Portable harddisk: Western Digital Passport II

Even a notebook with a hard disk of 160GB is reaching its limits – sooner or later. So I decided to buy an portable external hard disk to make smaller backups, save data for transportation issues and to out-source some files which are not required all the time. Continue reading “Portable harddisk: Western Digital Passport II”

NAS Icybox 4220

Finally my NAS has arrived: After quite some research I chose the Raidsonic Icybox IB-NAS4220-B. Here a short resume of what the Icybox 4220 has to offer:

  • Gigabit ethernet
  • Dual nas supports 2 harddisks (RAID 0, 1, Span, JBOD)
  • 2 USB-Hosts (for USB sticks, external hard disks or a print server)
  • Samba for Windows networks, NFS (for Linux, Unix), FTP (to access your files via internet), DHCP (automatic network configuration)
  • etc.

This is just to mention the most important characteristics. For more details just download the Icybox 4220 datasheet as PDF. Continue reading “NAS Icybox 4220”