Portable harddisk: Western Digital Passport II
Even a notebook with a hard disk of 160GB is reaching its limits - sooner or later. So I decided to buy an portable external hard disk to make smaller backups, save data for transportation issues and to out-source some files which are not required all the time.
NAS Icybox 4220
Finally my NAS has arrived: After quite some research I chose the Raidsonic Icybox IB-NAS4220-B. Here a short resume of what the Icybox 4220 has to offer:
- Gigabit ethernet
- Dual nas supports 2 harddisks (RAID 0, 1, Span, JBOD)
- 2 USB-Hosts (for USB sticks, external hard disks or a print server)
- Samba for Windows networks, NFS (for Linux, Unix), FTP (to access your files via internet), DHCP (automatic network configuration)
- etc.
This is just to mention the most important characteristics. For more details just download the Icybox 4220 datasheet as PDF.
Blog about the Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo si 1520
I just found an interesting blog which has a lot of information about the Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo si 1520, especially when using it with Ubuntu: Sciamanos (?) Amilo Si1520 blog.
Here just a few posts that I think are interesting:
- Using the Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Si 1520 as a navigation system
- How to disable the Synaptics touchpad on the Si 1520 (but I do not have this problem)
- Additional battery for the Si 1520 from an Chinese Ebay-Shop (not sure if I would risk it)
I will definitely keep an eye on this blog. As I am fairly new to Ubuntu/Linux it might help me to solve some problems.
