hi: i am from eds lab. just want to share why we created sucha product. the widrive is not meant to be compared to a usb drive. we didn't add in a bunch of processors just to replace a 2 dollars cable.
the widrive can function as a block device (i.e a SAN, not a NAS or file server). it's a lot easier to use and setup with our drivers. it has web and ftp access built in as "spare" connectivity. this allows capabilities like joining an access point and getting your friends on another part of the world to download your files. also, as coolie pointed out, it can talk to a wifi digicam and seamlessly offload the images. i think apart from the james bond quirkiness, we think it will be useful to a media center pc. yea, a usb drive can be connected to one, but what?? i got to leave my couch???
sorry to drop in an ad...but it's relevant to this discussion. we do have a wifi-drive. www.edslab.com 2 MB/sec transfer rate (bottleneck of 802.11g). in winxp it's recognized as a local hdd. in other os, it can load a web page to access the same files.
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px-100 is compact model without usb transfer.
px-225 is the one WITH usb 2.0 transfer (mass storage).