“Being able to host your own website, FTP, Multimedia Server or other web based products meant that you had to rent a dedicated server. Well those days may be in the past as you can now buy your very own NAS server to do all this work for you and it is actually simpler than you think.”Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- In Win NA eSATA USB Enclosure @ techPowerUp
- Thecus N3200 Review @ Bootdaily
- HighPoint RocketRAID 2680 and RocketRAID 4320 SAS/ SATA Cards @ Overclockers Online
- SanDisk Extreme III 4GB SDHC Flash Card @ Legit Reviews
- Rosewill RX355-X2 External Hard Drive Enclosure Review @ ThinkComputers
- WD Caviar Green 2TB & Seagate Pipeline HD 500GB: Two Very Quiet Drives @ SPCR
- Hitachi Deskstar E7K1000 1TB Enterprise Hard Disk @ Tweaktown
- Patriot WARP v2 128Gb SATA-II SSD
You used to have to pay someone to do this

FTP hosting and basic secure file transfers used to be the domain of ISPs and hosting companies, but as the cost of storage and processing power has dropped remote hosting is becoming extinct. Apart from near instant fail-over and distributed backups, any enthusiast could slap together a file server that can handle multiple users. Now, with the advent of the Network Attached Storage device, setting up secure file transferring and sharing is almost plug and play. Take a look at the Synology DiskStation DS209+ over at Modders-Inc to see what the newest generation of NAS can do.