Ximeta's NetDisk Home / Office NDAS devices serve up media
While a certain group of customers have apparently fallen madly in love with Ximeta's NDAS offerings, we're not entirely sure what these two forthcoming devices will actually be called when they land this summer. Klegg Electronics has reportedly snapped up Ximeta's NetDisk brand, but regardless of what label the NetDisk Home and NetDisk Office don, these two media servers could potentially offer up a much desired solution. According to CEPro, Ximeta is claiming that its newfangled NDAS units can "stream DVDs over the network," which could prove difficult to fulfill due to the ever-lurking DRM that will surely appear somewhere in that equation. Regardless, the NetDisk Home is slated to come in a two-bay rack and dual two-bay rack form, while the Office variety includes a single and dual four-bay rack with four hot-swappable SATA drive bays. Each will include the MediaPortal software to serve up music, photos, and videos around the network, and the fanless design should keep the noise level down within your AV system. Furthermore, the NetDisks can be configured for automatic RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5 backup, but unfortunately, there's no built in web server nor details regarding a price just yet.Read - Klegg buys Ximeta's NetDisk Brand
Read - Ximeta's NetDisk Home / Office NDAS units
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
lowfi @ May 10th 2007 6:36AM
In some countries (like The netherlands) it is legal to download music/dvds etc
So we dont care about DRM as long as we dont crack it ourselfs ;)
tim. @ May 10th 2007 9:20AM
no... built in... webserver..?
why would you NOT include that?
techman @ May 10th 2007 11:55AM
I own several Ximeta NetDisk's and have for about 2 years now. These drives work great and were a snap to set up. I have 4 drives set up in a RAID with eachother to backup each system on my network and have never had a problem with it.
These new products sound great and combine everything into one unit which saves alot of space and wires. With these and the new NetDisk Giga around the corner (http://www.ximeta.com/product/soho/sdportablegiga3_en.php) things are looking great for this technology.
Chuck @ May 10th 2007 1:39PM
I HAD a Ximeta enclosure that worked better as a USB drive than a network drive. Their software was buggie especially over a wireless network. I finally got disgusted and bought a Dlink DNs323 which works flawlessly. I would never buy another Ximeta device, of course this is just my opinion.
Justin @ May 13th 2007 10:17AM
@Tim, They wouldn't do that because their devices do little more then provide a network interface for the storage they contain - all the heavy lifting is done in software on your computer. I've been using an enclosure by AC Ryan that uses Ximeta chips for about 4 months now without difficulty. When trying to explain how it works to people, I tend to use the term "poor man's SAN" rather then NAS, because it gives you a better idea of what the technology is capable of.