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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[How would you reinstall the OS on that thing if it broke, or if you wanted to change something?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knifa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2009 6:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[Methinks a NAS doesn't need an OS.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[gerrrg]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2009 6:47PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[It says it's running Windows Home Server, though. So it must be,]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knifa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2009 6:51PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[See the back? It has screws you take the side off. You just simply remove an HDD, plug in a SATA DVD drive and do your thing.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Abuzar Baloach]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2009 9:51PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[You can install an OS from a USB drive and there are USB ports on it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dubb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2009 10:27PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[Is it me or that's a sexy NAS.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[aikions]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2009 10:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[If the OS drive dies you replace it with a new drive.  There is a flash memory chip on board that will boot the device and bring up networking.  You put the restore DVD into a computer on your network and run a program on it which searches for your home server on your network and then installs the OS over the wire.  <br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 5th 2009 9:41AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[Nas defiantly needs an OS they either run a windows home server or  some stripped down linux distro.<br>In case of linux there is usually a flash image on onboard NAND that gets extracted and installed onto a special partition on the drives during volume creation.<br>So OS can be reinstalled from flash and flash can usually be reflashed using a special usb boot image that reburns the .bin file to the flash.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2009 6:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[For writing to flash there's:<br><br>dd <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix</a>)<br>physdiskwrite <a href="http://m0n0.ch/wall/physdiskwrite.php" rel="nofollow">http://m0n0.ch/wall/physdiskwrite.php</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kylehase]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2009 11:23PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[Post FAIL - I tried to read your post like 5 times and gave up.<br><br>I defiantly on onboard your post.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 5th 2009 12:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[Shame that it uses 945GC, which is a power hog compared to the processor. Pretty hot feature set, though. Does this setup beat a drobo?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[GlassyEyedGuppy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2009 6:53PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[Can more things please look like this? I'm tired of the future I'm living in not really looking like the future. I mean if I had a toaster that looked like this I'd eat the shit out of some toast.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[nzo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2009 6:55PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[Two toast one cup?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mvp]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2009 7:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[^^ HAHAHAH! Thanks MVP i needed that.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[N3TWORK BURN3R]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 5th 2009 11:59AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[all that sound good and i get how it works. but the price is to hi on them you can get a atom netbook for less and that is all this is with no screens or video]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Willyard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2009 7:00PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[Or you could build your own NAS from mini itx atom boards...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Oli D]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 5th 2009 2:35AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[NAS is just a shared hard drive. It doesn't need an operating system.  Also, its hot-swappable so if you have to change something, all you have to do is remove the drive u want to change and put a new one in.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Russell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2009 7:03PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[A SAN would, theoretically, not require something usually called an "operating system" but a NAS most certainly requires one. Think about it: a NAS shares a file system (in this case this is exactly the same file system that could be used on a desktop machine) over a network, together with its user permissions, concurrency control, file locking, protocol management, web configuration interface (probably running apache+php or perl), etc. You can call it whatever but something supporting all this infrastructure is definitely an operating system.<br><br>It probably runs Linux or a stripped-down Windows Server.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[iv]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2009 7:36PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[Why can't these companies put a cheap 8 GB of flash in these machines for the OS instead of using the hard drives.  Your better of building your own system with FreeNAS or even DIY with a linux distribution.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Glenn Tobey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2009 7:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[If it is using WHS, then the device would boot from the NIC to install WHS.  <br><br>More info on WHS: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx</a><br><br>Best WHS Site: <a href="http://www.wegotserved.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wegotserved.co.uk/</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[pathfinda]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2009 7:38PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[i really like this]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[FILA]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2009 9:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[D-Murph—<br>Your keen wit is above reproach, and I have always based my life on your teachings, but when you write about Acer's easyStore H340 "ravishing design" I kinda have to scratch my head buddy—to me it has all the appeal of a Diehard battery.<br><br>But apparently it's my aesthetics that are out of step here since I'm reading all these other EnGadgeteers sportin' wood over the Sears Craftsman sexiness of this box. ( ! ? ! )]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[yrag]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 5th 2009 12:50AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hey for a NAS, thats going to probably be sitting either in a closet somewhere or on a shelf in another room, the design is pretty good, I like the fact most of the controls and even a USB port for backups is in the front, no messing with feeling around there to turn it off (as if you would) or hook up a USB drive. The only question I have is in the pics of the rear, what the heck is that I/O card slot doing there? What's it for? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[BartmanLA]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 5th 2009 5:30AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[Any information about cost?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Flip]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 5th 2009 9:38AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Acer's Atom-powered Altos easyStore eyes-on]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/acers-atom-powered-altos-easystore-hands-on/</guid><description><![CDATA[Unless that is a windows compatible logo there i might think it a bit more...  im more of a linux supporter..    but then again most my home's computers are windows.  thinking about all the compatibility issues with linux and windows would make me want to kill myself...  (for example installing the printer so it usable in windows and linux).<br><br>If the price is close i would rather buy a 1tb asus eee nas. (it can also double as a fourth computer that i can connect to my lcd tv)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin Turok]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 9th 2009 11:11AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
