We're currently working to pull together loaner review units for our upcoming In the Lab test feature.

In the Lab appears every month in HUB: The Computer Paper and on the same day it goes to press, it appears on the front page of www.hubcanada.com.

For April, we'll be looking at network attached storage drives... HDDs that hook up to your home network and enable file and media sharing as well as backup and in some cases, FTP, web serving, remote access and more.

So far, we have received:

Buffalo Technology
LinkStation EZ

LinkStation EZ LinkStation EZ Network Hard Drive offers a simple centralized location for storing and sharing digital content. Share a hard drive with multiple PCs and laptops on your home network! Setup requires no special skills and is done in minutes. Just run the Wizard and you are ready to go. There is nothing else to configure.

LaCie
LaCie Ethernet Disk mini - Home Edition

Access your home files from anywhere
Improve the experience of having multiple computers
Play back videos on your TV via a UPnP media player
Back up/synchronize folders automatically
UPnP Streaming

Western Digital
My Book World Edition

Eliminates the need for a separate FTP server.
Back up critical files to a remote drive for the ultimate protection from loss.
Simplify your home network and access data from any computer or external hard drive in the house.
Automatically back up all your PCs to one central location.
Gain peace of mind with a mirrored back up of important documents and images.

Maxtor
Maxtor Shared Storage II - 1TB
Part # STM310004SDAB0G-RK
$499.99

Store and automatically backup the data on networked computers to one location
Up to 1TB capacity
Simple user interface
Automatically configures to your network, easy setup of computers
Exclusive Maxtor SimpleView backup and storage status for all users
Schedule backup to external hard drives for added data protection, off-site data backup rotation
Automatic data mirroring available in 1TB product
2 USB ports for connecting and sharing printers and additional hard drives
10/1001000 Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45 port connection
Media server plays back digital photos, music and video to networked media/ entertainment systems without a computer having to be on
Access files from any networked PC, Mac or compatible networked media/entertainment system
Looks like a local drive on each configured computer
Share folders with either full access (public) or limited access (private)
Exclusive Drag and Sort™ feature for automatic file organization
For Windows 2000, XP, Mediacenter and Mac OS/X 10.3 and above

And we're still waiting for confirmation or agreement from ...

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