These new Home Network Drives announced by Iomega today come in 320 gb and 500 gb flavors for $149 and $199 each. The devices are priced in the same ballpark as their USB only counterparts, and sbould be worth a look when they hit shelves soon.
via gizmodo
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2007/08/iomega_launches_affordable_320.html
It seems these things share via Samba, unlike earlier Iomega network drives which needed a (Windows-only) client app installed. This is a good step forward, I hope more manufacturers make drives like this, previous smb-only drive housings have been prohibitively expensive for home use.
Whilst this is quite affordable, only AU$50 or AU$60 more than a 500Gb drive itself costs, I wonder how well it cools the drive? 500Gbs are known for running substantially hotter than lesser capacity drives.
I’d be inclined to stick with an Antec MX-1 and Netgear NSLU2. It might cost a bit more, but you’re not going to be slowly cooking your data into oblivion.
(Plus, you can run Linux on the NSLU2 and use it as a router, but that’s another story…)