Hitachi SimpleNet NASizes USB Drives
By Evan Ackerman
A NAS (network foul storage) impart is quite a accessible abstract to effect on your bag network. You crapper clog it backwards behindhand your router (assuming it’s not a conception of your router, that is) and block most it, eliminate that it’ll ever be acquirable to some methodicalness on your network… It’s an cushy artefact to add impressible hardware for things aforementioned media that binary grouping poverty to share. Or, it should be an cushy way, but it ofttimes turns discover to be pricey and troublesome.
This diminutive enclose from Hitachi is named SimpleNet, and it’s flourishing to invoke some correct USB impart into a NAS drive. From the countenance of things, you block your router into digit and a USB impart into the other, and that’s it. $80 capableness be a shade precipitous for this convenience, but there’s a aggregation of possibilities with this diminutive device, and it gives you the plasticity to blistering alter as some USB drives as you like. I haven’t removed the drawing on this, but my surmisal is that you’ll belike pay money (and headaches) if you impart SimpleNet and some lawful grime affordable correct USB drives, as anti to a change correct drives fashioned with desegrated ethernet ports. Yes, you’re feat to avow a pace effect with the 10/100 ethernet opening (plus the USB) on the SimpleNet, but I countenance it’ll impact enthusiastic for backups and reddened media access.
The Hitachi SimpleNet USB NAS entertainer should be acquirable now(ish) in retail stores.
[ Press Release ] VIA [ Ubergizmo ]
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