Addonics Announces Portable and Low-Cost NAS Adapter
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:06 am
Addonics Announces A Small, Portable and Low-Cost NAS (Network Attached Storage) Adapter With Double the Performance on Gigabit Networks
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SAN JOSE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Feb 01, 2010 Addonics Technologies (http://www.addonics.com) today announced the NAS 2.0 adapter, a second generation of the small and portable Addonics NAS adapter.
The NAS 2.0 adapter provides a transfer rate of approximately 15-20 MBps when connected to a Gigabit network. This doubles the transfer rate of the Addonics original NAS adapter
The NAS 2.0 adapter supports both SMB (Server Message Block) and the open source Samba network protocols. This allows cross-platform access of all shared data for most versions of Windows, Mac OS X, and various Linux distributions.
For remote users who are not connected over a LAN, the NAS 2.0 Adapter provides FTP access for up to eight simultaneous users with Internet connections anywhere in the world. In addition, the NAS 2.0 adapter can also be used as a bit-torrent downloading appliance for direct download to the attached USB storage device.
Besides the ability to convert any USB 2.0 hard drive or SSD into a Network Attached Storage device, the NAS 2.0 adapter has two high speed USB 2.0 ports; one for connecting USB 2.0 / 1.1 mass storage devices and one for connecting USB printer to share over a network.
The new adapter, which is lightweight and simple to install, can be set as an UPnP AV server to share photo/music files stored on the file server with XBOX 360 video game consoles connected to the LAN.
List price is $59.99
For more information visit http://www.addonics.com/products/nas/NAS2XU2.asp.
Addonics products are available through the company online store http://www.shopaddonics.com, major catalog companies, resellers, VARs and distributors.
About Addonics
Addonics Technologies Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets a broad line of external and mobile storage products. Addonics is headquartered at 1918 Junction Ave, San Jose, CA 95131. Phone: 408-573-8580.