I used to work in the storage industry and therefore have a latent love of storage devices. They are the backend products that nobody ever sees or hears about but are the heart and soul of all networks. Everyone knows about servers and routers but few people know about RAID storage devices. I therefore enjoyed reading about ACER's newly released wireless Network Attached Storage (NAS) system.
Acer Computer Australia has released the Aspire easyStore; an intelligent network storage solution designed for small, medium and home office network environments.
The wireless accessibility is a major differentiator from other similar products in the market. With integrated 802.11b/g the Aspire easyStore has the ability to work as a wireless access point with no network cabling required. The product also offers Gigabit LAN connection for data transfers.
While the Aspire easyStore offers a large storage capacity (up to 4TB using 4 high capacity hard drives), the device is still simple to setup and manage through an intuitive web browser based user interface.
The Aspire easyStore features integrated iTunes and UPnP AV Media Server allowing the capacity to stream photos, music and videos to UPnP AV client devices such as a Playstation and share files amongst mixed OS users. The device includes RAID control enabling protection of files, supporting levels of 0, 1, 5 and JBOD. easyBackup software enables automatic client backup and system recovery if a hard drive fails, file corruption or accidental file deletion occurs or in the event of virus attacks.
Yeah, I know it is all marketing blurb but imagine having wireless access to a 4.0 TB hard disk! Pretty cool huh! I think so. Why is this important? Well, consider the netbooks (low cost PCs). They only have limited storage available. Their advantage being they are cheap, small and easy to carry. However, you still have tons of data you want to access but plugging in a USB cable to an external hard disk is just irritating right? Well this is the answer to all your storage dreams. Hey, if I can persuade the better half I might buy one....grin....ok, not neccessarily the ACER...
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