Cheap NAS...is this cool?

[John Prophet]

http://www.ximeta.com/products_netdisk.html

Just basically an external hard drive that connects via usb2 OR ethernet. Seems cool to me, maybe theyve been out for a while and Ive just missed it.

Saw it here http://www.techbargains.com/ listed at www.outpost.com for $100 AR for 80g 7200rpm.

JP

Any opinions??

[elmers]

I got 120 gigs of internal hd for 85 euros. Its a little expensive if you dont need it. Might be usefull for backups, or file sharing tho.

[John Prophet]

hmm, I just this second ran across this thing too, lol

http://www.evertek.com/viewpart.asp?auto=9367

I have no clue what its all about

JP

[elmers]

Well its a server...

[elmers]

... and it looks cool...

What you've got there, JP, is a simple server in a box. Probably administrated via webmin, or some other generic web interface. Handy if you're going to somebody's house and they don't have a router, or for a portable gaming server perhaps. Kind of a nifty idea. Just a step up from a router basically. You can actually use the box to run apps, or share files.

[Scott Tiger]

I'm not really sure what NAS is aside from the fact that it's Network Attached Storage but I can say that 80gb isn't much room to get excited over where I work. Add into the fact that it's both IDE (SCSI is superior for Multi-User enviroements) and has no redundancy built in (No RAID) so I don't think I'd risk using it for much more that stuff I didn't care to lose with as few users as possible using it.

It would be really nice for a small office though where you back up really large files and take them off site. (Like to work with them at home.)