Promise delivers the $700 NAS

June 5, 2009:RAID supplier Promise Technology has announced the availability of the SmartStor NS4600 Network Attached Storage and Digital Media Server for Home, SOHO and Small Business.

It supports up to 4 SATA 3G Hard Drives (not included) and is built on Intel’s EP80579 Processor running at 600 MHZ, includes 256MB of DDRII Memory, 1 Ethernet, 2 USB 2.0 Ports and 1 eSATA Port.

The internal Power Supply has been removed and replaced with an external Power Adapter that is secured by a removable door.

Support for RAID 0, 1, 5 and 0+1 is offered plus Gigabit Ethernet with a number of operating systems including OS X, Windows, Linux and Unix. Other features include Active Directory Integration, support for Apple’s Bonjour technology, Download Station, File Sharing over Internet, Hot-plug, NAS to NAS Replication, One Click Configuration, One Touch Backup, Snapshot, True Hot-Swap, Remote Access Media Center, Scheduled Backup, User Quota Management, Wake-on-LAN and Web Server.