Open Elements

Hard drives have increased their storage capacities while prices have dropped dramatically. I usually keep a couple of spare hard drives to backup my personal data (e.g. photos, music, documents) from time to time; This technique works fine as long as I can remember where i put my spare hard drives and where to find the cables that go with it. Wouldn’t it be great if you could connect to a spare hard drive over a network or wireless? That’s exactly what a NAS does. NAS stands for Network Attached Storage and I just got one with 1 terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) of storage.

I am tired of seeing hardware advertisements that say something like “Supports Windows Vista & Mac”. wait a minute, what about Linux?

I ended up purchasing the LaCie Ethernet Big Disk mainly because they proudly say they support Linux on their website, “Supports Linux 2.4 or higher”.

This device is also capable of streaming audio and video over WiFi to other plug-and-play devices in your home. This is awesome!