Sans Digital MobileNAS MN4LA+B

Sans Digital is announcing MobileNAS MN4LA+B, a 4-bay iSCSI and NAS unified storage tower utilizing theATOM based Dual Core D510 CPU with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports.

Based on the existing popular EliteNAS and MobileNAS series that range from 1U 4-bay to 8U 50-bay rackmounts, the MN4LA+B provides the same capability of supporting both NAS and iSCSI simultaneously while increasing the performance with double amount of bandwidth when compared to the MN4L+B.

Small business and enterprise both face the same challenges with today‚s information technology: the needs to have continuous expansion of their shared data storage, with minimum maintenance overhead and maximum return on investment. Supporting Windows, Apple and Linux based network, with a total of 8TB of storage space, the MobileNAS MN4LA+B is an excellent choice for SMB (Small Medium Business) who demands great performance on a budget for its network storage expansion.

Utilizing the latest Intel based ATOM D510 1.66 GHz Dual Core CPU and 1 Gigabyte of DDR II 667 MHz of memory, four virtual CPUs (Dual Core combined with Hyper-Threading) are working simultaneously to provide network performance of over 80MB/s in RAID 6. Low power requirement on the Intel ATOM based CPU also allows MN4LA+B to generate less heat and requires less power consumption which coincides with Sans Digital‚s commitment to contribute to a more ‘Greener’ earth.

Hard drive failures are protected by built-in RAID 1, 5 or 6 with four hot-swappable trays to minimize downtime in an unlikely event that one or two (RAID 6) hard drive fails. The built-in event log and e-mail notification of critical errors inform IT administrator with a wealth of information from critical errors to changes made to the system configuration. The dual Gigabit Ethernet ports provide features such as network port bonding for failover and load balancing. Virtualization such as VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V is also supported.

The MN4LA+BŒs built-in NAS-to-NAS folder replication and snapshot feature allows simple data backup to the same or different MobileNAS or EliteNAS based storage. "The MN4LA+B is packed with high performance and redundancy features that is previously only available to large enterprise NAS products," quoted by Stanley Chan, Director of Business Development of Sans Digital. "They can now enjoy the features of the enterprise level storage without paying a premium for it."