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Teardown Analysis of the Ximeta Consumer Network-Attached Storage Device
2 November 2004
 
Jeremey Donovan  

The Ximeta NetDisk 80GB USB 2.0/Ethernet media server is a network-attached storage device. Using a lightweight application-specific integrated circuit gives the vendor a cost advantage compared with its competition.




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Table of Contents


    
 ANALYSIS

    
 Media Servers vs. NAS
    
 Teardown Analysis of the Ximeta NetDisk 80GB USB 2.0/Ethernet Hard Drive
    
 Gartner Dataquest Perspective


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Table 1.  
 Media Capacity of an 80GB HDD
 

Table 2.  
 Teardown of Ximeta NetDisk 80GB USB 2.0/Ethernet Media Server
 



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