Network Attached Storage for Home Networks by Robert Carter
Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a way to store common data on a network. While many people think that NAS is only intended for businesses, it can be a great solution for home networking as well. Indeed, many homes nowadays have more than one PC. File sharing between multiple home PCs is often... Externally, it looks similar to a common external hard drive, apart from the RJ45 network socket. ... NAS for Home Networks In it's simplest form, a NAS device consists of a hard drive, a network card and a simple operating system residing in an EPROM memmory.

Configuring the Internal Drives ... Step 11 of 21 by Chuck Lunsford
Before configuring you must decide what type of drives and how many you want in your system. Unless you plan on using your PC for more involved applications such as networking then one drive should be sufficient. In fact with today’s drive sizes like the LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive coming in at... Strictly speaking, "drive" refers to a device that drives (removable) media, such as a tape drive or (floppy) disk drive, while a hard disk contains fixed (non-removable) media. ... However, in recent times, the hard disk has become more commonly known as the "hard drive." The same procedure goes...

Networking Terms: Educating the Client by Joshua Feinberg
It is very important to educate your small business prospects and clients on key small business networking terms and buzzwords. After all, in order to "win them over," you need to be speaking the same language. In fact, you may even want to prepare a "cheat sheet", based on the below... • LAN (Local Area Network) – set of computer systems and peripheral devices connected for sharing resources and providing near instantaneous communications; today’s small business LANs are typically physically connected using Ethernet network adapters and Category 5 cabling; when extended to one or more...

Networking Terms: Educating Your Clients by Joshua Feinberg
It is very important to educate your small business prospects and clients on key small business networking terms and buzzwords. After all, in order to "win them over", you need to be speaking the same language. In fact, you may even want to prepare a "cheat sheet", based on the below... • NIC (Network Interface Card) - a printed circuit board, adapter card or the underlying supporting chipset that snaps into the motherboard of a desktop PC, notebook or server and transmits and receives packets on a network; used to connect to networks including a local area network (LAN), wide area network...

External Hard Drives by Kent Pinkerton
The trend with technology seems to be going small and mobile. You would probably think that is where the manufacturers got the idea of making external hard drives. These are hard disk drives (HDD) that are literally placed outside of the computer case. ... What differentiates an external 3.5” drive from a 2.5” drive is that normally, the larger device would need an extra power source, while the 2.5” can be supported by the power coming from the USB or FireWire. ... As an alternative to these external HDD, manufacturers have developed an HDD casing that allows you to convert your internal...

Back Up, Back Up, Back Up! by Meryl K. Evans
This is not your typical lost data story. I was a good girl and I kept my files on the network drive just like the company recommended. The only thing I put on my hard drive was junk files - things that wouldn't bother me if the hard drive crashed. But not on the network drive. ... What are the chances of losing the network data AND hard drive data? ... On Wednesday, August 25, I accessed my work from the network drive as always. ... I should've backed up the data onto my hard drive. ... Eventually, I went into File Explorer and accessed my private network drive from there.

Hard Drive Data Recovery Tool by Diana Osan
Hard drive data recovery tools are now widely available. More and more companies are offering hard drive data recovery tools knowing that more and more people are now using computers with hard drives that are generally subject to break down. Also, the hard drive data recovery tools were designed... But, if you want to know what available hard drive data recovery tools are commonly used by hard drive data recovery experts these days, note the following: Restoration Restoration is a hard drive data recovery tool that primarily works to rescue your accidentally deleted files and permanently...

Thumb Drives - Great New Technology! by Mike Burstein
The ability to easily move data from PC to PC with minimal inconvenience is just another benefit computers have brought to the current business world. Over the past few years, the different options to save and move data have multiplied dramatically. Usually the floppy disk (with it's 1.2 MB... The latest innovation, the USB Removable Flash Memory (Thumb Drive, Key Drive, Flash Drive, USB Drive, Micro Drive) brings a whole new meaning to easy transport of data. ... For very little cost you can now conveniently move data between PC's just as easily as accessing the data on your internal hard...

Connecting a Laptop to Multiple Networks by Alexander Lee
Having a notebook or laptop provides the freedom to be truly mobile. You can work in many places and situations. But this brings an annoyance: if you move your notebook between various different networks, you always have to change network settings. Recently my employer has issued me a brand new... Pros: - Cons: hard for inexperienced users, does not deal with switching a proxy server in a web-browser, mapping network drives etc. ... Windows 2000 comes with the "netsh" utility that gives you the possibility to "dump" all network settings into a file which you can later use to restore your...

Evaluating the Best Hard Drive Recovery Software by Diana Osan
Have you ever experienced turning on your computer to find that a virus has wiped much of your hard drive clean? Or, perhaps you’ve even been deleted an email out of your trash bin only to find out that you badly needed the information within it for work? ... The best hard drive recovery software is capable of doing that, and you can even perform data recovery on accidentally deleted emails, from hard drives located within the network, or create image files of your hard drive for a much easier data recovery.