Advantages: Flexibility, Smartsync Software
Disadvantages: Simultaneous access to Mac and PC

...allows you to schedule folders locally to sychronize with folders on your network storage. Very handy and again very user friendly. Altogether a very cool piece of kit. I'm glad i got it.... Read review

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Advantages: Solid, feature packed, easy to use
Disadvantages: Not as fast as direct attached storage, plus a little noisy.

...I have been using my Buffalo (called 'Bertie'!) for over 4 months now, and it has worked very well indeed. Bertie is connected to my gigabit switch and is accessed by 4 other computers, and it also hosts a file sharing site too. The drive sits in a Windows environment, and is very easy to connect up. After a 15 second boot process, you access the features of the drive through a browser. All the usual tools for network drives are there, plus some seriously useful user permissions, and trashcan tools. It has hot swappable drives too (I bought a spare just in case), but this sold beast I feel will never breakdown. It's not the quietest drive in the world, but this is a minor annoyance. The actual data transfer over the network is not as fast as directly attached storage, but the benefits of using a network far out weigh this. When I need... Read review

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Advantages: All in one unit, compact
Disadvantages: Can get noisey when hot

...I must admit, I was a bit cautious about buying this, specially with the price and what it does. But got it home and I was amazed with all the features it acctually has! Got mine from zomp.net. Really good price, and delivery was the next day! Features: Built-in 160gb HDD - speaks for itself really, loads of storage for all you PC's to access, with the option to set up user profiles, so you all have your own part of tha HDD password protected. Plus you can limit the amount of HDD space each user uses. FTP Server - now this was my favorite. Able to access you documens from anywhere that has internet. You just need you username & password that you set up! And 'bobs you uncle' you can pull your files off to show friends. Or set up a guest account for anyone to access the files. Web Server - Not explored this yet, but it seems a very... Read review

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Advantages: Simple, dual speed, small size
Disadvantages: Only 5 ports (?)

...), and being the same size as my Office Connct wireless access point, looks great too, with LED status indicators on the front show power, port status/activity & duplex-ing. The Ciao picture's not quite right, I think, as the switch doesn't have a curved back to it... It would be a shame if something I bought for a pound did not meet my expectations, and there's certainly no dissapointment here ! If you need to connect more stuff to your network - more PC's, network storage, print server etc - then this is a great option. I hope this helps.... Read review

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Advantages: 20 GB of storage, sleek design
Disadvantages: Navigating your way around the menus

...I bought the MP3 player in early '05 and it has not failed me to date. It's smart with a hell of a lot of storage, I have over 50 albums on the player, which has not faultered since the start. The only problem is that when scrolling around for your favourite songs, you only have artist, album, genre type and what is known as a group folder. You can customize this folder in whatever way you want. Sonic Stage offers excellent interface for you to transfer songs easily, there is no hassle and you can toggle with different types of settings to maintain space on your HD player. There is a sound lock on European models, which can be easily hacked into. Taking care of the MP3 player will give you a lasting performance, battery performance is excellent too. Compared with other MP3 players, this is a must buy mainly for the huge storage... Read review

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Advantages: Portable (almost). fast and reliable.
Disadvantages: Expensive drives and disks, will not be compatible with any other drive, requires extra power source

...I would assume, given the imcompatability issues and the cheapness of other, higher capacity, storage devices, that most people are put off buying into iomega's well known but almost archaic technology, the zip drive. When looking into storage devices a couple of years ago i was tempted but the £120 price tag for a 100mb parralel port device was too much money for not enough storage or speed so instead I opted for a cheap cd-rw drive which although incredibly slow at burning CD's has served me well. On moving to university I found that almost all of the networked PC's in the IT centres, at Sheffield Uni, had zip drives, and considering the incredible download speeds achievable on the university network, the though of a zip drive reentered my mind. Priced at around £60UK I was still a bit wary, but mangaed to get a Zip100 USb device... Read review

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Advantages: 750GB, 7200rpm, Hi-Speed USB, Very reliable & Easy To Use
Disadvantages: None

...The Buffalo Drive Station Turbo USB HD-HS750U2 750 GB is a very useful external hard drive. I have networked computers so use it for back up and storage, which makes it easy for the networked computers to access the same data from one unit. The unit itself is well designed and looks good, its basically just going to sit next to your computer and is just a shell for the hard drive inside and for that it looks quite cool. The dimensions of the unit is 1.8" (w), 6.4" (d), 7.9" (h) and it weighs around 1.5kg. The external hard drive lets you back up and easily access various stored files and folders without taking up room on your PC's main hard drive. This is based on the SATA hard drive technology which is for larger capacity and with turbo USB technology, The hard drives transfer rate is much more than those of standard USB hard drives... Read review

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Advantages: Great colour screen WiFi, infrared & great application support
Disadvantages: none really

...The Palm Tungston C has a 400Mhz Processor, making it faster than a lot of others on the market, especially for this size device. Also the fact it runs PalmOS and not Windows makes it run faster than most Pocket PCs and other variants. It comes with a rechargable battery, which chages each time you sit it in the cradle. I've regularly got 7-9 hours out of the battery, although using networking will reduce this down to 3-4hours. The inbuild 64Mb of RAM is also pretty impressive, allowing you download plenty of applications and store lots of files, without the usual need to remove files everytime you want to create something new. As I mentioned the Tungsten C comes with 802.11b networking support, running at 11Mbps. The receiver and transmitter are fantastic and signal strength is comparable to any other wireless device. External... Read review

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Advantages: Small and powerful
Disadvantages: Sticks out the top of PDA so could easily be snapped off

...I purchased this card on a well known auction site for £27.00 which I feel is excellent value considering the card also has a massive 256 mb of extra memory for storage of files and data. You have to have a PDA with SDIO (secure digital in/out) available or the card will not work. I am using the card with my Dell Axim X3 and my wireless home network which has the Belkin 802.11g wireless router. The card is rated at IEEE 802.11b which is slower than 802.11g but the difference is not noticable when using under normal conditions as web pages load very very quickly. Conguration of the card is very easy after you have installed the driver software via Active Sync from your PC to Your PDA. When you insert the card into the PDA the card automatically searches for any wireless network type signals and lists them for you so that you can pick... Read review

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Advantages: Great handset
Disadvantages: poor battery life

...I had purchased this like most of the others on the 3 network. I got a good deal from dialaphone since this was a second mobile from 3 network and the effective price for me is only 7.5 GBP per month !!!! I get 500 minutes talk time cross network on this contract. It is very handy and light weight compared to my other Sony P800 model and it has almost all the features which Sony P800 has. Compared to the P800 this is light weight and not as bulky as that. The camera is good, and the video call is an excellent feature. Unfortunate that 3 network charges for the video calls :). It has got some limited ring tones. Have not used the messages feature yet. The storage facility is excellent and has plenty of disk space. The only thing which i seem to be struggling with is trying to download my contacts information from my Outlook... Read review

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