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The Iomega ix4-200d

Iomega have announced their latest new SMB targeted device the ix4-200d coming in various sizes up to 8TB.

The ix4-200d supports various different RAID levels, features dual gigabit ethernet ports, USB and has a LCD display on the front.

This NAS has lots of great features including supporting Time Machine, Active Directory, IP security cameras, UPNP/DNLA and much more.

Read the Linux For Devices article for more information.

The Xtreamer e-Trayz NAS

Xtreamer have posted information on their upcoming e-TRAYz device in their forum. This device at first glance appears to include the standard features you would expect in a typical NAS and features a pretty low price tag for a two bay NAS!

Initially you will need to own one of their media streamer devices to order one of these babies. Also one bit of information for NAS-Central readers from the FAQ:

“Q. Will the eTRAYz be based on open source ?
A. No. The community will not be able to write code to this product nor it will be released.”

Thanks engadget.

The QNAP TS-219P

QNAP have a new Kirkwood based NAS device available – the TS-219P. This features the new 1.2 Ghz Marvell Kirkwood processor, 512 MB RAM and QNAPs new AJAX GUI and promises to be significantly faster than the older, slower Orion based models.

QNAPs products previously came with one of the best manufacturer supplied firmwares for home NAS devices and have good build quality but usually come out a bit more expensive than competing products. Read the review over at The Register and check out the TS-219P product page to see if they are keeping their standards high!

Update: For the curious pictures of the disassembly and internals of the TS-219P and the TS-219 are up at the Debian section of Martin Michlmayrs site.

A quick analysis of the hardware/software running on the new Linkstation Mini is up here in the Buffalo forums. As you might expect this is another Marvell Orion based NAS and fortunately acp_commander still works!

Internal and external up close pictures and discussion of the Kurobox Slim are up here at the Buffalo forum.

A review QNAPs quad disk TS-409 is up here at smallnetbuilder.com – if you are considering a QNAP device also check out their review of the TS-209 pro here.

Debuting in Japan in mid December is the new HDL-GS line of NAS devices from I-O Data. Among its many features are GBit ethernet, disk sizes ranging from 250 GB to 1 TB, an iTunes music server, DNLA compliant media streamer and OS X client as well as Windows.

Another worthy feature of note is its ability to copy photos from a digital camera via USB, which are manageable by a nice web based interface. Oh yes, it has a pretty looking case too.

So looks like it has all the standard features you’d expect from a good consumer NAS device, but what’s inside it? Is this one going to make it outside of Japan? Currently it seems there is zero information about its hardware available, but we’d guess it might be running Linux like its cousin the GLAN Tank.