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NAS for the SOHO is not so expensive now. So, to make access to the various files from different PCs much easier it’s better to add it to your home network. But if you already have some USB connected hard drive you can transform it to NAS using NASU2 NAS adapter.

It’s equiped with a USB 2.0/1.1 and an Ethernet 10/100Mbps connection. Additionally NASU2 provides an ability to power most 2.5″ USB hard drives or any low powered USB storage device.

For uses NASU2 offers both SMB (Server Message Block) and the open source Samba network protocols. So, it’s doesn’t matter which OS runs on client PC - MS Windows, MacOS X or Linux. It always will have access to the data on the storage. To access to the storage outside the LAN NASU2 provides FTP connection. Additionally you can use that adaptor as print-server or Torrent client. Not bad for the 50 bucks device, isn’t it?

[via Business Wire]

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If you think that HTPC is too complicated and expensive the new product from Emtec might be interesting for you. Movie Cube -R actually an external storage (up to 500GB) but with amazing functionality. It allows to MPEG 4 playback and recording without PC! What you need to do is connect that media HDD to the TV using its video ouput and that’s it! You can record your favorite TV show or play video already stored on the Movie Cube -R. It has navigation buttons on the front panel and supports remote control.

The Movie Cube offers a simple way to connect your digital camera to download and store photos. It also can be connected to the PC via Ethernet or USB and used as ordinary external storage.

Emtec offers a several models of Movie Cube -R with different capacity: from 160GB to 500GB. The price is started from $300.00 which is quite reasonable for device with such features.

[via Engadget]

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D-Link has announced DNS-323 - 2-Bay network storage enclosure. It has a speedy Gigabit Ethernet connection, a built-in FTP server and UPnP audio visual media server, and supports for a couple of 3.5″ SATA hard drives. The DNS-323 is good to store your multimedia content and share it over your private network. The unit allows to create users and assigne them different access level.

The price of D-Link DNS-323 is $229.99.

[via Ubergizmo]

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An advanced stage of development of digital TV, PVR, digital photo etc smart home owners need a place to store their multimedia content and keep it safe. There is three different Digital Media Storages for Home Libraries:

1. TellyRAID.

TellyRAID is a 2 Terabytes protected and high performance digital media storage. It has enough performance to handle multiple HD or DVD streams. The price starts from US$2200. It’s expensive but real secure, reliable and expandable solution for professionals.
2. Segate Maxtor Fusion.

Maxtor Fusion is an inexpensive solution for for families, creative professionals, bloggers, scrapbookers and anyone who enjoys creating, viewing and sharing a large amount of digital content. The price starts from US$750 for 500Gb.

3. Thecus RouStor N5200 5-Bay

Thecus RouStor N5200 is a 5-Bay Network Attached Storage Server. Here’s what you get in a nutshell: 5 x 3.5-inch hot swap bays (for up to 3.75TB of storage at current 750GB hard drive capacities), RAID 0/1/5/6/10, eSATA port for expandability, data backups to a remote server via “Nsync,” Web-based multilingual interface, compatiblity with Windows/Mac OS X/Linux, 1000Mbps Gigabit Ethernet, support for attaching a USB 802.11b/g dongle for Wi-Fi capability.

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