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While Reese got grilled and Crews got one step closer to figuring out who stabbed him in the back decades ago, Robert Stark happened upon what Captain Tidwell thought was a small computer. Clearly, someone failed to tip him off on the fact that a Time Capsule isn’t in any way a Mac mini. Ah well, at least some gal finally convinced him to get a haircut.

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Screen Grabs: Time Capsule holds all sorts of Life’s secrets originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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QNAP’s CeBIT showstopper was unquestionably the all new NMP1000, but given that we already took a few shots of Acer’s mass storage devices, we couldn’t pass up the chance to capture these as well. QNAP’s styling is decidedly “business-like,” though not in the bad way… if you get what we’re on about. Anywho, have a glance below if you’re teetering on adding one of these to your home / business network.

Filed under: Storage

QNAP’s family of NAS drives arrives at CeBIT: eyes-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remember those absurdly capacious 2TB Caviar Green hard drives that Western Digital pumped out earlier this year? If not, WD’s hoping to jar your memory by cramming no fewer than four of ’em into its newest, most spacious ShareSpace NAS ever. The four-bay device is now being offered in an 8TB flavor, and it promises to deliver up to 30 percent faster transfer speeds than prior models and to support DLNA media streaming. As with before, this one also doubles as an iTunes music server and comes bundled with the company’s own Anywhere Backup software. Other specs include gigabit Ethernet, RAID 0/1/5 capabilities, an email alert system in case failure is imminent, a trio of USB 2.0 sockets and a built-in FTP server. It should be ready to house all of your, um, old tax documents later this week for $1,699.99.

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WD shoves four 2TB Caviar Green HDDs into ShareSpace NAS originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Leave it to the good ole FCC to uncover more hidden rumors about Apple’s purported launch on March 24th. According to AppleInsider, new regulatory filings have been approved by the FCC, revealing diagrams of what looks like the Apple Time Capsule and the Airport Xtreme. Since the Time Capsule is basically a NAS drive, larger capacities than those of the current 1TB and 500GB options are to be expected. As for the Airport Xtreme, it’ll likely be 802.11n still, possibly with improved throughputs and hopefully with a different design than the polished white ones. If the new Macbook Pros are any indication, we might even see a “Unibody” Aluminum version

via AppleInsider

While QNAP’s 4-bay TS-439 Pro Turbo NAS was perfectly fine for the average home-based storage junkie, small businesses need something with a bit more potential. Enter the TS-809 Pro Turbo, an 8-bay behemoth capable of housing 8 SATA hard drives (up to 16TB, or .98 million copies of Friday the 13th, when 2GB HDDs are widely available). The unit gets powered by a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, which definitely means that your next NAS may posses more processing power than the antiquated PC it’s connected to. Additionally, there’s 2GB of DDR2 RAM, read / write rates of 126MB/s and 111Mb/s (respectively), and support for a litany of business-related advanced features. Mum’s the word on price, but you can bet it’ll be up there.

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QNAP busts out Core 2 Duo-equipped TS-809 Pro Turbo NAS originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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