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Old 17th Mar 2006, 20:59
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BOFH
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indeed. That's why I bought a 2nd-hand laptop for 100 pounds and put the printer, fax/modem, mail/news/FTP/video server and 1 TB of (external) storage on it. And power spikes don't affect it (if you are currently in W4, you'll know what I mean).

To me, the problem with these NAS solutions is that you always need an additional external drive if you want to keep an off-site copy. If they are not IP-adressable, you can't run an FTP or P2P server from them - the technology will be here within a year, I'll warrant.

BOFH
(ooh, just had another outage - heh heh, I have a 36-hour UPS)
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