Western Digital Elements 1 TB, 750GB, 640GB and 500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Review

The Western Digital Elements external hard disk drive (HDD) is the entry level model of the WD external desktop series. It has a USB 2.0 connection and is preformatted for immediate use. The WD Elements external HDD is PnP (Plug-n-Play) so there is no setup required. The Elements HDD has a […]

Toshiba 160GB, 250GB, 320GB, 400GB and 500GB Portable External Hard Disk Drive Review

Toshiba Portable External 2.5 inch hard drive series is a brightly colored, glossy range of portable external HDD covering a wide range of capacities from 160GB to 500GB intended to suit households that need to back up and protect their digital memories and important documents. The unit is PnP (Plug and Play) and […]

eSATA | External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

eSATA (External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is an external interface for SATA external drives competing with Firewire and USB. SATA is the replacement interface technology for the older ATA interface for HDDs (hard disk drive). While it is significantly faster than Firewire 400 or 800 and USB 2.0, eSATA does require a […]

Windows Active Directory Service (ADS) Authentication

Active Directory (AD) is a software technology by Microsoft which provides a variety of network services including directory services, authentication, DNS-based naming and other network information. A device attached to a network can become part of its directory service. Windows ADS Authentication provides mutual authentication — both the user and the server […]

Synology DS207 NAS Disk Station | Home and Small Workgroup Network Storage Review

The Synology DS207 NAS Disk Station is targeted for the home and small workgroup. Compared to the recently reviewed DS207+ for SMB it has some hardware differences which reduce performance some 25 percent.

Synology DS207 vs DS207+ Comparison

CPU Speed 266MHz vs 500MHz
RAM Size 64MB vs 128MB
No eSATA external HDD Interface
Supports 2 IP cameras vs […]

Synology DS207+ NAS Disk Station | SMB 2 Bay High Performance Network Storage Review

Synology’s DS207+ NAS (Network Attached Disk Storage) Disk Station is aimed at the SMB (Small and Medium Business) environment as is evidenced by the extensive range of capabilities built into the device. As well as being an Amazon “best seller” the DS207+ received the “Editors Choice” award late in 2008 from the French […]

Buffalo Technology LS-W2.0TGL/R1 2TB and LS-W1.0TGL/R1 1TB LinkStation Pro Duo NAS Review

Buffalo Technology’s LinkStation LS-W2.0TGL/R1 (2TB) and LS-W1.0TGL/R1 (1TB) are twin 7200 rpm HDD Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. Notably, as an Active Directory client they can be integrated into any business network. They’re an ideal solution if you have significant storage requirements for business application files or multimedia files and a […]

LaCie 1TB and 500GB Ethernet Disk mini (Home Edition) NAS and Personal Media Server Review

The LaCie 1TB 301270U and 500GB 301269U are competitively priced network storage (NAS) and media server devices with generous capacity options for the home userThe LaCie NAS drives are compact measuring 1.7 x 6.3 x 6.8 inches (WxHxD) and are backed by a long 3 year warranty by LaCie.

Once attached to your home […]

Linksys NAS200 Network Attached Storage (NAS) Review

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 […]

RAID 1

RAID 1 (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a real-time backup solution where two (most common) or more hard disk drives (HDD) store exact copies of the same data at all times. This setup is also commonly referred to as the mirroring of data. If one HDD fails a complete copy of […]