Post by thread:[OT] New NAS from WD

New generation of home NAS: http://reviews.cnet.com/external-hard-drives/western-digital-my-book/4505-3190_7-33528790-2.html This new WD Mybook World Edition White Light version seems to be very good -- smaller, cooler and much faster than the previous generation. We have the old World Edition 500GB (first generation) and we like it. But the speed is not that fast. Previous generation of home NAS: http://reviews.cnet.com/external-hard-drives/maxtor-central-axis-nas/4505-3190_7-33145176-2.html And since WD releases the GPLed Linux source codes, there might be more hacks later. Are you looking at these NAS devices? Xiaofan

On Apr 5, 2009, at 3:21 AM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > Are you looking at these NAS devices? Watch them all the time. :-) Thanks for sharing about the MyBook changes. I am leaning toward getting a Drobo device myself right now. 4 disk RAID, without really needing to think about it, Firewire connectivity for a connected host... -- Nate Duehr spam_OUTnateTakeThisOuTnatetech.com

2009/4/5 Xiaofan Chen <.....xiaofancKILLspam@spam@gmail.com>: > New generation of home NAS: > http://reviews.cnet.com/external-hard-drives/western-digital-my-book/4505-3190_7-33528790-2.html > > This new WD Mybook World Edition White Light version seems to > be very good -- smaller, cooler and much faster than the previous > generation. We have the old World Edition 500GB (first generation) > and we like it. But the speed is not that fast. I just bought an Iomega Home Media NAS. I chose it for a few reasons. First off I'm not at home and this one was available here. Second, I wanted something that would work seamlessly across Mac and PC. And thirdly I wanted something expandable. So far I've been fairly satisfied. It started up just fine, easy to access over the network, and seems relatively speedy. Haven't tried multiple users really hammering it yet though. I like that it has a USB host built in and will write to NTFS - something that I had trouble finding. The iTunes server is a nice bonus and actually seems to work just fine. Supposedly it will stream to compatible network media players but I haven't tested that yet. Josh -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams