Cast your minds back to January this year and you’ll remember that we spent time with VIA at CES in Las Vegas checking out their mammoth 8-bay home server rig, the NSD-7800.
The guys over at Missing Remote have a review of the unit up on the site today, which you should definitely check out if you’re interested in such a large capacity home server.
VIA say:
The VIA NSD7800 addresses the growing need for a compact, user-friendly home server solution as well as NAS, iSCSI, Media Server and NVR applications to offer system integrators a superbly versatile product.
The VIA NSD7800 supports up to eight 3.5″ desktop hard drives and Gigabit networking for fast, efficient file transfer speeds. Powered by a power-efficient VIA C7-D processor it offers a power-efficient, low heat system that can be relied upon in always-on server implementations.
Key Features include:
- Desktop tower design
- Supports eight SATA trays
- Supports one bootable Compact Flash type I slot
- Supports one VIA VT6130 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet and an optioanl 2nd Gigabit Ethernet port for ODM/OEM project requirements
- Supports four USB 2.0 ports
The VIA NSD7800 supports a type-1 compact flash slot for embedded OS installations and uses PCI-Express-based Gigabit networking to handle file transfers quickly and efficiently. A mini-PCI port is also available for additional security related add-in cards such as hardware VPN or anti-virus modules.
LEDs include individual S-ATA port activity, overall hard drive activity, network activity and power. There are also custom LED control and push button backup and recovery options.
The VIA NSD7800 supports Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2007, Windows Home Server and Linux. System monitoring and management includes Wake-on-LAN, Wake-on-Alarm and Watch Dog Timer. A complete driver and SDK is available to customers.
Mike at Missing Remote says:
Overall, this is a terrific product which does everything it says it does and best of all does so while keeping your electricity draw nice and low. With the recent offerings of 2 terabyte drives from Seagate and Western Digital, you could potentially build yourself a solid Windows Home Server with this tiny chassis yet have 16 TERABYTES of Storage! That’s a lot of Blu-ray…err….home movies.
Great review with lots of detail and photography – go check it out.
More Info: Missing Remote
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