RE: NAS Review With Photos & Screenshots

["Mark McCall" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Now on Digg...please help by DIGGing our story here...

http://www.digg.com/hardware/Cheap_Home_NAS_with_Photos_Screenshots

Thanks

M.

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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]=20
> On Behalf Of Mark McCall
> Sent: 25 September 2006 10:13
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] NAS Review With Photos & Screenshots
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> What is a NAS?
> NAS stands for Network-Attached Storage. Basically just a box=20
> with a hard drive (or multiple drives) which plugs into your=20
> LAN to provide additional storage which can be accessed by=20
> users on the network.=20
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> Why Do You Need a NAS?
> Most of us are gathering more and more digital media =96 MP3s,=20
> Movies and Photos. Domestic networks are becoming common=20
> place now as many of us have more than one PC at home. This=20
> combination of factors makes it very desirable to have a=20
> large central storage device on your LAN, that can be=20
> accessed by all the machines in the house whether PC, Mac or=20
> Linux, and externally via the Net as we'll see later. If you=20
> currently have a PC running 24/7 then it's a certainty that=20
> using this NAS will save you money as a dedicated PC based=20
> fileserver can cost more than you probably realise to run. We=20
> measured the unit using a tiny 18 Watts during sustained=20
> reading and writing, compared to around 150 watts for a=20
> modern PC. If you were to run both devices 24/7 the annual=20
> running cost for the NAS would be around =A317.00 compared to=20
> around =A3145.00 for the PC...
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> http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/article1759.html
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> M.
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