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ZyXEL's NSA-220 NAS serves up the media to your DMA-1000
So you've got a DMA-1000 digital media adapter, but where do find room for all those videos and musics you want to stream to it? You buy a fairly generic DLNA NAS, that's what you do. Not to harsh on ZyXEL, DLNA so happens to be the open networking standard of choice for pushing media around the home, and it's been making its way into a good majority of consumer NAS devices lately. ZyXEL's new NSA-220 device has room for dual SATA drives, up to a total of 1.5TB of storage, and can handle RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD drive configurations. No drives come with the device. Most interesting are the dual USB ports, which let you add storage to the device, and which can also be configured to backup data off of a thumbdrive. No word yet on price, but you should be able to pick this thing sometime in Q1 '07.[Via Crave]
ZyXEL intros DMA-1000 HD media streamer / adapter
We've already seen what's likely to be one of the most popular HD media adapters to end up stateside hit the scenes at CES today, but networking guru ZyXEL Communications is apparently trying to steal a bit of that digital home marketshare by offering up an HD media streamer / adapter of its very own. The forthcoming DMA-1000 is a network device that channels your audio / video files from a networked source or locally connected storage device to your home stereo and television, and like most of the similar alternatives, this unit streams video up to 1080i over Ethernet or 802.11g and delivers the content via HDMI / S-Video. Reportedly housed in a compact form factor, it also boasts an onboard USB 2.0 port for attaching files locally, and is completely self-sufficient, not needing a PC to call the shots. Aside from being UPnP and DLNA-compliant, this box hits at a very reasonable price point if you're willing to sacrifice 1080p streaming, and while no snapshots are currently available, this elusive device will be hitting shelves for $175 during the first quarter of this year.
