Maxtor is betting your home network is bursting at the seams with data needing back up support and is therefore unveiling a new home NAS solution. It is called the Maxtor Central Axis and you’ll find it pricing at around $330.

The Maxtor Central Axis offers you a generous 1TB of NAS storage to fill with your travel photos and MP3s. The drive allows for each computer in the home to be automatically backed up and files can be accessed and stored from both Mac OS X and Windows operated PCs.

The folks over at Buffalo Technology want to put a massive amount of storage in the palm of your hand - 1TB to be specific. The computer equipment manufacturer is accomplishing this task through the release of its LinkStation Mini (LS-WS1.0TGL/R1), priced at around $700.

The Buffalo LinkStation Mini delivers 1TB of storage to you via its dual drive design. It can be configured for either RAID 0 or RAID 1, depending upon your data needs, and sports an auto-sensing Ethernet port so it can act as a network attached storage device. The drives themselves are 5,400 RPM, 2.5-inch notebook drives.

A company by the name of Ripfactory which offers professional CD ripping services is adding a new piece of hardware to its product line. It is called the Ripserver and it will cost you somewhat above $1,400 for a 1 TB model.

The Ripserver from Ripfactory is a network area storage device with a built-in CD ripping solution. One inserts a CD into its slimline slot and lets the Ripserver do the rest. It automatically copies the CD’s music, ejects it and makes the music available on one’s network for listening or transfer to a digital music player.

Buffalo has recently added the LinkStation Pro Duo as one of the latest to their lineup of NAS products, targeting small or home businesses in need of an affordable and stable solution for large capacity data storage.

The Pro Duo currently comes in a 1TB configuration with the option of either RAID 0 or RAID 1 redundant 3.5″ SATA drives. It connects to your network via 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet as an Active Directory client and also has Buffalo’s Web Access technology allowing you to access data stored on the drive remotely from anywhere via the web. It even has included software that lets you start it up remotely.

The people from LaCie never seem to rest. The latest product from the bowels of this storage device company is the LaCie 2big Network, available in November in various storage sizes up to 2TB.

The LaCie 2big Network is designed as a backup solution for small office environments. It sports a Gigabit Ethernet connection and two RAID modes for mirroring each other or providing larger storage capacity. A web-based administration page lets one offer customized access to various users both in the network and for remote access.

LaCie has really been busy of late cranking out new storage devices. Its latest product, announced today, is a home version of its Ethernet Disk mini NAS drive. The LaCie Ethernet Disk mini – Home Edition is priced at around $200 and will be available in October.

The LaCie Ethernet Disk mini – Home Edition is a 500GB personal media server which offers Gigabit Ethernet and USB 2.0 connectivity. It allows users the ability to offer remote access to others for files stored on it and can also be used to back up and synchronize a home computer automatically. It also lets one stream multimedia files through DLNA-compatible UPnP media players and acts as an iTunes music server.

Iomega is back in tech news today announcing a new line of network hard drives designed for network storage at home. The Iomega Home Network Hard Drives come in 320GB ($200), 360GB ($150) and 500GB ($200) storage sizes.

The Iomega Home Network Hard Drives make use of 10/100 Ethernet technology to enable network storage. A Windows utility is included to get the drive connected to each PC which will share the drive. The drives inside are 7200 RPM SATA-II hard drives with an 8MB cache.

Other World Computing is looking to offer you some pretty serious home or business network attached storage options with its new NASPerform device. This NAS offering is available in five pre-configured solutions up to 750GB maximum and has a starting price of around $128.

The OWC NASPerform, available for both Mac and Windows based machines, can connect to a local network through Ethernet to offer storage and sharing of photos, music, movies and other data with up to 20 users. The NASPerform also comes with a USB 2.0 port, allowing one to use it as a portable external USB hard drive.

One of the few notable moments in Bill Gates’s yawn-worthy opening keynote address was the official introduction of Windows Home Server, a version of Windows designed specifically for devices like HP’s MediaSmart Server. Added to a home network (which can include PCs and Xboxes), it will perform automatic backups, share files to every device on the network, and allow access to your stuff from any Internet-connected machine, all features previously reserved for high-end commercial networks, available in your humble abode later this year.

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The Buffalo LinkStation Pro is a home network storage device that is more like a corporate file server than an external USB drive. This NAS unit comes with its own processor, Gigabit Ethernet networking and SATA drives. So in fact this little unit is a stand alone file server.

Speed issues with other models seems to have been alleviated with the usage of a Gigabit network connection and of course the inclusion of faster hard drives. Buffalo claims that the speed of this unit rivals a …