Asus WL-HDD Media Streaming Hard Drive Review
Asus has joined the ranks of companies offering a hard drive streaming product. The new
WL-HDD2.5 allows you to add a
standard 2.5 IDE drive to your network via either a wired connection or wirelessly. While this seems to be a Windows only device it is still a pretty sweet system. Since it uses Samba we suspect this will work with other operating systems, but the configuration needs to be done on a Windows box so you will at least need one to start the process of adding this to your network.
The WL-HDD can use either WEP or WPA security to hook into your network. We are glad they added WPA, we are still amazed how many companies just refuse to use it, even though they know of the problems with WEP. Call us security crazy, but why use a protocol that has known vulnerabilities when there is a much more secure option in WPA just sitting there.
They have also included a UPnP server so this will be perfect for someone wanting to add a low power media streamer to their house to use with say their
PS3 or
Xbox 360. No need to have your power hungry computer on all the time. Put a high capacity 2.5" hard drive in here and you have a pretty sweet network streamer. We aren't sure if there will be any problems with transfer speeds as we have yet to read a review of this. There also doesn't seem to be any information on how to buy this yet either. So we will keep hunting and let you know what we find.
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Posted by David Ficocello at December 24, 2007 12:11 PM
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