Small and medium businesses face an ever-increasing need for data consolidation and sharing. D-Link’s DNS-1560-04 1U 4-bay Rackmount SMB NAS/iSCSI Unified Storage is a unified solution for these growing data storage requirements, and provides a multitude of options for managing and securing important files.

 

Unified Storage Solution

The DNS-1550-04 is a unified solution that provides iSCSI and NAS functionalities. It boasts strong iSCSI read/ write performance whose average data throughput is higher than many competing products. It also provides versatile RAID support meaning you never run the risk of losing valuable data. It features 4 Serial ATA (SATA) disk drive bays that support hard drives in RAID level 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, or JBOD configurations. DNS-1560-04 supports multiple protocols including SMB, NFS, AFP, FTP, WebDAV as well as iSCSI. This combination delivers storage solutions with great performance, manageability and efficiency.

 

Variety of Backup Options

The DNS-1560-04 offers a comprehensive range of backup options which allow administrators and users to control how, when, and where their data is stored. Users can also take a volume snapshot, integrate with Amazon S3 cloud storage or remotely back up to another unified storage.

 

Green Features Save Energy

The DNS-1560-04 is also 80 PLUS certified. 80 PLUS certification is granted to products that have more than 80% energy efficiency at certain levels of rated load. This enables the DNS-1560-04 to run more efficiently by using less electricity, allowing it to run cooler and with reduced operating costs.

 

Efficient

DNS-1560-04 features thin provisioning allocating disk storage space in a flexible manner based on the minimum space required. It also addresses the explosion of unstructured data and files, where reads/writes are random, by treating random writes as sequential blocks.

 

Manageability

The DNS-1560-04’s user interface is clean, intuitive, and professional, which dramatically increases usability for enterprise users. It also integrates Windows Active Directory and LDAP for IT administrators to easily manage accounts in enterprise environments.