU2 USB drive network adapter reviewed: Simple, but rivals circle

Chris Davies, Jan 19th 2009 Discuss [0]

Addonics NASU2 NAS Adapter promises to be an easy, low-cost way to take a USB hard-drive and turn it into network-attached storage. The compact box, with a USB 2.0 port on one end and a 10/100 ethernet port on the other, was announced back in December; now Register Hardware have flipped it onto their review bench to see if it really is the $55 Holy Grail of simple networked storage. The good news? In many ways, it really is. Read The Full Story

DROP.IO launches a new DROP.IO Manager allowing companies to simply share files

Staff Editor, Jan 16th 2009 Discuss [0]

Private file sharing company drop.io, inc. has just announced a very simple file sharing solution that allows professionals in businesses or organizations to centrally manage and share large data files. Many people already use the drop.io service as a central hub for project content. The drop.io Manager extends the core sharing functionality by providing users with the ability to organize multiple drops from a single interface with many administrative, customization and privacy options. drop.io Manager is available in three different subscription options including Professional, Business and Enterprise. Read The Full Story