IBM Enclosure Service Module - storage upgrade kit

Advantages: Excellent Features
Disadvantages: Fatally Flawed Software

...This unit is incredibly enticing. Most units, although 1TB, only allow 0,1 RAID. This means that in RAID 1 (mirror mode) you can only get 500 Gigs. This Iomega unit allows you get 750 Gigs in RAID 5 since it has 4 drives. More cost effective storage space! It also features: * Linux based OS * Flexible user and group based security, * Above average performance with respect to RAID, responsiveness, and transfer speeds. * Gigabit ethernet as well as 802.11G wireless * 2 USB ports to attach additional storage * 4 drive bays to upgrade and replace drives * RAID 5 !. This is a prominent feature that sets it in a unique category among entry level NAS. * A very well built enclosure. All metal, fairly thick at that, as well as very sturdy enclosure for the HD's that uses screws. Nothing plastic of flimsy here. All very very good features... Read review

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Advantages: :ight and strong
Disadvantages: Old design style

...than this and you are wasting your time. I always upgrade to 1GB. This is very easy to do even for the home user. There seems to be this scary though with home laptop users as to breaking and damaging them. You can slip of the RAM slot cover, plug in the extra module and of you go. With 1GB the R51 flies. The 128MB graphics card is over qualified to provide a good clear quality picture when working. Whilst you gamers may not think its of any use, you can still play with the best of them. At the end of the day laptops are laptops, meant for a purpose, games should be played on a desktop if you are serious. The R51 comes with a number of quick access buttons along the top to allow you to turn on Bluetooth, wireless etc at the touch of a button. This does make life easier and means you don't have to hunt around in the Start Menu to enable... Read review

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Advantages: Cheaper than large CompactFlash modules
Disadvantages: Heavier camera battery drain

...these drives are designed to be “bunged in the same ‘ole” as Compact Flash II (CF II) modules, one of the front-runners in digital picture storage, the "film" of digital cameras. This makes them immediately useful to most people whose kit is intended for CF II memory chips. There are one or two exceptions, and it’s best to check that yours actually SAYS it’s configured for the IBM’s as well as CF II. Of course, it’s not just digital cameras that can now benefit from the serious capacity afforded by Microdrives. Some Palmtops and PDA’s are now using them, as is my MP3 player. THE COMPETITION Currently, nothing else comes close to the 1.0 Gigabyte model, although I note that 512 Megabyte CF II chips can now be got. Price-wise, not a lot comes close though, since the BIG CF II chips are pretty expensive in a “pence per Megabyte” kind of way... Read review

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