I've always been impressed by "x/sec" figures, and here's another: Buffalo has a new NAS (Network Attached Storage) device that features a speedy 50MB/second transfer speed. I don't think my network cabling even supports 50MB/second, so this would be quite useless for me. But it's nice to know they exist.

Buffalo has announced the "HD-HB160GLU2" and "HD-HB250GLU2" network-connected hard drives, which have realized a 50MB/sec transfer rate using Gigabit Ethernet, and will release them in late January. The price of the 160GB "HD-HB160GLU2" is 28,500 yen, and the 250GB "HD-HB250GLU2" is 33,800 yen.

Both products emply "NDAS Technology" developed by Ximeta, a technology which drastically increases the speed of NAS devices with usage of 1000BASE-TX. They have achieved a maximum transfer rate of 50MB/second.

With the included utilities, they support striping (RAID 0), mirroring (RAID 1), and spanning over a LAN. The drive casing is also a fanless radiation-based case, and a 7200RPM hard drive lies inside.

Available interfaces are USB 2.0 (x1) and 1000-BASETX/100BASE-TX/10BASE-TX (x1). Supported operating systems are Windows 98 SE, Me, 2000 Professional and XP (LAN connection), and Windows 98 SE, Me, 2000 Professional, and XP (USB connection).



Inspired by:
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/pcupdate/articles/0501/19/news120.html

Press Release:
http://buffalo.melcoinc.co.jp/products/new/2004/077_1.html