Also like the other two units it comes with a one-year warranty and will be widely available at various e-tailers throughout the country (can also be purchased directly through the MediaSonic webstore). Just like its other siblings it has RAID 0 and 1 capabilities and can use any standard SATA 3.5” hard drive. This unit is a 2 bay Raid+ NAS Drive Enclosure Kit that not only includes USB connectivity but also RJ45 network abilities. Today we will be looking at one of their newest products: the HUR1-SU2LA. During that review we decried the lack of any NAS features on the higher end SU2FWB model and MediaSonic seems to have answered our musings. The HUR1-SU2 and the HUR1-SU2FWB and they were found to be very good “no frill” devices that got the job done. Just recently we reviewed two dual bay storage enclosures from MediaSonic. The upside to all this down sizing is that these solutions are fast enough, easy enough, stable enough and above all cheap enough for normal everyday people to want to find out what NAS is all about. In the never ending battle of “right sizing”, advanced features like Print Server or even native multi-OS support have been removed, or severely truncated luckily “right sizing” on most dual bay versions still means RAID is included. Yes, they have to be fast enough to stream a movie or song across the network but they don’t have be any faster than that. They are not fancy devices and sheer speed is not a top priority. To this end most of the value oriented NAS’s are BYOD or Bring Your Own Disk(s) and are either in single bay or dual bay configurations. Jane & Joe Six Pack may not exactly know what a NAS does but they certainly know they don’t want to spend a lot of money finding out. In this emerging new market niche it seems that Walmart Rules are in effect and cost truly is paramount. One thing is for certain: these NAS boxes are not exactly what you think of when you think Network Attached Storage. Just recently, home storage and network attached storage has started to enter the average computer user’s lexicon. Do they understand the underlying technology? Of course not, they just know that they plug in the “phone jack looking thingy” and it allows them talk to their other computers. In the case of networks I here it all the time, average non tech people having and using “their home network”. You know when a technology is truly matured when you can hear “Jane & Joe Six Pack” talking about “their computer THIS” or “their network THAT”. Manufacturer Product Page: Mediasonic Web Store Mediasonic SU2LA Dual Bay RAID + NAS Enclosure Review
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