AluBoxDuo LAN

INTRODUCTION

If there is one sure thing in the computer world, it is that you never have enough space. I do not know how many times I have increased the hard drive space in my computers and then a few months later realize I just need a bit more. One popular way to increase the storage on a computer is to hook up an external hard drive enclosure to it. The advantages with this solution are that you do not have to open your computer to add a new hard drive and that you can use the enclosure on more than one computer.

If you have more than one computer in your home network you probably want to access the extra storage from all of them at the same time. To achieve this there are several types of external enclosures available that work over the network. AC Ryan has released a range of enclosures and the one that we are reviewing today, the AluBoxDuo LAN, is a NDAS enclosure that not only is supposed to be much faster than a NAS-solution but also offers a couple of extra cool features like aggregation or RAID of the hard drives.

ABOUT AC RYAN

AC Ryan is a company mainly known for their modding products. They sell everything from UV Reactive cable sleeves to special limited edition reservoirs for water cooling. They are very active in the modding world and even run a contest each year for the coolest modded computer.
In addition to their modding products they now also sell various storage related products including the AluBox hard drive enclosures that we are reviewing today.