Massive storage for home digital hoarders

Network attached storage (NAS), once found only in large enterprise systems, is moving into the small office and home with the emergence of low-cost high-capacity disks.

Several companies at Cebit were offering units rivalling Intel’s one-euro-per-gigabyte SS4000E.

Buffalo showed two models complying with the Digital Living Network Alliance standard for networked homes. One, Terastation HS, with storage up to 1TB, is a DNLA-enabled version of an older product.

Buffalo’s second storage offering, the LinkStation Home Server, comes in capacities of 300GB and 400GB.

Both products are available immediately at estimated street prices (ex VAT) of £480 for the TeraStation, and £210 and £280 respectively for the £00GB and 400GB versions of LinkStation.

Linksys offered a simpler product packed into an 11g wireless router.

Its Speedbooster WRTSL54GS packs a media and ftp server and a USB port. You simply plug in whatever USB storage you want and you can access files or stream media either wirelessly or over the fixed network.

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