Landisk NS347 NAS

Author: Ian Cunningham
Published on: 04-03-2008
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Introduction

An Introduction to the Landisk NS347 NAS

The Landisk NS347 Hard Drive Enclosure is a very cost effective way of adding extra storage space to your network. This is more often called a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device, as it simply hooks up to your existing wired LAN and provides network shared storage. At under £30 it is one of the cheapest NAS devices available.

The specifications of this particular drive are as follows:

• Supports 3.5-inch IDE / FAT32 HDD
• 10/100 Base-T / Auto MDI / MDI-X
• SMB/FTP for LAN / WAN file sharing-system
• DHCP server / client, Auto/static IP
• Web-based management, administrator / password
• USB 2.0 / Ethernet LAN 10/100 connection for PC or MAC
• OS support ME/2000/XP/Vista, MAC OS X, Linux
• Power: DC12V (included)

It is important to note that this device will only accept an IDE drive, however this may actually be a benefit to some users as it provides a cheap way of reclaiming an old drive as network storage.

The casing has a brushed metal finish and has a surprising feel of quality about it, and looks rather stylish. It would be particularly suited to owners of brushed aluminium tower cases:

The read of the unit features a USB 2.0 port which allows you to attach this to a PC and use as an external drive, a handy extra feature should you wish to use the Landisk as a portable storage device. Next, is an ON/OFF switch should you wish to turn the drive off at any point, to the right of this is the LAN port to connect the drive to your network. The final connector is for the 12V power supply: