Thread: SimpleNet provides NAS power to your portable storage devices

There are several common methods to increase network-attached storage to your home infrastructure. You can buy pre-populated with NAS equipment (the server or at home) and insert it into your existing network settings. You can buy a shell, fill it with the hard drive, and insert into your network. You can even go the extreme route and transform your desktop to the storage server through the use of existing open-source operating environment.

If you already have existing external devices such as desktop or portable storage devices hard drives, you are usually bad. Access to storage capacity, these devices will need to plug your network, said product to an existing PC-friendly NAS or USB device - not a useful solution, budget-minded individuals just want to network storage there are no major cost or conversion .

Hitachi has been simplified equation developed network equipment, bridges, your USB storage with your existing network. It is called SimpleNet, as it is a brief description of the work. The power of one end of brick-shaped device has two USB connections, and in another sitting in a 10/100 Ethernet port. Attention to this aspect of the device to your network, you can hot swap any number of USB-based storage devices (either hard disk or Flash-based) of the two connectors on the other side.

Although Fast Ethernet interface is not the best news, to gigabit Ethernet enthusiasts, as well as the price of 80 U.S. dollars it seems to be an early morning high SimpleNet First, the equipment is still a very convenient method of mixing all of the portable storage hit to the network environment. According to your storage needs and the existing inventory, you can even save money compared to pre-populate with NAS equipment or do-it-yourself construction.