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[Thomas Milne]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:09 PM, William O'Higgins Witteman
<william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I am planning to set up a fileserver for my home network.  Mainly, this
> is so that when my wife is at home she can sync her laptop and her
> desktop (both Macs) via a quick-and-easy rsync so that both machines are
> always in sync, with an additional copy on the network from which the
> offsite network backup can happen at night.
>
> I don't want to set up a separate full-sized machine to take this role -
> I'd prefer a small, quiet and inexpensive device that I can plug in and
> will "just work".
>
> I am looking at these two devices - a Linksys Media Hub or a WD MyBook:
>
> http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_357&item_id=023031
> http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=15_213_603&item_id=031508
>
> I would welcome any other suggestions or caveats.  Thanks!
> --
>

I have the WD, and it's great. I don't know what else there is to say,
it did what they said: I plugged it in and it worked.

I chose it because it's WD, and they always seem to come highly
recommended when it comes to storage.

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