to centrally share are all accessed from a Win XP or 2000 PC, you like the idea of providing your own drives, and the robustness of mirrored drives appeals to your risk-averse side, the SC101 could be what you're looking for. Discuss This Review! ( ) Replies...

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Both of these options cost more than standard 4,200 RPM drives, of course. Given that both the HP and Sony units include dual drives, perhaps they might do better if they were to mirror them as well? The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600XT in the HP HDX simply blows...

drives, I experimented a bit to see what would happen when the box was booted with a drive missing. So I shut down the 200d, slid out the secondary, mirrored drive and powered back up. Approximately one minute after the boot was complete, I received an alert...

hardware encryption Operating System • Windows Vista Ultimate • Vista Business • Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 • Windows XP Professional Graphics • chipset: VIA VX700 with integrated GPU • video RAM: dynamically allocated shared video memory...

CIFS over TCP/IP. But while the NetDisk has clients for Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/2003 and Mac OS X 10.0 - 10.3 (as well as "Beta" clients for Windows Pocket CE, and Linux), the SC101 will ship with a client that runs only on Windows XP and 2000. NETGEAR's SC101...

if you are interested in this feature, you're on your own. The final interesting feature I'll touch on is what Qnap bills as "Q-Raid". This feature allows an external USB or eSATA drive to be used in a RAID 1 (mirroring) mode. This gives you extra data protection...

the highest of resolutions at 1280 x 1024, it's about as good as a quality 15" LCD can do with today's technology. The unit also ships standard with Windows XP Professional, a 100 GB 2.5" Ultra DMA 100 hard disk with S.M.A.R.T. support (drives up to 160 GB...

and striping capabilities are designed to be used on external drives plugged into the box. A mirrored pool (RAID 1) is designed to be an exact copy of a pool. The feature allows one or more mirrors to be defined, and the box can switch over to the mirror pool...