Developed as early as the 1980s, Solid State Drives (SSD) have, primarily because of cost, been largely restricted to military applications and critical enterprise activities requiring enhanced transaction performance for large databases and other similar demanding applications. This situation in now changing with cost reductions bringing SSD to a price point where they are now beginning to enter the general consumer computing and electronics market.
The Iomega StorCenter ix2 is an interesting twin SATA hard disk drive (HDD) network attached storage (NAS) device which doesn’t fit the usual NAS product features profile but, does provide some unique capabilities.
Linksys’s NAS200 Network Attached Storage (NAS) System offers twin SATA hard disk drive (HDD) bays for safely backing up your expanding collection of personal multimedia and application files. The HDD are not included so it is up to the purchaser to decide what storage capacity to install. The NAS200 is an independent […]
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Developed as early as the 1980s, Solid State Drives (SSD) have, primarily because of cost, been largely restricted to military applications and critical enterprise activities requiring enhanced transaction performance for large databases and other similar demanding applications. This situation in now changing with cost reductions bringing SSD to a price point where they are now beginning to enter the general consumer computing and electronics market. The iPhone and iPod are in fact already based on SSD technology.
The solid state semiconductor technology of an SSD is similar to the familiar Secure Digital (SD) card found in digital camera. Unlike conventional hard disk drive (HDD) with rotating platters and a moving arm, an SSD has no moving parts. An SSD also requires no power retain data which can persist for up to 10 years. (read more..)
The Linksys by Cisco NMH405 (500 GB) and NMH410 (1 TB) Media Hubs provide home entertainment storage as well as being intelligent storage and file server devices. In addition to the provision of secure storage the units provide a useful utility for accessing and streaming your digital music, photos, and videos.
The Linksys by Cisco NMH305 Media Hub for home entertainment storage is and intelligent storage and file server device. As well as providing secure storage it provides a convenient way to access and stream your digital music, photos, and videos. To save time and effort on your behalf it will scan and aggregate media from your PCs and other storage devices once connected to the same network (10/100/1000 gigabit ethernet). Other storage devices can also be connected via one of the two USB ports.
The Linksys NMH305 has twin SATA interface hard disk drive (HDD) bays, one containing a pre-installed 500 GB, green-power hard disk drive with the second empty for an upgrade if/when required. The NMH305 supports RAID1 and JBOD storage configurations. To help ensure that essential backup operations take place Linksys by Cisco include automatic backup software (NTI Shadow) for making backup copies of your all important family photos, music, videos and other essential documents. (read more..)
The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) consists of a collaborating group of over 250 of the world’s leading consumer electronics, mobile device and PC manufacturers. DLNA certified products are designed to allow you to share digital content over a network regardless of which brand you may be using. DLNA certified devices will connect, discover and communicate with each other over a network.
Popcorn Hour’s A-110 is an enhanced version of the very popular A-100 model which has been regarded as a bargain for the included functionality. With the A-110 you can import digital video, audio and photos to enjoy on your HDTV or projector/home theatre. The Popcorn Hour A-110 has a lot of versatility being part Digital Media Player, Network Attached Storage (NAS) and a Server. The versatility is possible due to its powerful, highly integrated Sigma SMP8635 decoding chipset.
Improvements of the A-110 vs the A-100 include;
Support for 2.5/3.5 inch SATA HDD and USB slave functionality (improved connectivity and transfer rates)
The FreeAgent Go USB 2.0 is preformatted for Windows and preloaded with Seagate Manager for automatic Plug-n-Play installation. For those with a Mac, there is a Seagate FreeAgent Go for Mac. The FreeAgent Go is a portable external HDD (5400 rpm) storage solution for your photos, music videos and personal digital documents. Backing up is a much more favourable alternative to hard drive data recovery.
Being compact and portable the FreeAgent Go can be used by those on the move to save personal settings and data (such as favorites, passwords, IM client and contacts, email client, cookies and custom settings) for use on other computers. Saving your personal data to an external drive can be an excellent protection against unauthorized access as can the available encryption. (read more..)
The FreeAgent Go for Mac is preformatted to work with a Mac operating system (Time Machine-ready) which is more convenient than buying one formatted for Windows and re-formatting it yourself. The FreeAgent Go for Macs look attractive and sleek but come in only one color – silver.
As well as being a storage solution for your photos, music videos and personal digital documents the FreeAgent Go for Mac external HDD (5400 rpm) is very compact and portable so you it can be used by those on the move to save personal settings and data (such as favorites, passwords, IM client and contacts, email client, cookies and custom settings) for use on other computers. Saving your personal data to an external drive can be an excellent protection against unauthorized access as can the available encryption. (read more..)
Western Digitals’s My Book Studio Edition II is identical to the recently reviewed WD My Book Studio Edition apart from;
being RAID enabled,
having a 2TB capacity model available and
being upgradeable by replacing the HDD (without any tools).
Like the Studio Edition this model is formatted for a Mac operating system. A 2TB external HDD storage unit is not that common. To give an idea of what this storage capacity means, consider that it is possible to store up to 571,000 photos, 150 hours of video or 500,000 songs. (read more..)
Western Digital’s (WD) My Book Studio is a well featured model in WD’s desktop external hard disk drive (HDD) series. It’s important to note upfront that this external HDD is preformatted and loaded with backup and management software suitable for a Macintosh operating system (Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later). A driver and utilities for Windows users is available for download.
It is the high speed eSATA (3 Gb/s), which approaches the transfer speed of an internal HDD, and FireWire 800 (98Mb/s) interfaces which should attract those who deal with lots of large image and video files and want a quick response time from their external storage. The wide range of available storage capacities (320GB to 1 TB) should suit a wide spectrum of users. (read more..)
