Digital Trends

Snap Appliance Snap Server 1100

April 7th, 2004 | by Douglas MacLean

Overview

With the increasing popularity of digital music, file sharing and digital photos, families and home computer users are hungry for more and more storage space. Disk storage is relatively inexpensive, but adding another drive to an existing computer is not always the easiest or safest way to back up and store data.

Enter the networked storage device. Several companies are offering storage solutions specifically designed to address these concerns for both home and small office users. The Snap Server 1100 by SnapAppliance is one such device.

This relatively small black box is an easy to configure file server that connects to your network and according to the company, can be serving up files less than five minutes after you pop open the box. Just plug the power in, connect the Ethernet cable and make a few configuration settings and you have 80 gigs of shared storage. The unit is instantly compatible with just about any network and any operating system out there and even features FTP and HTTP file access, making it ideal for the home or any small business.

According to SnapAppliance, the Snap Server 1100 is the most popular NAS (network attached storage) device on the market, with over 50,000 units sold.

The Snap Appliance Snap Server 1100 80GB NAS server.