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Looking to add some color to your extensive NAS collection? Well, you find it here, save for the company’s characteristic blue button. If you’re willing to look past that cold, aluminum exterior, however, LaCie’s Big Disk and d2 Network storage solutions should serve you well. The former sports up to 1.5TB capacity with eSATA port for expansion, while the latter goes up to 3TB by concactenating two drives in RAID 0. Both support the usual array of backup software, including Apple’s Time Machine, and work with all DLNA-compliant devices. LaCie says they’re on sale now, $190 for d2 Network and $380 for Big Disk Network.

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LaCie adds to NAS catalog with Big Disk, d2 Network originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 May 2009 00:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ll be perfectly honest with you — the Atom-powered RipNAS definitely caught our interest when it launched with practically no major competitors back in February. Now, the RipNAS family has grown by two with the introduction of the Statement SSD and Statement HDD. We’re told that the former is the world’s first SSD-based CD ripping NAS device, and we’ve absolutely no reason to believe otherwise. The totally silent, all-silver box is based on the Windows Home Server OS and handles a cornucopia of tasks: CD ripping, media streaming and networked file storage. Internal specifications include a dual-core Atom CPU, 2GB of RAM and four USB 2.0 ports. The Statement SSD arrives in a 500GB configuration (2 x 250GB SSDs), while the Statement HDD holds 3TB by way of two 1.5TB drives; mum’s the word on pricing, but don’t bank on ’em being cheap.

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RipNAS Statement: world’s first SSD-based CD ripping NAS device originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 03 May 2009 16:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Given Fusion-io‘s dominance in the SSD-on-a-PCIe-card arena, we aren’t at all shocked to hear that it just landed a nice fat check in its Series B funding efforts. $47.5 million, to be precise. According to the firm, it’ll use the dough to buy bottled unicorns, a kilo of fairy dust and “increase production capabilities” in order to pump out more wares (and hopefully at lower prices). One of those products, we’re told, will be the summer-bound ioSAN, which is explained as a “PCI Express-based product that extends the raw power of Fusion-io’s solid-state technology across the network.” In related news, the company also selected David Bradford to be its CEO, instantly making him one of the most fortunate bigwigs in the world right now.

[Via HotHardware]

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Fusion-io nabs more funding, teases new PCIe-based ioSAN originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Netgear doesn’t exactly go all out with the styling or blinkin’ lights on its ReadyNAS devices, but that all-business exterior is no doubt just what some folks are looking for, and it doesn’t look like they’ll be disappointed by the company’s latest ReadyNAS NVX model. According to Netgear, this one offers “double the performance” of previous NV+ models, which is apparently explained in part by the addition of iSCSI support, along with a number of other new features like an improved ReadyNAS “RAIDiator” operating system (fully compatible with Time Machine) and, of course, a whole range of other on-site and off-site backup measures. That won’t exactly come cheap, however, as the base 2TB model starts at a hefty $1,500, with an extra $5.95 to $19.95 a month required for Netgear’s ReadyNAS Vault backup service.

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Netgear rolls out 4-bay ReadyNAS NVX originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We track a lot of things claiming to be the smallest or thinnest this-or-that, but, when it comes to network-attached storage, we can’t say as we’ve been breaking out our rulers all that often. So, when Thecus says its N0204 miniNAS is the world’s smallest, we’ll take them for their word. Little bigger than an external 3.5-inch drive enclosure, the N0204 actually sports room for two 2.5-inch drives, serving them up concatenated or in RAID 0 or 1 configurations. Despite its size it still offers the same functionality of many of the bigger boys, including the ability to act as an iTunes or DLNA server, print server, and webcam host. It even allows hot-swapping. Apparently the only thing it can’t do is tell you when it’ll release or how much it’ll cost when it does. For that we’ll just have to wait and see.

[Via Legit Reviews]

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Thecus’s N0204 miniNAS is world’s smallest, apparently originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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