Most campuses offer insurance policies for your dorm room. They aren't that expensive ($25-50) and will replace the gear if your stuff gets stolen. Granted it won't keep your stuff or data from being lost...but it will help replace it.
The Ximeta drive is a NDAS drive not an NAS drive. These two technologies are very different. NAS allows you to simply plug it in to the network and it is viewed as a network drive. The NDAS drives you must install software and drivers to use it. The drivers allow you to utilize the drive as a local drive that is viewed within My Computer. The USB segment does not require any special drivers, it just uses the standard Windows drivers to use it. Yes it requires you to enter special serials to read and write to the drive, but that ability to limit other's access to your drive is a security plus for me. Plus you can buy a smaller sized Ximeta drive (80 GB) and remove the HD and replace it with a 200-250 GB drive if you want to save a few $.
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Makes sense considering the plan to unify the kernel and APIs.
Reminds me of the ED-209 from RoboCop.
Just use a scale based on how much they glow.
Maybe Intel is just jealous because to hand-crank power a Pentium 4 laptop would take you a few hours.
Yay! Now we can send Instant Messages at blazing speeds! (If you think I'm serious you deserve to be hurt)
Most campuses offer insurance policies for your dorm room. They aren't that expensive ($25-50) and will replace the gear if your stuff gets stolen. Granted it won't keep your stuff or data from being lost...but it will help replace it.
The Ximeta drive is a NDAS drive not an NAS drive. These two technologies are very different. NAS allows you to simply plug it in to the network and it is viewed as a network drive. The NDAS drives you must install software and drivers to use it. The drivers allow you to utilize the drive as a local drive that is viewed within My Computer. The USB segment does not require any special drivers, it just uses the standard Windows drivers to use it. Yes it requires you to enter special serials to read and write to the drive, but that ability to limit other's access to your drive is a security plus for me. Plus you can buy a smaller sized Ximeta drive (80 GB) and remove the HD and replace it with a 200-250 GB drive if you want to save a few $.