Thecus N299 awarded 4 Out of 5 Stars by PC Advisor
30 January 2008 Source: www.pcadvisor.co.uk
If you're looking for a truly affordable way to store and share your data, the N299 from Thecus should certainly be on your shortlist. The editors of PC Advisor recently took a close look at the N299, and after a gamut of tests, discovered that under the bargain sticker price is a piece of sophisticated network storage hardware.
The Thecus N299 is a networked-attached storage (NAS) device - an external hard disk that plugs into a spare network port. It's thus available to all PCs on your network, which makes NAS boxes much more convenient than standard USB or FireWire external drives – Windows and Mac users can map folders on the N299 that look like any other drive on their PC...
...The Thecus N299 does a lot more than simple file serving. It can function as a print server and stream media, it can be used for FTP sharing and will even take care of timed backups and store files on its web server...
...The Thecus N299 brings sophisticated network-storage hardware to the domestic market at an attractive price.