NAS Review With Photos & Screenshots

["Mark McCall" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What is a NAS?
NAS stands for Network-Attached Storage. Basically just a box with a hard
drive (or multiple drives) which plugs into your LAN to provide additional
storage which can be accessed by users on the network.=20

Why Do You Need a NAS?
Most of us are gathering more and more digital media =96 MP3s, Movies and
Photos. Domestic networks are becoming common place now as many of us have
more than one PC at home. This combination of factors makes it very
desirable to have a large central storage device on your LAN, that can be
accessed by all the machines in the house whether PC, Mac or Linux, and
externally via the Net as we'll see later. If you currently have a PC
running 24/7 then it's a certainty that using this NAS will save you money
as a dedicated PC based fileserver can cost more than you probably realise
to run. We measured the unit using a tiny 18 Watts during sustained reading
and writing, compared to around 150 watts for a modern PC. If you were to
run both devices 24/7 the annual running cost for the NAS would be around
=A317.00 compared to around =A3145.00 for the PC...

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M.






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