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MicroNet NAS offers 16 TB storage capacity

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TORRANCE, CALIFORNIA: MicroNet Technology, a provider of storage solutions for small and medium businesses and enterprises (SMBs), today announced an extension to its MaxNAS product line with the introduction of the first rackmount MaxNAS units.

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The new MaxNAS 1u and 2u hold four and eight 3.5-inch SATA drives respectively. and can be configured with 1 or 2 terabyte drives, delivering up to 16 TBs of shared storage capacity for the most demanding storage-centric applications. The appliances are stackable, allowing up to six devices to be connected in a rack and managed as a single volume, making capacity expansion quick and easy and giving administrators the ability to manage 96 TBs as a single, high density network storage pool, said a press release.

The built-in iSCSI targets provides an affordable IP SAN alternative for SMB and SME. When configured you can set up the servers to access the device as direct-attached-storage over LAN or Internet via the high-speed Gigabit Ethernet connection and enabling network administrator to centrally manage and deploy storage for their entire network.

The product engineered to meet the demanding 24/7 uptime requirements for SMB shared network storage and ensure continued access and data integrity even in the rare case of dual drive failures, said the release.

 “With the unrelenting growth in email archives, databases and digital content there is nothing small about the storage capacity challenges facing SMBs and SMEs today,” said Adi Antariksa, director of Sales –RAID Products at MicroNet.

He added that the new MaxNAS R4 and R8 are optimized to meet the needs of SMB and SME storage environments with designs that allow customers to protect their storage hardware investment and grow storage with the business.