Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Maxtor Shared Storage Plus - NAS for the home....

"....Computer hard drives eventually fill up with photos, MP3s, digital video games, documents and more. A shared storage drive frees up disk space on PCs and makes files more accessible to everyone on the network. Networking is richer when there's a shared storage drive at the heart of the system..."

Features
"Add storage easily and share files, photos, music and videos
Back up the data on networked PCs to one location
Exclusive SimpleView™ feature provides quick backup and storage status for all users
Exclusive MediaRetriever™ plays back digital photos, music and video to networked home entertainment systems. (Requires PnP certified Digital Media Adapter, DMA)
Access files from any networked PC
Easy installation - automatic network configuration
Easy browser interface to assign privacy levels for shared folders
Drag and Sort™ file organization
2 USB ports let you add shared printers or extra drives
100Base-T / 10Base-T Ethernet connection"


200, 300, 400, 500GB 7200 RPM Home NAS/drives with a browser admin interface.

Sounds pretty cool and something I can use. Since my wife's PC has the biggest drive, we store most of our shared stuff there. But she has a habit of turning it off (usually when I'm in the middle of copying up 2GB ISO images)...

I really like the fact that these drives have the USB 2.0 ports on them, allowing for future expansion.

I'll have to put this on my x-mas/tax refund list...

(via Scott Kuhl - Home Network Storage

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Please note that the backup log viewer, simpleview does not seem to work with IE7 installed, howerver this is a great product and allows you to also have networked printers off the built in USB ports