I-O Data offers up 1TB and 2TB LANDISK Tera NAS drives
By Darren Murph 
posted Dec 21st 2006 3:31AM
posted Dec 21st 2006 3:31AM
I-O Data is back on the RoHS-compliant NAS trail again, as its new LANDISK Tera offers up a secure, environmentally-friendly way to stash and share your data over a network. The new drive comes in both 1TB and 2TB flavors, supports RAID 5, boasts four hot-swappable bays, and now features AES 256-bit encryption. Additionally, this data cube comes dressed in all black, keeps your data under lock and key, and even touts a secondary security lock that can only be accessed with your chipped USB thumb drive. Aside from touting gigabit Ethernet, you'll also find support for Windows Active Directory and a data tracking feature to keep watch over who moves your precious files. Both units can be snapped up sometime next month, and while the 1TB variety will run you ¥99,800 ($846), the 2TB edition will demand ¥168,000 ($1,424).[Via Akihabara News]
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Can we start calling these NAS boxes based on their redundant (RAID5) storage? 2TB of RAID0 data might as well be temp files for how safe it is. (Yes I realize it's possible to have 2TB of RAID5 in this thing, but I doubt they put 750GB drives in it for 1400$)
RAID0 = 4x the possibility of losing all your data.
Might be perfect for what I need. Can both Mac & PC access this over the LAN?
Also, looking for something I can plug in directly (via USB or SATA2) for HD video capture...
What exactly does support for Active Directory mean?
does anyone know of a cheap TB NAS?
This stuff is too expensive for me
NAS is pretty cool stuff, but its too expensive considering you could buy a rather cheap, modern pc, get a nice RAID card, and stack it with hdd's as your budget allows.
found this 10 minute vid in Japanese, but the graphics give you a good idea about what the girl is saying.
http://stage6.divx.com/members/221963/videos/1035940
too bad this unit won't hit stateside anytime soon. after trying to navigate I-O data's website, i used their sales form and got ahold of someone. they have no plans to ever release this in the US, they say that it is too competitive and the HDD business is too high risk. even though they would be first to market with a SOHO/small business NAS unit with encryption (i have yet to find -any- others, the Infrant ReadyNAS has planned support for it but i don't think the processor is fast enough)