hola...i'm back...went to the PC Fair April 2011 last weekend to grab some gadgets...pushed off from home at about 8.30 am and went to have breakfast first together with my parents as they were around...we pushed out early coz expecting it will be a massive crowd there at the PC Fair based on previous track records...even though we arrived there before 11 am, the crowd was already quite packed...our objective there was to get a NAS (Network Attached Storage), RAM for my laptop, an SDC and a micro SDC card and a wireless optical mouse...can't remember how many halls were taken up by the PC Fair...i think there was about 5 or 6 halls...all major brand products and big names in the industry were there...from HP, Dell, HTC, Western Digital, Seagate, Buffalo, Kingston, to name a few and many, many other brands...
we first went to the Western Digital & Seagate booth as were looking for a NAS...the one that we targetted was Buffalo as Buffalo has much more features compared to Western Digital & Seagate for the same capacity size and for the price...for 2TB, u can get a Buffalo NAS at RM499 and the same as well as Seagate at the same price...however, for Western Digital, for 2TB, it was a little bit higher...around RM500 plus...we then proceeded to the 2nd hall as the brand Buffalo was not exhibited there....the next hall was for audio & speaker gadgets...not interested, so skipped that...then went to the hall where smart phones & laptops were exhibited....not in the target list, skipped as well...then we headed down to the lower floor and came to the hall where things there are much more interesting...we then found the Buffalo booth...after doing some thinking whether to pick up the 1TB or 2TB, we decided to straight away get the 2TB as we do not have to worry much about storage as 2TB of size was more than enough for the both of us...the price of the 2TB Buffalo NAS was RM499...quite a good bargain given the capacity and the features that it has....
for those who do not know what a NAS (Network Attached Storage) is, it's a hard drive that u plug to your home router instead of your PC...the advantage of having a NAS instead of having a normal portable hard drive that plugs to your PC, u do not have to plug it to your PC each time u want to transfer or access files from your hard drive...then u have the privillege to share to anyone who was access to your network...for example me & my wife can access files in the NAS at the same time without us needing to individually plug the hard drive to our PC...what's more, if u know how to tweak the NAS, u can even access your files even though u are not at home via internet connection...even though u are thousand miles away from home, u can access your files at home given that your home has internet connection (and u don't it off ofcourse :P)...some of the other features that the Buffalo NAS has are, built in torrent client, DLNA support, Web Access (which i've explained about accessing files when u are not at home) to name a few...for more info, u can go to their website at http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/home-and-small-office/linkstation-live-ls-chl/ ....
after purchasing the NAS, me & my wife then went to get our other targetted items, a 2GB RAM for my laptop, an SD and a micro SD card and a wireless optical mouse which we got it for only RM30...the name of the brand was A4 tech...a brand starting to establish itself to be at par with the likes of Logitech & Microsoft...although cheap, the mouse was not bad...SD card was RM25 for 4GB and micro SD card was RM88 for 16GB...after we got we wanted, we then made a move to the klcc food court to have some dessert and get some food to bring back...after that, it was time to hit back home to explore the gadgets that we bought...hehehe~...
stay tuned guys for my next post~...cheers~....
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