Lindy's Mini NAS enclosure hearts your Mac mini

If you've managed to resist stacking your Mac mini atop, say, six or seven Mac mini-friendly external devices, consider yourself fortunate. If you have, however, it's likely that you'll be ratcheting things up even higher once you see Lindy's Mini NAS, which unsurprisingly fits comfortably beneath your wee Mac and dishes out data over your network. The chassis is compatible with standard 3.5-inch ATA hard drives, sports a built-in FTP server and support for Samba, but only touts a 10 / 100 Ethernet connection. Moreover, users can connect it directly to a computer via USB in a pinch, and while there's no word on this thing arriving on American soil anytime soon, those in England can snag one now for £64.99 ($132).

[Via PCWorld]

[Gordy @ Aug 6th 2007 8:40AM]

Better late than never, I guess. Isn't the mini being killed soon?

[treysdad @ Aug 6th 2007 9:27AM]

This is a recycled article guys! You had this on here a while back if I remember as I bought one of these! It is nice, but the insides is a little flimsy and it only has an ide connection, otherwise, very nice enclosure.

[Mike @ Aug 6th 2007 9:28AM]

The beauty of this design is that you can stack em vertically or horizontally... granted, LaCie's Brick series are best suited for stacking.

[Andy @ Aug 6th 2007 9:57AM]

I bought one a few weeks ago and whilst they look good the performance is very poor, also SAMBA means you've got to fool around with naming(mac users).
In the end I just got a bog standard external usb box which performed far better and no naming issues.

[annon @ Aug 6th 2007 10:02AM]

When will Americans stop saying 'England' when they should be saying the UK? Never? Oh, okay.

[Josef F @ Aug 14th 2007 4:48PM]

When you you Brits quit saying 'lift' when you should be saying 'elevator' and 'chips' when you should be saying 'fries'?


Sure. You may have invented the "bloody" language, but we made it sound less fruity.

[craig @ Aug 6th 2007 10:02AM]

So this is a NAS product that adopts a form factor too small to function well in order to stack with a mini in spite of the fact that NAS products themselves have no reason to be in proximity to the machines they serve? Brilliant. Thanks for the lack of gigibit as well. We wouldn't want our slow 2.5" mini drives replaced with anything other than obsolete NAS connections, would we?

Of course, mac mini lovers will buy it anyway. Style over substance is the Apple way.

[Wojtek @ Aug 6th 2007 10:29AM]

Wonder why even a single engineer that worked on this device hasn't noticed that all Apple computers use Gigabit Ethernet networking.

[Matt E. @ Aug 6th 2007 12:41PM]

All? That's a pretty bold statement.

[Bad Beaver @ Aug 6th 2007 1:57PM]

Huh, why would that be bold to state? Each and every available Apple Computer equipped with Ethernet has Gigabit Ethernet these days. But they also have six-pin FireWire, I guess that's all not too common among other brands.

[ET @ Aug 6th 2007 10:45AM]

with the size of that box, I can fit a 3.5 enclosure + a NSLU2 in.

[darren @ Aug 6th 2007 11:45AM]

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/evergreens-nas-mini-looks-familiar/

[Olivier @ Aug 6th 2007 5:18PM]

Pretty much the same as Vantec Nexstar LX

http://www.vantecusa.com/product-storage.html#

[Christopher @ Aug 7th 2007 7:18AM]

So what about us folks in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?
Can we get it too?

I really wish Engadget would learn a bit more about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland....