"It's actually plug and play. So the drive has discovery tool software that will go out and discover the PCs and assign a drive letter to the PC."
So the various PCs can access MP3 music files or photos for instance. A 160 gigabyte drive sells for 249 dollars. Iomega is also creating the same kind of drive with a wireless network connection built in. It can also double as a wireless access point… The company's Steven Mudrow…
This is the only NAS box on the market today that gives you a wireless access point in this form factor. So we've got a brick here no bigger than my hand that gives you wireless access points up to 100 meters indoors, 400 meters outdoors."
But the wireless capability doubles the price of a 160 gigabyte drive to about five hundred dollars. Bloomberg Boot Camp, I'm Fred Fishkin.