Ever more home networks with each day, ever bigger data with each day. That means increasing demand for NAS which are easy to handle, NAS for everybody, and which can serve as media-stations. NAS-specialist RaidSonic showcases two of these and one more classical NAS.
ICY BOX IB-NAS6210 and IB-NAS6220
These NAS set up themselves more or less automatically. Thanks to a web-browser based user-interface even lay-people won’t have a problem. The same interface appears when go to the website www.myicybox.com. That’s a cool way to enjoy videos, music and photos stored at home on the NAS anywhere in the world – driving to work, on a vacation or on a business trip. Using a mobile media-player like iPhone, Playstation or the like you don’t have move your data anymore to update your playlists.
The www.myicybox.com website is a service by Axentra, www.axentra.com. It is called HipServ.
You can mount one HDD into the ICY BOX IB-NAS6210 and two HDDs into the NAS6220. That’s very easy with the new patented trays. Buffers of silicon hold the HDD – it’s shock absorbing and screw-less. Both NAS offer one Touch Backup and RAID 1. Therefore IB-NAS6210 has to be connected to another HDD per eSATA. IB-NAS6220 also has RAID 0.
You can share the ICY BOX media server. You can store several media collections – let’s say of an entire family - on this ICY BOX and each member may use them.
The servers available with the ICY BOX media-station are Samba, UP’n’P, iTunes/Bonjour and FTP. The NAS collaborate with Time Machine.
Rec. retail price IB-NAS6210: Euro 139.99; IB-NAS6220: Euro 199.00
ICY BOX IB-NAS6210 and IB-NAS6220
These NAS set up themselves more or less automatically. Thanks to a web-browser based user-interface even lay-people won’t have a problem. The same interface appears when go to the website www.myicybox.com. That’s a cool way to enjoy videos, music and photos stored at home on the NAS anywhere in the world – driving to work, on a vacation or on a business trip. Using a mobile media-player like iPhone, Playstation or the like you don’t have move your data anymore to update your playlists.
The www.myicybox.com website is a service by Axentra, www.axentra.com. It is called HipServ.
You can mount one HDD into the ICY BOX IB-NAS6210 and two HDDs into the NAS6220. That’s very easy with the new patented trays. Buffers of silicon hold the HDD – it’s shock absorbing and screw-less. Both NAS offer one Touch Backup and RAID 1. Therefore IB-NAS6210 has to be connected to another HDD per eSATA. IB-NAS6220 also has RAID 0.
You can share the ICY BOX media server. You can store several media collections – let’s say of an entire family - on this ICY BOX and each member may use them.
The servers available with the ICY BOX media-station are Samba, UP’n’P, iTunes/Bonjour and FTP. The NAS collaborate with Time Machine.
Rec. retail price IB-NAS6210: Euro 139.99; IB-NAS6220: Euro 199.00
