Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Tom's Networking reviews the Linksys NSLU2 Network Storage Link
Posted by James Fee in "ARTICLE" @ 12:00 PM
"One of the challenges that computer manufacturers face is managing their hard drive inventory—a problem that is shared by makers of networked storage devices. Although drive prices are insanely low on a cost-per-gigabyte basis, they still can be the major factor in a NAS product's retail price. And who wants to be left holding inventory when the next drive capacity bump-up hits? Some networking product companies have approached this problem by making routers with built-in NAS features that require BYO storage. It was only a matter of time before someone broke the BYODisk NAS function out into its own box. That time has now come with Linksys' NSLU2 Network Storage Link. I'm happy to report that it works well and even addresses my number one request to NAS device makers—backup!"
We looked at this release about a month ago and I for one have been waiting for a review to see how well this solution works. Tom's Networking calls the drive the cheapest, easiest way to get NAS up and running. For as much effort as I have spent on my Linux storage solution at home, this could have saved me so much time, not to mention won't take up tons of space.
We looked at this release about a month ago and I for one have been waiting for a review to see how well this solution works. Tom's Networking calls the drive the cheapest, easiest way to get NAS up and running. For as much effort as I have spent on my Linux storage solution at home, this could have saved me so much time, not to mention won't take up tons of space.
