Highly Reliable Systems Releasing RAIDFrame Plus NAS

Highly
Reliable Systems Inc. based in Reno, NV, has released
the RAIDFrame
Plus to address the need for large format backup in
the SMB market. The system is a NAS appliance built for backup with
removable drive packs.

The 4U rack mount product is configured using
any browser (headless) or with a local monitor and keyboard and works
with most backup software.

Darren McBride, CEO for Highly Reliable
Systems, says the title for the largest removable backup media has
belonged to the firm for several years now. They use cartridges
called RAIDPacs that include 3 SATA drives and an integrated RAID 0/5
controller. Each RAIDpac can store up to 12TB using 4TB drives. The
RAIDFrame Plus holds up to 4 packs.

"Backing up incremental daily
changes to the cloud is great but it doesn‘t provide a
way to do same day restores for large data sets" says
McBride.

The product is able to mirror RAIDPacs.
RAID0+1, RAID5+1, JBOD, multiple mirrors, and scheduled mirroring are
all supported. Duplicated RAIDPacs can be pulled while keeping a
primary pack online, meaning that the backup software never sees the
backup volume change.

McBride says this assures software
compatibility. Mirroring also means the NAS can provide primary
storage for users, while creating a ‘softwareless backup’ to
additional RAIDPacs. Data is mirrored at up to 850GB per hour so when
a 12TB RAIDPac is swapped it duplicates to the new one in about 14
hours.

RAIDPacs are self-contained, and
designed to be accessed without the RAIDFrame by plugging them into
SATA or USB 3.0 ports. The appliance attaches via GbE
(10GbEet optional). RAID management software is provided that
will email the user upon failure. Remote monitoring and management
tools can be used.

A Windows Storage Server version of
the product is available, and both versions will join Windows
Domains.