NAS
QNAP TS-409 Review: The Quad drive NAS for You?
Buffalo LinkStation Pro Duo Review
QNAP announces TS-409 Pro Turbo NAS
QNAP today announced a 4-bay, hot-swappable NAS aimed at business users.
The TS-409 Pro Turbo is a Linux-based BYOD SATA NAS supporting RAID 0/ 1/ 5/ 6/ 5+spare disk redundancy, online RAID capacity expansion and level migration.
Apple intros Time Capsule Mac Networked auto-backup
Drobo gets networking add-on
Promise SmartStor Review: Cheaper RAID 5 in more ways than one
HP intros new MediaVault NASes
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.
HP to intro Linux version of MediaSmart Server
Somehow the folks at Gizmodo got wind of a new, dual-drive version of HP's MediaSmart server. We're guessing that it will be officially unleashed at next week's Consumer Electronics show.
Lime Technology unRAID Reviewed
Iomega buying ExcelStor Group
Iomega today announced that it has entered into a definitive share purchase agreement to acquire ExcelStor Great Wall Technology Limited, a Cayman Islands company, and Shenzhen ExcelStor Technology Limited, a PRC company.
Iomega will issue approximately 84 million shares of common stock in Iomega in exchange for all outstanding ExcelStor common shares. Upon closing the transaction, GWT and its affiliates will hold approximately 43% of Iomega’s common stock, making GWT the largest Iomega shareholder. The Boards of Directors of both Iomega and ExcelStor have unanimously approved the share purchase agreement.