This server is a snap to setup. It is simple to manage and maintain, yet it can provide the small or medium size business with everything it needs in a file server.

The Gigadrive, designed and built by a Cisco subsidiary, features built-in disk utilities, accessible through your web browser. You can run a self test, and scan or defrag the disks. You can back up one drive to the other, either manually or on a schedule. Additional quick-connect hard drive trays are available, so you can quickly swap the backup drive to create rotating backups. Drive to drive backup has been much more reliable than drive to tape and our small business clients prefer this type of backup.

For even more flexibility and utility, the Gigadrive can be set up to be accessible directly from the Internet -- up or downloading files either via a web browser, or by FTP. Files can be available publicly, or create password-protected accounts for your authorized users. You can even use the Gigadrive as an Internet print server, saving fax machine phone charges and using the internal hard drive space to spool and print high-resolution color pages from anywhere in the world. The Gigadrive can also be used to just add more storage to an existing network when functioning as a NAS.