The market for external storage has really started to heat up over the last
couple of years. As greater capacities are becoming commonplace, people are
finding even more stuff to store. As I have written in the past, the more
space a person has, the more they will find to store in it, in the real
world as well as the digital one. Some people can buy that 500 GB, 750 or 1
TB drive and slap it in their computer, but others want more complicated
solutions. And the more you have to store, the more you have to lose. It is
this increased awareness of data protection as well as storage needs which
have given the NAS (network attached storage) market a boost. Light years
ahead of the external hard drive, network attached storage brings with it a
huge feature set, from remote accessibility, to automatic backups, and
hardware failsafe systems. What is even more amazing is that these feats
don’t require a second mortgage. Today’s NAS contender is the Cube Station
CS407 NAS, from a newer company (founded in 2000) called Synology.