Linksys by Cisco Media Hub

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The Pitch: The Media Hub gathers, organizes, and presents all the digital video, photos and music spread amongst various devices in the home. And an easy-to-use interface allows you to get to all that media from anywhere you can get to a browser.

Pros: This is from he folks at Linksys, where they get the concept of “easy.” It allows you to step up to as much as two terabytes of storage by just lifting a lid and slamming in an additional drive, voila, presto, just like that. It connects not just to computers, including a Mac, but other media devices, like your DVR. Now that’s what we call whole-network storage and backup. But its biggest virtue is that it makes backup easy — a ton of prevention that feels like a mere pound of work.

Cons: You can get the Media Hub for as little as $299 (500 GB) or as much as $429 (a terabyte), but, either way, that’s a hefty price to pay for an amount of storage most of us don’t come close to needing just yet.

Recommendation: Although the Media Hub is likely to encounter limited demand from mainstream consumers, this products promises to set some new benchmarks by way of ease of use. That alone is enough to move it ahead in the Last Gadget Standing competition.

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