MyDitto Simplifies Networked Attached Storage with USB-key Access

Posted 01/06/2010 at 3:33pm | by Bart Salisbury

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Network attached storage (NAS) is a great idea. Once set-up the contents of the NAS are available from almost anywhere you can plug into the network. That’s theory anyway. Reality is getting into a NAS, especially from a remote location, can be a daunting task, even for the NAS-initiated. Dane-Elec has a solution, myDitto, that promises to make the task easier.

Step one, like for NAS everywhere, is set-up. Nothing different here. The myDitto has two bays for 3.5-inch SATA drives, and is RAID 0 or 1 capable. It can handle up to 4 TB of storage. It has a pair of USB 2.0 port and gigabit ethernet. And it supports DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) and iTunes media.

Step two, getting access, is a simple matter--just plug in the myDitto USB key to a computer and the data on your NAS becomes available. Dane-Elec says it doesn’t matter where that computer is, so long as it is Internet or network attached. Nothing to configure. Nothing to remember (except where you last put that lousy USB key).

This ease-of-use doesn’t come cheap. The 1 TB model, which is to be released in March, is priced at $249.

Image Credit: Dane-Elec