Iomega NAS Devices Are High-Performance SSD Solutions

When hearing of a NAS (network-attached storage) device, one likely thinks of medium to large-size devices that house one or more HDDs so that they may be possible to access by any PC connected to a network, but Iomega decided to try something a little different.

Users that keep track of things on the consumer and business markets will have probably learned of Iomega and its storage products.

It is this very company that created the StorCenter PX Series of NAS devices, only it made them do more than just store HDDs.

Indeed, what the outfit implemented was support for solid state drives, although the extra speed will, naturally, come at the cost of capacity.

Three members exist, one of them a rackmount device and the other two being desktop models, meaning that they have the regular, tower-like shape.

The rackmount is known as the StorCenter px4-300r Network Storage Array unit and has four bays, meaning that up to 12 TB of storage are possible with four HDDs.

It is sold alone or with 8TB or 12 TB storage, at prices of $2,300 to $3,800, so that SMBs (small to medium businesses) can have some room to maneuver, financially speaking.

Meanwhile, the desktop models, Iomega StorCenter px4-300d and the px6-300d, also have up to 12 TB storage (other options include 8 TB and 4 TB, besides the drive-less ones).

Their starting prices are of roughly $800 and $1,200, while their maximum ones are $3,000 and $4,000, respectively.

Users can configure the hot-swappable HDDs or SSDs in multiple RAID levels, for extra speed and security.

As for the hardware, a dual-core Intel processor (Atom on the desktop models and Celeron on the rackmount) is accompanied by 2 GB of RAM (random access memory) and iSCSI integration, among other things. Shipments will start on May 11.