Today LaCie announced the general availability of the LaCie 12big Rack product range – an enterprise class 2U rack-mounted portfolio, targeted at corporate IT users and video professionals. The LaCie 12big Rack Fibre, LaCie 12big Rack Serial, and LaCie 12big Rack Network, provide (respectively) SAN, DAS and NAS storage solutions that are designed to target the most demanding uses through their performance, customization, minimized downtime and ease-of-use. The range features multipathed 4x 4Gb/s fiber channel connections, dual mini-SAS connection (SFF-8088) or dual 1Gb/s Ethernet connection – making the 12big Rack portfolio a comprehensive storage range.
“I’m very pleased to introduce the 2U rack product range, a natural evolution to LaCie’s 20 years of experience with professional storage solutions. The new portfolio is complementary to LaCie’s existing high end storage, and allows LaCie to support a wider range of professional applications from Corporate IT to content creation and post-production companies,” said Minh Le, LaCie’s Marketing Director. “The LaCie 12big Rack product range provides the highest performance, data security levels, and minimized downtime, with no tradeoffs. We’re now offering our customers a comprehensive, customizable and expandable enterprise solution – starting with 6TB and scaling up to 60TB per storage system.”
Built with Enterprise Class SATA disks, the LaCie 12big Rack product range will ensure data is always available through the redundancy of power supplies, cooling units and a dual-controller option for the LaCie 12big Rack Fibre and the LaCie 12big Rack Serial. The range also offers multiple RAID levels for data protection, from RAID 0, 1, 10, 5 and 50, up to RAID 6 – the 12big Rack storage systems will keep the most critical data safe against two-disk failure. Additionally, the LaCie 12big Rack Fibre’s Advanced Power Management feature and disk verify feature help ensure archived data is duly available upon the customer’s request.
While data security and integrity – even over a long period – is ensured, together with significant power saving features, the 12big Rack portfolio doesn’t compromise on performance. The LaCie 12big Rack Fibre supports a dual Active/Active controllers option and allows up to six streams of 422 uncompressed HD video. As such, the LaCie 12big Rack Fibre enables video-intensive users to edit uncompressed video streams on storage networks; the LaCie 12big Rack Serial is able to achieve similar performance as direct attached storage. Alternatively, the LaCie 12big Rack Network supports link teaming (IEEE 802.3ad) of its dual gigabit connections, allowing users to host critical backups, file sharing or archiving.
Every storage enclosure is expandable through miniSAS (SFF-8088) connections, and can support up to four daisy-chained 2U expansion enclosures depending on the 12big Rack product. Available with an impressive list of compatibilities, in terms of fibre channels switches, fiber channel HBAs, and RAID controllers, the LaCie 12big Rack portfolio has been designed to offer a diverse feature-set and comes with the LaCie Advance Care Option to provide customers with extra peace of mind.
For more information regarding specific features and capabilities, please visit http://www.lacie.com.
Other World Computing (OWC) has just announced the NASPerform fast 10/100BT Ethernet/USB 2.0 Network Attached Storage Solution for home or business networks. With a data storage capacity of up to 750GB, NASPerform effortlessly connects to wired or wireless networks for easy file storage and sharing among multiple network users.
Available for Mac® and Windows®, NASPerform stores and shares photos, music, movies, and other data with up to 20 other network users. NASPerform works just like an internal hard drive. Users just simply point and click, and drag and drop files they wish to access. With its built-in USB 2.0 port, NASPerform can also be used as a portable external hard drive for personal file storage.
Plug N’Play Easy Installation
NASPerform connects directly to any wired or wireless Ethernet network switch or router and comes complete with Ethernet and USB 2.0 connecting cables for Plug N’ Play easy installation. It eliminates the need for complicated TCP/IP settings or a costly server. In addition, NASPeform provides the ability to assign read/write privileges to each network user to prevent unwanted deletion or modification of valuable data. NASPerform’s innovative technology also protects data from external Internet security intrusions.
NASPerform is ideal for:
Multimedia storage (MP3s, digital photos, digital video).
Home networking storage (storing and sharing files, backing up, and archiving).
Network storage for small business.
Data archives, disclosed data, backups, and data conservation storage for public institutions/facilities.
Multi-platform network storage (simultaneous Macintosh and Windows use).
NASPerform Technical Highlights:
• Up to 750GB of bootable disk capacity
• 16MB of data cache
• Ximeta NDAS 2011 chipset
• One RJ-45 100Base-TX Auto MDI/MDI-X port
• One USB 2.0/1.1 5-pin port
• Up to 20 simultaneous connections
• Front panel LED status light: blue when powered on, red & flashing with read/write activity
• Dimensions of 5.2” x 8.7” x 1.8”, 3 lb weight
• External auto-switching 100-240V 50-60Hz 3 amp UL listed power supply included
• 36” double shielded USB 2.0/1.1 and 36” Ethernet RJ-45 connecting cables included
• $200 retail value utility software bundle of ProSoft Engineering® Data Backup 3, NovaStor NovaBACKUP®, and Intech® SpeedTools Utilities™ included with pre-configured solutions
• 1 year OWC warranty
Priced Starting At $127.99
NASPerform is available in five pre-configured 7200RPM solutions, from 250GB to 750GB, priced starting at $127.99 MSRP. A 0GB “add your own drive” enclosure is also available priced at $59.99 MSRP.
Available immediately from Other World Computing at www.macsales.com
For more information on NASPerform, see
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/Network-Attached-Storage/NDAS/