- Only power users can justify paying for blazing-fast network tethers.
- Mirrored drives increase a system’s size, weight, power consumption, and price, but they also prevent customers’ data loss and frustration.
- Ensure that your selected operating system and applications have robust features and are interoperable, but hide advanced features from neophyte users.
- ARM and x86 appear to be the dominant CPU architectures for consumer-tailored network storage in the future by virtue of their ubiquity and intense industry focus.
- Cost-effective and power-thrifty hardware has proved valuable for in-depth hands-on evaluations.
At least one potentially positive counterpoint – the NAS (networked-attached-storage) server – shines among the abundance of predominantly negative economic news about the technology sector, particularly consumer electronics. People continue to take still and video pictures, listen to music, and download movies – maybe even more so than in the past – because they’re now staying home and looking to entertainment as a means of distracting themselves from their recession-related woes. More of them are also now working from home-based offices rather than in the cubicles of times past, when large enterprise servers and IT (information-technology) personnel met and managed their corporate-storage needs. Further, an increasing percentage of their homes contain reasonably robust networking setups, enabling various LAN (local-area-network) clients, such as computers, game consoles, media extenders, and printers, to not only share a common Internet connection but also intercommunicate.
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