External hard drives Updated December 14, 2005 Now that your home office is established and working for you, it's time to look at some nonessential items that will make your work life easier. You can never have enough storage space, and an external hard drive is a quick and easy way to add digital storage space without taking up a lot of physical space. If you have more than one person working in your home office, or if you just have more than one computer, consider a network-attached storage drive. It will let you share files and folders among any computers on your network. |
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Iomega NAS 200d (320GB series storage server) |
LaCie Biggest F800 (1TB) |
Buffalo TeraStation NAS |
Maxtor Shared Storage Plus Drive (300GB) |
LaCie d2 Hard Drive Extreme with Triple Interface (250GB) |
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| Review date | May 25, 2005 | May 13, 2005 | May 4, 2005 | March 6, 2006 | February 15, 2005 |
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| Review summary | This is a very nice NAS box for small to medium-size businesses, but its setup may be problematic. | LaCie's RAID-capable external hard drive array puts an enormous amount of storage within reach of even small company budgets, but the Buffalo TeraStation offers a more compelling package at an even lower price point. | Inexpensive and easy-to-set-up network storage for your home or small business. | Consumer NAS drives don't get classier or easier than the Maxtor Shared Storage Plus, but we'd like to see Gigabit Ethernet on it. | Stylish FireWire 800 performance that's as cheap as the slower mainstream competition. |
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| User comments | Be one of the first to rate this product! | Be one of the first to rate this product! | 4.3 Mediocre (from 39 users) | 5.0 Average (from 20 users) | 5.0 Average (from 34 users) |
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• NAS server • 3 years warranty • 160 GB Full specifications |
• Status LCD • Hi-Speed USB , FireWire 800 • 1 TB • None • IDE • RAID ( IDE/ATA ) - RAID RAID 0 , - RAID RAID 5 , - RAID RAID 0+1 , - RAID RAID 5 hot spare • 11.7 in x 6.9 in x 6 in • Hard drive array • None • None • LaCie Biggest F800 - Hard drive array • 4 (installed) / 4 (max) • 4 x 250 GB Hot-swap IDE/ATA Full specifications |
• NAS server • 15.9 lbs • 250 GB Full specifications |
• NAS server • 3.7 lbs • Microsoft Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP • 300 GB Full specifications |
• IEEE 1394b (FireWire 800) / IEEE1394 (FireWire) / Hi-Speed USB • 7200 rpm • Hard drive • 3.3 lbs • 250 GB • 10 ms Full specifications |
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