Jack In The Box - Because You Love To Pirate
- April 11th, 2007
- 2 Comments
I would absolutely love one of these to keep my, ah, “home movie” collection on. Jack In The Box MZK-NAS02 is essentially a NAS with two SATA bays plus a dedicated Bit Torrent client built-in. Using a web-based interface, you can control the Bit Torrent and NAS functions easily, allowing you to pirate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from any location in the world. Jack is capable of RAID 0 or 1 arrays and supports hot-swapping drives. Have a speedy internet connection in your home office? Take advantage of it by using Jack’s Gigabit Ethernet connection or add your own media via the SD/MCC card slot on the front of the device.
Now before you clean your saliva up, pick your tongue up off the floor etc., we should warn you that Jack In The Box is currently Japan only and there is no official US release date in sight. The expected cost for the device is around $333 and no word yet on if you’ll be able to easily import it.
Jack In The Box: BitTorrent-Enabled Network Storage Guaranteed To Spook RIAA [Gizmodo]
Tom (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Merge the features of this thing and the drobo together and you’d have something drool-worthy!
seriousness (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Drobo definitely seems convenient, but this unit serves a different purpose all together.
Drobo’s main function is basically a storage device. Its USB connected so not networked, and while you can connect it to an aiport of Router with USB storage interface…its still not functioning as a TRUE NAS.
Must remember that the future functions of NAS does not only serve as storage. When DLNA and DTCP/IP truly start kicking in, you will see the entertainment industry start to support movie downloads. We are talkin legitimate downloads with high-bandwith servers allowing max quality movie downloads in minutes…not piratebay torrents (as much as i love PB)…
The downloaded media will have strict copy protection and most likely you will need to save it in a certain location permanently, for moving/transferring will most likely be restricted(1time copy only type protection).
This is where true NAS devices play their part, being able to stream the data with embedded DLNA 1.5 compliant media server applications.
To the TV, to your PC or handheld devices…this is what networked storage solutions like the Terastation or Planex’s Jack in the box provides.
Not only do NAS’s provide a media library that will be (future) premium content compliant, but stuff such as printer server and itunes server also are features that allow the NAS to truely allow multiple PC’s to share media.
While Drobo is great for standard storage solution for a single PC, I can’t see it being a true media library for the copyright crazy future of the home media center…