Stopped supply as at 1/1/2008

There are many approaches for expanding the storage capacity of a server or network, such as with additional disks in a server or externally on the local area network. The former approach is called DAS for direct attached storage and the latter approach is NAS for network attached storage. DAS is normally internal because external products have previously been expensive and limited in functionality. Compucon now announces a new external DAS product to address the gap in the market. This unit uses low cost IDE hard disks and provides various storage features such as Data redundancy and Data stripping on top of expansion of storage outside the server chassis. It is suitable for storage of reference files and data rather than for transactional information.

This product is a Direct Attached Storage (DAS) unit holding up to 4 IDE HDD on RAID-0, 1, 5, 10 or JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks). The unit connects to a PC or server via a 68pin SCSI cable. That is, this unit is External to a PC or server. It is not NAS. NAS connects to the network through a 10/100 RJ45 port. This DAS unit is OS transparent. It has its own PSU requiring power supply separate from the PC or server, and we recommend it to be on UPS in case RAID is used. The PC or server needs a SCSI card to connect to this unit to work. The PC or server can have its internal HDD or RAID and this DAS will provide extra external storage.