From: Tony Williams 

Rich wrote:
>    The cost/byte is highest for the lowest capacity.

True. I picked that one to illustrate that the base cost of the unit must be high.

>  Other than that I
> don't know how to judge.  Why do people get NAS?  You can buy
> unintelligent NAS for less if you only want a dumb disk.

I've got a Linkstation which cost about $200 for 160GB. It's a little Linux
server under the hood and does everything I need for a home network.

I guess the point I'm making is that the MS NAS systems aren't a good fit
for home use - probably they have all sorts of features that are great for
business, but it would be nice to see something a bit less expensive.

--
Tony

> Rich
>
>
>
>     "Tony Williams"  wrote in
>     message news:43cab868$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>     Rich wrote:
>      >    See
>     http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/wpnas/default.mspx.
>
>     They're a bit pricy if the Iomega unit is anything to go by - nearly
>     $1000 for 160GB.
>
>     --
>     Tony
>
>      > Rich
>      >
>      >
>      >     "Geo" 
>     > wrote in message
>      >     news:43ca76a5$2{at}w3.nls.net...
>      >
>      >     Which brings up another question, why hasn't Microsoft come
>     out with a
>      >     Windows attached Network Drive like some of these other plug
>     and go
>      >     network
>      >     drives? Microsoft could easily have it pull security
>     information from a
>      >     domain controller in order to make it integrate well with a
>     windows
>      >     network
>      >     giving them a huge advantage in the business world.
>      >
>      >     Geo.
>      >

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