PC World sometimes come up with a blindingly good deal. Here’s one of them, the Western Digital MyBook 1TB NAS Drive http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/306727#productInformationSection. Even Ebuyer cant beat that, they want £206 for the same unit.
The WD MyBook 1TB is a NAS storage unit with 2 x 500GB disks which can run in RAID-0 or RAID-1 configuration. Best to use RAID-1 because losing 1TB of data is just careless. This is an intriguing little unit which is actually a small file server running BusyBox Linux on a rather wheezy ARM9 CPU. It has a gigabit Ethernet interface to your home network/ADSL router with some rather frightening software to allow you to access the drive from anywhere on the internet.
Now Because its actually a computer (of sorts) you can do computer stuff with it, like login to it. This is useful for all sorts of things not least of which is folder to folder copying which otherwise would see all the data stream to your PC and back again. One interesting feature is that it has realtime encryption so your data is safe on disk.
Anyway, well worth it, but use it as a 500GB RAID-1 and buy a second if you really need 1TB.
