ZyXEL has announced a dual-core four-bay NAS.
The 4-bay NAS540 4-Bay Personal Cloud Storage is built around a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor with 1 GB of DDR3 RAM. Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports can be aggregated to support ZyXEL’s specified RAID 5 performance of up to 130 MB/sec read and 77 MB/sec write. Other hardware features include three USB 3.0 ports and SDXC card reader.
Four hot-swappable drive bays with screw-less drive mounting accept 2.5" or 3.5" SATA II hard or solid state drives configurable in JBOD, RAID 0/1/5/6/10 and RAID5+Hot Spare volumes.
ZyXEL NAS540
ZyXEL zCloud 2.0 enables secure remote access to NAS540 files through Android or iOS mobile devices and Windows, MacOS and Linux desktops. Other software features include CIFS/SMB and NFS network file system support, UPnP / DLNA, iTunes, SqueezeCenter and photo media servers, FTP, WebDAV and print servers and MySQL / PHP web serving.
Flexible backup support includes one-touch USB copy, external drive and rsync and NAS-to-NAS and Google Drive, Dropbox, Memopal, ownCloud and NetDrive cloud service support.
The NAS540 has a $312.99 MSRP and ships later this month.