Tim Higgins
The redesigned NAS features the "white bar" front panel capacity gauge introduced by the redesigned single-drive MyBook World. It can be configured in RAID 0 and 1 modes and has a Gigabit Ethernet LAN port and USB 2.0 port for external drive support. The two WD "Green" drives are user-serviceable.
Other features include UPnP AV / DLNA media and iTunes servers and remote access via Mionet.
The My Book World Edition II is available now at MSRPs of $399.99 (2 TB) and $699.99 (4 TB).
HP isn't putting all its media serving eggs in the Windows Home Server basket and has turned back to Linux for a refresh of its dual-drive MediaVault line.
There are three new products, all built on the same shortened version of the four-drive MediaSmart server chassis, but powered by a Marvell NAS processor with 128 MB of RAM instead of the AMD CPU used on the MediaSmart server.
Windows Home Server fanboys and girls must have been very bad this year to deserve the early holiday gifts that Microsoft and HP have delivered.
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Thecus recently announced a three-drive RAID 5 BYOD NAS.
The N3200 features three SATA hard disk bays supporting a total of 3TB raw storage capacity and JBOD, RAID1 and RAID5 formats.
