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My laptop is about to explode due to both partitions being critically full, and I'm now looking at network storage devices in the 1 TB range. Currently I can't decide between the Western Digital My Book Studio and the Linksys Media Hub. I have compared them below:

Western Digital MyBook killer features

Available USB port, FireWire 800 or 400 port, eSATA port or eSATA adapter card

Ranges from 1 TB to 4 TB of storage

Claims to be ideal for video editing, rendering complex 3D objects or special effects and saving huge blocks of data in record time

User serviceable - easy to add and remove drives

Capacity gauge - visualises how full the drive is

Remote access

Aimed towards business users

I have access to the 1 TB model of this device at work and it seems to work well

LinkSys Media Hub killer features

The Media Hub is capable of streaming three simultaneous high-definition video streams (i.e. fast)

Remote streaming and downloads

Media card readers (useful for direct photograph import from camera)

2 easy acces hard-drive bays

Aimed towards home user

My network is already LinkSys based, so intergation should be a breeze

At the moment I'm leaning towards the LinkSys media hub since most of my file transactions will be through the wireless network and I trust LinkSys (a networking company) to have mastered this moreso than Western Digital (a storage company). What are your thoughts?