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Cheap NAS

Posted by on Oct 30, 2007 | 2 Comments

I’ve had my eye out for a cheap network attached storage (NAS) device for my home/office network for a while now. But the cheapest NAS was never truly cheap … until now. I was pleasantly surprised when a post from Chuck’s Deals arrived in my mailbox today … Chuck turned up an insanely cheap NAS at buy.com.

How cheap, you ask?

How about twenty three measly bucks? You read it right … $23 … it would be tough to find a cheap NAS for storing digital music and photos for less then that.

Full disclosure time … the price for the $23 Hawking NAS does include a $25 rebate, but it does not include a hard drive. You’ll have to shell out another $75 or so to pick up a nice 250GB unit like the Seagate Barracuda.

[tags]NAS, network attached storage[/tags]

  • BILL MacGregor

    Not a bad price for a small NAS.

    $75 will get you either 1 new 500G HDD on Ebay
    or as I just bought , 2 wd2000 200Gs each.

    The best NAS cost $19.00 per year.

    That gets you a Yahoo! Mail Plus account with POP mail, unlimited storage, 20MB uploads and NO Adds.

    I have some where around 150Gs of programs and because I have my browser set to Not delete mail from the server over 1200 or so emails still on Yahoo.

    Many of those emails are Techy type stuff that I sent to myself.

    World Wide Access of Everything.

    Have a Great Day

    BILL MacGregor [online anyway]
    Never use your real name online unless it is a “MUST”.
    K.I.S.S. CO. Security LLC

  • Cheap NAS

    Yahoo mail is good for cheap online storage of your documents.

    I think multimedia stuff is going to be the driver for having a decent size network disk in the house.

    Oh and $23 is pretty good for a NAS enclosure. Is it fast?