Thecus Technology is one of those companies who focus purely on storage. From Direct Attached Storage devices, Multimedia devices, and from SOHO to Enterprise Network Attached Storage Devices. Just announced today is the latest member of their Enterprise solutions, the N7700PRO NAS device.
With 7 bays of goodness, RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 and JBOD capabilities, there can’t be much to not like. Combining this array of storage flexibility is the horsepower to go with it:
With the N7700PRO, blistering performance is the name of the game. At its core is an Intel® Core 2 Duo CPU and a whopping 4GB of high-speed DDR2 800 memory, making it the most powerful NAS unit available. In fact, with its PCI-e slot, the N7700PRO can reach data transfer speeds of over 300MB/s by adding a PCI-e 1Gb Ethernet adapter! All of this raw power easily manipulates large amounts of data – perfect for the N7700PRO’s seven 3.5” SATA drive bays that can accommodate up to 14TB of storage. Need even more storage at your disposal? With its stackable feature, you can connect up to five N7700PROs together and easily manage them all via a master unit. The N7700PRO is even compatible with iSCSI initiators and supports iSCSI thin provisioning for added performance and flexibility.
No information on pricing, but since this NAS device is the new top dog in the Thecus product line, it won’t be cheap.
One sweet looking unit. I have got to get me one of these (items to try out!)
More Info: Thecus N7700PRO
16. October 2009 at 3:32 am
Cool. I look forward to seeing WHS run on this. How can Windows Home Server take advantage of the Disk-on-Module?
16. October 2009 at 6:16 am
<qoute>the N7700PRO can reach data transfer speeds of over 300MB/s by adding a PCI-e 1Gb Ethernet adapter! </qoute>
How can it get 300MB/s on 1Gb ethernet? When the maximum transfer speed of 1Gb is about 119MB/s (theoretic)?
16. October 2009 at 6:46 am
Hehe I think a mistake on the manufacturers part. They confused internal transfer rates with network rates.
16. October 2009 at 1:55 pm
I think it is supposed to be listed as 10GbE…
Making the theoretic limit of 1250MB/s
My current 1Gb on my WHS maxes out at 74.5MB/s. Basically at this point it is purely bottle necked at disk speed.
17. October 2009 at 12:00 am
That was my first thought too, but the manufactures website only lists gigabit. It is 10GbE i checked a third party.
19. October 2009 at 6:11 am
Still, who have a 10GbE switch?
17. October 2009 at 12:19 pm
Sorry im new to this. How would I install WHS onto this machine. I have the WHS OEM.
18. October 2009 at 8:20 pm
Can WHS be installed on this machine?
18. October 2009 at 8:25 pm
Not easily, but I have heard of WHS being installed on NAS drives – usually the processors are lacking sufficient power.
21. October 2009 at 11:28 am
Cheers Terry. I'll go for the HP then and save some cash.