Lab Rats - #177 - The wild and wooly truth about NAS

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#177 / June 29, 2009 / 20:23 min.

The wild and wooly truth about NAS

With the rapidly expanding storage needs of a multi-computer connected household, wouldn't it be nice to have all your family's files in

one central, backed-up storage location

? And wouldn't it be nicer still to be able to access said storage location from anywhere in the house? Well, with

Network Attached Storage (NAS)

, always-accessible central storage for the home is a reality. You can

stream music and movies anywhere on the network, share documents, pictures

and much more. Sean and Andy talk about Network Attached Storage, explain why you need it in your house, and

how to set up your own NAS

... And along the way, animal sounds are made.
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NAS : Network Attached Storage.

Acer Aspire easyStore H340 = $400 US and up (depending on configuration).

MicroNet PlatinumNAS (discontinued): New MicroNet products at: tinyurl.com/MicroNetNAS.

Hot-swappable : means you can unplug/re-plug a drive while the device is running.

D-Link NAS enclosures = labratsonline.com/dlink-nas.

Western Digital NAS options = labratsonline.com/wd-nas.

NAS options also available from Seagate, Buffalo, Drobo, and many others.

See the Linksys products at = labratsonline.com/linksys-media.

Episode 172: Printing to the Network = labratsonline.com/ep172.

Episode 8: RAID using sandwiches = butterscotch.com/show/RAID-Explained.

eSATA = is an external version of the SATA drive connector, which is traditionally internal.


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