Read more.A NAS with a 'personal cloud' in tow. We take a good look.
Read more.A NAS with a 'personal cloud' in tow. We take a good look.
Like the pricing - especially the small hike to go from 1TB to 2TB. The MyBook World Edition (MBWE) that I've got at the moment doesn't have a fan either (or if it does then it's a very, very quiet one!) and you can feel the heat rising from the grilled top of that unit if you leave it doing a transfer for a couple of hours.Inside, WD outfits the chassis with a 1TB, 2TB or 3TB mechanical drive - the specs of the HDD aren't disclosed - and you can expect to pay £100, £125 and £200, respectively, for the three capacities. ... WD feels comfortable not adding a fan to the tight-fitting enclosure.
I also wonder if they've fixed the "feature" that the MBWE has, that when you apply power it spins up, does something for a couple of seconds then powers off. So to switch it on you need to actually use the power button at the back.
although I'd be more interested in a USB port so I could duplicate the NAS contents to a relatively cheap "desktop" drive for an offsite backup.Yet such is the rudimentary nature of this NAS, there's even no USB port for grabbing files from the ubiquitous drives.
Typo - one too many "a"'s?this is a basic a NAS
Maybe we need a new term for these kind of very basic storage devices - not so much Network-Attached Storage as Network-Attached Disk?
Tarinder (24-10-2011)
And presumably we could then start calling the action of duplicating NAD data to an external drive "jockstrapping" - since it'd be protecting your NADs.
Don't blame me - you started it!
If you don't like "NAD" (and I can see why) how about "DON" - Disk-On-Network, or "DNA" - Disk, Network-Attached. Or, if you're getting sophisticated, how about "sNAS" - simple Network Attached Storage.
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