The New Yellow Machine

Anthology Solutions' original Yellow Machine was a compact, bright little box that offered 1TB of networked storage with a built-in router, eight-port 10/100Base-T Ethernet switch, and RAID 5 support so that your data doesn't disappear if one of the four drives gets hosed.



Anthology's new Yellow Machine comes in two new sizes. A 1.6TB model costs $1699 and is available now. A 2.0TB model is a built-to-order option that costs $2499. (The original 1TB model is still available.) New features include Web-based remote access, VPN capabilities, and what Anthology calls Disk Scrubbing Technology (DST). This technology finds infrequently accessed files, checks them for errors, and fixes them if necessary. Anthology says hard drives can potentially write over files?for example old photos and video--that haven't been opened for many months, and DST aims to prevent this.

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