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Transporter: Network attached storage with flair

by Erica Sadun (Mar 11th, 2013)

The Transporter from Connected Data offers a new generation of network-attached storage (NAS). This technology allows you to connect a hard drive to your router, access it from anywhere and share its stored files. It is a bring-your-own drive alternative to the cloud. Units cost US$199 for a ...

How to move your iTunes library to a NAS (Updated)

by Mike Schramm (Dec 26th, 2012)

Update: We've heard from a knowledgable source that the process described in the Ars story may lead to issues down the road. Specifically, newly purchased or rented video content that ends up on the NAS filesystem may be unplayable due to format errors (previously purchased movies or TV shows ...

Pogoplug Mobile shares media with iOS

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 2nd, 2011)

Pogoplug, maker of a popular line of remote storage solutions, has introduced Pogoplug Mobile, a remote storage device that lets you access your media using your iOS and Android device. The device connects to a USB hard drive or an SD card and uses your home network to serve up the content of ...

The Washington Post reflects on Lion's first week of availability

by Mel Martin (Jul 29th, 2011)

Like the rest of us, the Washington Post is taking a look at Lion after a week of use. It's mostly positive, but writer Hayley Tsukayama finds Lion a bit quirky. Chief criticisms are the change to natural scrolling (which can be turned off) and some of the complicated gestures when using a track ...

A few nasty gotchas in Lion

by Mel Martin (Jul 21st, 2011)

Any major system update always has a few bugs and surprises, and Lion is no exception. There are two bugs that hit me directly -- one in Mail, and the other in working with network attached storage (NAS) devices. Let me hit NAS first. I have a pretty old Buffalo Linkstation that I use to back ...

Data Robotics adds the new DroboPro FS to the family

by Steven Sande (Oct 5th, 2010)

The Drobo family of BeyondRAID storage devices has been very popular with Mac prosumers, creative professionals, and small businesses since the first product shipped in 2007. Slowly but surely, the company has been building up its product line. Data Robotics now has three Direct-Attach Storage ...

Data Robotics gives Drobo FS full Time Machine compatibility

by Steven Sande (May 20th, 2010)

When Data Robotics announced the Drobo FS last month, one common complaint among potential buyers was that it doesn't offer native support for doing networked Time Machine backups. Just connecting a Drobo FS to a network of Macs could cause issues for Time Machine backups, since the built-in backup ...

TUAW review: Data Robotics Drobo FS NAS

by Steven Sande (Apr 22nd, 2010)

Network Attached Storage (NAS) is gaining in popularity as an alternative to a home or small office server. A few weeks ago, I reviewed LaCie's Network Space 2, which is a non-expandable 1TB storage solution. For those who want a solution that will be expandable in the future, Data Robotics has ...

TUAW review: LaCie Network Space 2 low-cost NAS

by Steven Sande (Apr 12th, 2010)

Everybody needs storage, and lots of it. The race for space began when we started taking digital pictures, accelerated when we began purchasing music online, and went positively orbital when movies and TV went digital. While big drives in desktop machines are becoming commonplace (1 TB drives are ...

Data Robotics announces new Drobo FS

by Steven Sande (Apr 6th, 2010)

Data Robotics has just announced a new member of the Drobo family -- the Drobo FS. The new device is designed to serve as Network Attached Storage with all of the advantages of the Data Robotics BeyondRAID technology, with the added bonus of drop-dead simple setup. In a pre-release interview with ...

Ask TUAW: Simple spreadsheets, partitioning with Time Machine, iTunes with a NAS, and more

by Mat Lu (Dec 10th, 2009)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about sharing peripherals, simple spreadsheets, backup configurations, using a NAS, and more. As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Leave your questions for next week in the ...

Iomega announces next-gen NAS appliance for backup and media management

by Casey Johnston (Oct 8th, 2009)

As data backup and media servers become more prevalent, they also become more complicated, with ever more devices to sync and ways to store information. Today, Iomega released a new NAS appliance that can serve as both a backup device and a media server with a view to streamlining the setup ...

Pogoplug: Your data, wherever you are

by Erica Sadun (Jun 11th, 2009)

When word about the Pogoplug hit TUAW central, we debated to see who would luck out and and cover the device. Apart from a few cuts and bruises, nearly all of which will mend in a matter of weeks if the doctors are to be believed, I won. The past few days, I've had the pleasure of road testing a ...

Show floor video: Netgear ReadyNAS stores and plays it all

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 25th, 2008)

Netgear's ReadyNAS is a NAS, yes, but it comes pre-configured with an iTunes server, bittorent, wireless disk and printer support and more. Quite the plug-and-play darling, Netgear was kind enough to create some Mac-friendly tools to manage the thing (it's got a Widget!). You can configure the thing ...

Time Capsule backs up your Macs

by Mike Schramm (Jan 15th, 2008)

Apple has released Time Capsule, a NAS (network-attached storage, I'll admit I'm so far from an IT guy that I had to look it up) unit that will wirelessly sync with multiple instances of Time Machine, all the while also working as an 802.11n base station (there are three included ethernet ports as ...