Addonics NAS 4.0 Adapter ($89)

Addonics Technologies, Inc. announced the Addonics NAS 4.0 Adapter, to share as many as 16 hard drives over a LAN with 1EB per drive volume.

 
The NAS 4.0 is Addonics’ 4th generation NAS adapter with several enhancements. It comes with two eSATA ports that allows users to attach two eSATA or two USB 2.0 storage devices onto the LAN, or as many as 16 storages devices (or drive volumes) using USB hubs or SATA port multipliers. With these drives, you can share multi-terabyte storage over a LAN or build your own private cloud storage that can be accessed via the built-in FTP server.
 
One exabyte equals one million terabytes and demand for such big data tools is already taxing the storage capacity of scientific researchers, online game providers, digital video studios, stock markets, government and military installations and financial services companies.

Performance of the NAS 4.0 adapter has quadrupled from the previous adapter to more than 75MB/sec over a 1GbE network. Both the maximum number of SMB and FTP accounts, as well as the concurrent users supported by the NAS 4.0, is expanded to support over thousands and hundreds respectively.

The NAS 4.0 also supports storage devices with multiple partitions, with each partition appearing as a share folder on the network. The supported file system now includes XFS, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, NTFS and FAT32. A storage solution exceeding thousands of terabytes can be built by attaching multiple Addonics RAID towers or racks.

Constructed in a metallic housing in the size of a cigarette pack, the NAS 4.0 adapter is built can be deployed in almost any computing environment.

The NAS 4/0 has a MSRP of $89 and is shipping.

Addonics products are available through the company online store, catalog companies, resellers, VARs and distributors, including Amazon.com, PC Connection, CDW, Buy.com, Insight, and Ingram Micro.