http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/
"Ethernet 10/100Mbps connection"

Without gigabit ethernet, this is complete crap.]]>Dec 11th 2008 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/
If you're just going to be using it for occasionally moving files I thin for the price this is spot on. If you want hardcore use or streaming, spend the money and buy a NAS.

My only disappointment with this is the single USB connection. If they're going to offer printer serving functions they should at leat off two.

Now I want to see this typ of thing incorporated with a WIFI modem/router.]]>Dec 11th 2008 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/
The limitations of USB mean it'll only *sustain* a transfer speed of around 30-35MB/s, so Gigabit would still offer a speed improvement over 100MBit. Now if only it supported eSATA...]]>Dec 11th 2008 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/The usb 2 is limited to 480Mbits/s. So 100 Mbits/s is actually quite a bottleneck.
As an example you can get usb keys that have read speeds around 30 MByte/s, which is 8*30=240 Mbits/s. Using this it would max out at around 10MByte/s(80Mbits/s).

I'm not even sure this is usb 2.0, in which case the usb port would be the bottleneck.]]>Dec 11th 2008 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/
Try the Linksys WRT600N Dual-Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router with Storage Link (http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1175237911752&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&lid=1175239789B01). Just picked up a refurb for 100 bucks. Has a USB port on it to connect an external hard drive and gives you access over the network as well as FTP and media streaming.]]>Dec 11th 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/but using a laptop with 4 usb ports, all full, with another 2 8 port usb hubs almost full

I need the bandwidth

hope they relese one with gigabit]]>Dec 11th 2008 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/
I think it's safe to say that you are not the average user. You definitely need something significantly more powerful than this, but does that mean that most other people do? You could add up everyone in my entire neighborhood and they probably wouldn't have that much storage kicking around.]]>Dec 11th 2008 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Based on my own network and USB Drives, 100 mbit network maxes out at around 8MB/s and an IDE (PATA) HDD at 30MB/s and a SATA HDD over eSATA at 50MB/s, so gigabit would be nice.

And, yes, you can stream uncompressed DVDs over 100 mbit lan, but if you want to rip to the network drive, gigabit lan sure does come in handy, so you don't have to listen to the DVD drive stuttering all the time :-)]]>Dec 12th 2008 6:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/
You can throw all the bandwidth you want at it, but as long as your file transfers/access is using SMB, you're going to take a huge speed penalty.

And IMO I don't think this device has a particularly stellar SMB controller.]]>Dec 12th 2008 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 12th 2008 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Newlink-HD-USB01-USB-to-RJ45-NAS-dongle-device-(Convert-your-USB-hard-disk-into-NAS-Box)]]>Dec 11th 2008 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Newlink-HD-USB01-USB-to-RJ45-NAS-dongle-device-(Convert-your-USB-hard-disk-into-NAS-Box))]]>Dec 11th 2008 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/]]>Dec 11th 2008 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001181.html]]>Dec 11th 2008 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/
Typical NAS drives are much more expensive than the USB variants. The $55 price tag plus a USB storage drive is still cheaper.

]]>Dec 11th 2008 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/ The device supports both SMB (Server Message Block) and the open source Samba network protocols
SMB and Samba - one and the same.
]]>Dec 11th 2008 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/
That's like saying that HTTP and Firefox are one and the same.]]>Dec 11th 2008 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 14th 2008 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 12th 2008 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/
Link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/NEWLink-Single-Port-NAS-Donlge/dp/B001FB6WPA/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1223378631&sr=1-12]]>Dec 11th 2008 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/
Only one computer NEEDS access to this device for it to be useful to me.]]>Dec 11th 2008 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/I doubt this dongle takes as much power as a full computer - nor does it make as much noise.]]>Dec 11th 2008 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/on-topic, as soon as it supports multiple users at once, i'll buy one. I need this badly!]]>Dec 11th 2008 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Pretty sweet little device though!]]>Dec 11th 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/Dec 11th 2008 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/
And I don't think its intended as a power user solution.... So you snobs can go back to hugging your NASs.




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