August 6, 2007

New Lanner NAS Server with Media Playing Capabilities

Lanner is set to release a new NAS server to the market that should make a lot of people happy. With 4 bays that can handle SATA drives in either RAID 0,1 and 5 and with 750GB and 1TB drives not that uncommon these days you are looking at a very beefy storage system. Add to that the fact that it can be used as a media server and you might just have found what you are looking for if you need a central storage solution.

It seems that more and more people are realize just how frail hard drives are these days and the fact that they need a backup system for their home unless they don't mind losing their data every so often. We have had enough hard drives crash on us that we now have a dedicated backup server in the house so all of our movies, music and pictures are secure.

Here is the feature list from their site:

Marvel 88F5281 Processor : 30+ MBps read performance with minial power draw.
Large Storage Capacity : Four Serial ATA drives
RAID Data Protection : RAID 0, 1, 5 and JBOD
DHCP and FTP Server : Easy network integration
UPnP AV and iTunes Server : Stream music directly to iTunes or network media device
OS Support : Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Linux and Mac OS X
System backup and restore : Optional software package for business orientated clients

If you don't already have a storage solution and/or you are looking for a way to serve up media to your network without having your main computer on all the time this might work out perfectly for you.

No word on when it will be released, but we will keep you posted when it does.

via akihabaranews

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