History 2005: Wireless HDDs

The Data Storage Institute in Taiwan tried to find a buyer at the last CeBIT for its own technology, the Numida, a wireless HDD containing 20-to-60GB 1.8-inch HDD.

This will be a trend worth tracking, even if the transfer rate of the devices are, to date, very slow, only at 10Mb/s.

These past months, some companies like Asustek, Buffalo Technology, Iomega, LinkSys/ Cisco, Netgear, Tritton Technologies and Ximeta have launched this kind of wireless storage device, generally based on NAS. For the moment their potential is still to be proven because of the slow transfer rate of wireless interface.

This article is an abstract of news published on issue 208 on May 2005 from the former paper version of Computer Data  Storage Newsletter.