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]
posted Aug 6th 2007 8:23AM
Better late than never, I guess. Isn't the mini being killed soon?
The beauty of this design is that you can stack em vertically or horizontally... granted, LaCie's Brick series are best suited for stacking.
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.
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.
When will Americans stop saying 'England' when they should be saying the UK? Never? Oh, okay.
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.
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.
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....
Wonder why even a single engineer that worked on this device hasn't noticed that all Apple computers use Gigabit Ethernet networking.
All? That's a pretty bold statement.
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.
with the size of that box, I can fit a 3.5 enclosure + a NSLU2 in.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/evergreens-nas-mini-looks-familiar/
Pretty much the same as Vantec Nexstar LX
http://www.vantecusa.com/product-storage.html#