Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Routers and NAS
As the holiday season approaches, people start thinking about gift ideas. To help you give (or receive) the perfect holiday gift this year I've put together a list of five cool tech gift ideas in the routers and NAS box categories.
Check it out!
Note: All prices are approximate. Shop around for the best deals.
Router - Linksys WRT54GL
Novices love it because it's cheap and easy to set up, while power users love the tweakability and open source nature of the firmware.
The only drawback of this router is that it isn't compatible with the latest 802.11n WiFi standard, but if you can live without that (and most people can), then this is the router for you.
Price: $60 | Find out more: [Reviews]
Router - NETGEAR WNDR3700-100NAS
This fantastically versatile router features a 680MHz MIPS CPU, 8MB of flash storage and 64MB of RAM. Very fast, very reliable, very robust.
This is a very well rounded piece of kit. A superb buy.
Price: $150 | Find out more: [Reviews]
NAS server - Synology DS209 2-bay SATA
The ideal choice for prosumer, professional and business users.
Just add two SATA drives!
Price: $290 | Find out more: [Reviews]
NAS server - Synology DS1010+ 5-bay All-in-1
This is a powerful, fully-featured 5-bay NAS box. It features a 1.6GHz Intel processor, two Ethernet ports, one eSATA port, and four USB 2.0.
This is an all-in-one NAS solution incorporating cool features such as the ability to act as a printer server, web server, FTP server, file server and MySQL server.
Just add five SATA drives.
Price: $799 | Find out more: [Reviews]