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QNAP’S NAS TS-110

For many, four bays is a bit excessive. Two bays? Nice and cozy. One bay? Maybe a bit too snug for some, but QNAP is hoping its mono-bay TS-110 will be just right for others. It features the same 800MHz Marvell processor and 256MB of DDR2 RAM on the TS-410 and TS-210, with the discretely vanilla styling of the latter but at roughly half the girth. It keeps the same DLNA, FTP, file serving, and MySQL support of the other two, all configured through a fancy AJAXy web interface. No word on price...

QNAP BRIGHTENS UP

QNAP now offerings with new TS-210 model, What's this? A QNAP NAS that doesn't stick to the company's traditional dark industrial look? Amazing but true, and yet another sign that the company is increasingly looking to bring the NAS out of the office and into the home a move that could only be further bolstered by a certain celebrity endorsement. Effectively replacing the company's previous TS-209 model, this one sticks to the same two-bay setup (for up to 4TB of storage), but steps things up...

IOMEGA’S STORCENTER IX2-200

Iomega's on to something with the StorCenter ix2-200: built-in torrent and Time Machine support, Bluetooth-based uploads from phones, remote access, and lotsa spiffy features wrapped up in an earth-friendly green gadget. Together with the $270 price point, that's appealing all-around. It looks kinda chubby and short, but the StorCenter ix2-200's full of features to appeal to the movie-downloading, home-server-building, tofu-eating, lazy ass in you. The entire device seems to revolve around...

QNAP TS-410 NAS

QNAP's latest TS-410 NAS model will target home and home office users, where it retails for $449 without a hard drive to get you started. Inside, you get a decent 800MHz Marvell processor, although other hardware specifications aren't much to shout about including 256MB RAM, support for up to a quartet of 2.5" or 3.5" hard drives, a full range of RAID options, a quartet of USB ports and a couple of e-SATA ports for future expansion...

KINGSTON DATATRAVELER 410

The Kingston DataTraveler 410 USB flash drive has upped the device's read/write speeds to 20MB/s for you who are always in a hurry to transfer data a wee bit faster. Depending on your storage needs, you will be able to choose from 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities that retail for $26, $46, $84 and $134, respectively. Too bad there isn't any waterproof specifications built into this to make it more rugged, but at least you will be able to make sure your data within remains safer than normal...