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Promise Technology, the worldwide leader in SAS/SATA RAID, brings its proven enterprise-class RAID technology to the SOHO/SMB users. SmartStor™ safeguards your digital contents and makes them readily available to networked users.

 
NS4300N Highlights
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Up to four hot-swappable SATA 3Gb/s drives;
provides up to 2TB storage capacity with four 500GB hard drives
Data sharing over Gigabit Ethernet
Enterprise-proven RAID technology with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support
One Touch Backup of designated folders on client PC
SmartSYNC backup for automatic client backup
Snapshot for instant backup and restoration
NAS to NAS replication for remote backup
USB HDDs, Printer and UPS Support
Supports Microsoft ADS; User, Group, and Quota management
FTP/SMB/CIFS/AFP/NFS Network Protocols Support; Shared Storage for Windows, Unix, Linux, MAC clients
Quick and easy-to-use Setup Wizard
Powerful web-based GUI for remote management
E-mail notification for activity/backup status and system errors
Advanced chassis design for minimum power consumption and ultra-quiet operation
 
Simplified resource and file sharing
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As a small footprint BYOD (Bring-Your-Own-Drives) multi-terabyte SATA Network Attached Storage, SmartStor™ NS4300N provides an easy, cost effective solution for SOHO & SMB users to share files and network resources. Support up to four hot-swappable SATA 3Gb/s hard drives, NS4300N allows you to expand capacity as your needs grow at the lowest incremental cost. Comprehensive file sharing protocols support enables cross-platform file services for Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Macintosh. SmartStor™ NS4300N can help to maximize your ROI and productivity by providing a scalable file service and print service solution.
 
 
Advanced data protection and security
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To accommodate the pressing needs of SOHO & SMB users to easily and efficiently protect precious data, SmartStor™ NS4300N offers comprehensive, automatic data protection features.
 
One Touch Backup
enables a quick, automatic client backup at the touch of one button.
SmartSYNC
uses incremental backup to reduce time and space by including only changed files.
Snapshot
takes a real time image of SmartStor™ volume in seconds. Users can restore the specific point-in-time data at file level.
Replication
provides the most cost-effective disaster recovery solution by replicating data from a local NS4300N to a remote NS4300N via internet .
To ensure secure access, SmartStor™ supports HTTPS, domain integration, Microsoft ADS, Unix NIS as well as User, Groups and Quota management.
 
Field-proven RAID technology
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SmartStor™ comes with Promise's field-proven RAID technology. It supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and offers rich enterprise-class RAID features at entry level price. Features include on-line capacity expansion, RAID level migration, advanced error handling (PerfectRAID™), hot spare, and more.
 
....Flexible RAID configurations
RAID 0 – Stripe
Four individual Network Shares
in maximum (all four drives
arrayed into 1-4 volumes)

Performance
Redundancy
Capacity


RAID 1 – Mirror
Two individual Network
Share in Maximun (all four
drives arrayed into 1-2 volumes)

Performance
Redundancy
Capacity

RAID 10 - Mirror/Stripe
One Network Share in a
RAID 10 array (all four drives
arrayed into a single volume)

Performance
Redundancy
Capacity

RAID 5 - Block Striping with Distributed Parity
One Massive Network Share
in a RAID 5 array (all four
drives arrayed into a single
volume with parity)

Performance
Redundancy
Capacity

RAID 5 with Spare Disk
One Network Share in a
RAID 5 array with spare (all
four drives arrayed into a
single volume with parity
and spare)

Performance
Redundancy
w/auto-rebuilding
Capacity

Support Synchronous OCE and RLM*
Benefit:
Allow you to upgrade RAID level and add disks incrementally without any operation interruption, shutting down your NAS or completely delete an existing array to rebuild from scratch with painful data loss.
*OCE: on-line capacity expansion; RLM: RAID level migration
 
Ease of installation and management
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Besides DHCP support for easy network configuration, SmartStor™ NS4300N features various management tools to meet the needs of novices and advanced users. The easy Setup Wizard requires only few clicks to complete installation of the SmartStor™ NS4300N. For Advanced users, the embedded web-based GUI management software, WebPASM, allows the users to fully configure, monitor, shut down, and restart SmatStor™ N4300N locally and remotely.
 
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