Click…click…click…yep, you’ve heard it before, the sound of a dead USB hard drive crashing its depressed head into the platter. And who can blame it after a monotonous life writing data back and forth, back and forth, back…and…forth, 24/7, catering to your every whim and desire. Well, enter the Addonics NAS Adapter, the digital Prozac that dramatically injects new life into your storage device by transforming it into a honest to goodness Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. Too good to be true? Let’s take a look in detail. …Continue reading: Gadget Review: Addonics NAS Adapter
Early last December we took a look at the Addonics NAS adapter. In short, it enables any storage drive with a USB interface to become a NAS. In just a few weeks time they’ll face some stiff competition from the Pogoplug. Although the Pogoplug is $24 more and lacks a Bit Torrent server (it could be modded via Linux to include this, so says Erik), it can be plugged into a USB Hub allowing multiple drives to be accessed. So yes, it costs more than the Addonics NAS Adapter, but you’ll only need to purchase one adapter to access multiple drives and thus the savings. Notably, they’ve also built an iPhone application enabling easy access to your files no matter your location.
The Pogoplug will ship sometime in March. You can preorder one now for $20 off the regular price of $99.
From Addonics’ website:
Q: Can I attached an USB hub to the NAS adapter to have multiple hard drives on the Network?
A: No. The NAS adapter does not support USB hub
From Pogoplug’s website:
Q: Can I attach multiple hard drives to my Pogoplug?
A: Yes! Use a USB hub with your Pogoplug and you can attach multiple hard drives that all show up under your account.
[Pogoplug]
What is it: The Addonics NAS adapter turns any USB hard drive into a NAS enabled device. What does that mean? Basically, it turns your USB hard drive into a network device so you can access it from anywhere on the network
Features: USB to ethernet adapater, LED status lights, built-in bittorrent client, DHCP server/client, web-based management
- Convert any USB 2.0 / 1.1 mass storage device into a Network Attached Storage device
- Great for adding Addonics Storage Tower, Storage Rack or any Addonics USB storage device onto the network
- Great for creating a custom Network Attached Storage appliance.
- USB port can be used to power most 2.5″ USB hard drives or any low powered USB storage device.
- Support Fast Ethernet 10/100Mbps.
- Simple to install
- Small and light weight. Size slightly longer than a C size battery. Can be installed practically anywhere
- Can be set as DHCP server or client.
- Support Samba server for up to 64 concurrent clients.
- Support FTP server for up to 8 concurrent users.
- Can be set as a print server to attach any USB printer to the network
- Built-in Bit Torrent client for direct download to the attached USB storage device
- Can be set as a UPnP AV server to share photo/music files stored on the file server with XBOX 360 video game consoles connected to the LAN
- User management to allow read only or read/write access to folders
- Administrative management access via web browser with password security.
- Compatible with all Windows OS, Mac OS, Linux 2.6.x and above
Availability: Here
Price: $55
[Crunchgear]
