Edit Tools: Addonics NAS Adapter

Also enables FTP access for up to eight simultaneous users. Price: $55

Buying or building your own network-attached storage (NAS) device is useful; a NAS device allows you to easily hook up multiple computers and share files. Addonics makes it cheaper and easier than ever with its plug-and-play NAS Adapter, which allows you to quickly add any USB storage device into your LAN. Not much bigger than a USB flash drive, the product employs Samba, the open-source network protocol that allows cross-platform access via Windows, Mac OS X, and various Linux flavors. The NAS Adapter also functions as a print server.