Netstor Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis, Optical TB Application

Netstor Announces Three PCIe Slots with Storage Thunderbolt™
Expansion Chassis for Video Professionals

March 26, 2013 Taipei, Taiwan — Netstor is pleased to release a new recruit to its Thunderbolt family, the NA211TB-LD, which is the Thunderbolt 3 PCIe slots expansion chassis with internal storage supporting up to four 2.5-inch SSDs or SAS/SATA hard disks. Thus, through the pioneering combo enclosure, combinations of professional PCIe cards as well as large capacity, high-performance RAID storage can be conveniently added to any Thunderbolt computer for work. The solution of NA211TB-LD with PCIe cards and storage not only features high mobility for every user in any work environment, but also allows professionals to reduce cost to investing in specialized PCIe cards for production.

Product Features:

  • Supports up to three (3) extra PCIe cards
  • Built-in backplane for up to four (4) 2.5″ SSDs or SAS/SATA HDDs
  • Thunderbolt interface with 10Gbps of throughput in dual channels
  • Internal IPC-grade ultra-quiet 250W power supply
  • Built-in large and quiet fan cooling for self-contained ventilation
  • Ease-of-adjust fan speed control board for varied working environments

For more information about NA211TB-LD, please visit:
http://www.netstor.com.tw/_03/03_02.php?MTE2

Netstor Demonstrates Optical Thunderbolt Cable Application
Up to 40 Meters for Thunderbolt Storage NA333TB

March 18, 2013 Taipei, Taiwan — Netstor is pleased to announce its 3U 16-bay Thunderbolt storage with PCIe expansion, NA333TB, with long-distance optical Thunderbolt cable application up to 40 meters, which ensures video studio a concise setting, lowers investment to professional video editing cards, and reduces cost to establishment of high-speed data transfer. The optical Thunderbolt cable solution that shows fast data throughput up to 10Gbps makes NA333TB well positioned in data center, assuring data availability to every Mac within studios of institution as well as rapid switching among computers via optical Thunderbolt connection. Furthermore, the expense of setting up Netstor mass storage on o ptical Thunderbolt framework is relatively economical as compared to configuration of 8G Fibre channel or 10G GbE iSCSI in long-distance DAS setting.

Hardware Cost Reduction with Real-Time Synchronizing

In addition to data storage, the NA333TB allows up to 3 PCIe cards to be installed in its enclosure for each Thunderbolt-equipped Mac via the optical Thunderbolt cable for saving the investment in specialty video editing cards on each desktop computer. Professionals in video editing requiring mass storage and high bandwidth are capable of process, edit, and store data of digital content creation up to 4K, 12-bit uncompressed through the optical Thunderbolt framework on NA333TB.

For the introduction video of NA333TB, please visit:
http://www.netstor.com.tw/_05/video/NA333TB.htm

About Netstor

Netstor Technology focuses on the development of products on external SAS/SATA data storage and aims to provide users with reliable, cost-effective and high-performance SAS/SATA data backup solutions. Netstor develops complete storage product lines from desktop tower to 5U 48-bay rackmount disk array enclosures. Netstor has a worldwide distribution network covering IT, audio/video, telecom, DVR, CCTV, digital content creation, and educational, scientific industries. For more information about Netstor, please visit http://www.netstor.com.tw

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