LG N4B1N 4-Bay NAS Enclosure
The N4B1N 4-Bay Network Attached Storage with Built-in Blu-ray Rewriter from LG® provides central storage and backup for large networks in small office or home network. With the LG N4B1N Network Attached Storage you get all the benefits of a large data center without the need of a large IT department. Additionally, LG N4B1N Network Attached Storage features Built-in Blu-ray Rewriter as an added advantage. With an impressive storage capacity, this NAS is an ideal choice for your network storage needs.
LG N4B1N Network Attached Storage Features
Processor Clock Speed: 500 MHz
Optical Storage Type:
Blue-Ray recorder
Optical Storage / Read Speed:
6x / 16x / 40x Max (BD / DVD / CD)
Expansion Bays Total(Free):
4 x 3.5"
Specifications
Processor Brand:
Marvell
Processor Class:
Marvell SOC
Processor Speed:
500 MHz
Memory Type:
DDR2 SDRAM
Compatible RAID Levels:
RAID 0; RAID 1; RAID 5; RAID 0+1
Number Of Hard Drives Bays:
4
Hard Drives Included:
0
Hard Drive Interface:
SATA
Spindle Speed (RPM):
7200
eSATA Ports:
1
USB Ports:
1
RJ-45 Ports:
1
Interface Type:
One Gigabit Ethernet
Data Transfer Rate:
10/100/1000 Mb/s
Protocols:
HTTP, FTP, NTP, DHCP, TCP/IP
Networking Standards:
IEEE 802.3
Customer Reviews and Rating
Customer Rating:
5
Customer Reviews:
2
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Great product!
Reviewer:
xmiinc on
Sep 06, 2009 Customer Rating:
5.0
Value
5.0
Features
5.0
Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
I bought the unit to round out an audio project studio that included consolidating the HD's of 4 other computers I no longer need. Started formatting in a RAID config using 4 matched Seagate 1.5Tb HDs, but before the 37hrs(!) were up, I thought "why give up the overhead when I have a Blu-ray burner onboard?" So I'm not using RAID, but do have a backup protocol, and am enjoying the wide open vistas of 5.6Tb of networked storage! Eventually intend to use this as a media server for client stems, and audition dubs, as well as website hosting. This thing does it all. I just hope LG creates a community base around this thing, like exists for the Drobo.
LG-N4B1N
Reviewer:
Mr.Martin on
Jul 06, 2009 Customer Rating:
5.0
Value
5.0
Features
5.0
Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
Received a LG-N4B1N recently; within the hour after receiving the NAS I was transferring files to it and immediately noticed how much faster it was than my other NAS's and very much faster than my HP MediaSmart Server EX485. I am transferring all my files from the HP to the LG. One difference between the LG and HP is LG uses embedded XP while HP uses Windows Home Server.
The LG is very easy to use, has quality workmanship and is a great investment; although the price of the LG is expensive today, hopefully LG will sell alot of them and the price will go down.
What is RAID?
RAID is an acronym first defined back in 1987 to describe a redundant array of
inexpensive disks, a technology that allowed computer users to achieve high
levels of storage reliability from low-cost PC hard disk drives, via the
technique of arranging the devices into an array for fail-safe redundancy.
"RAID" is now used as an umbrella term for computer data storage schemes that
can divide and replicate data among multiple hard disk drives. The different
schemes/architectures are named by the word RAID followed by a number, as in
RAID 0, RAID 1, etc. RAID's various designs involve two key elements: increased
data reliability or increased input/output performance. When multiple physical
disks are set up to use RAID technology, they are said to be in a RAID array.
This array distributes data across multiple disks, but the array is seen by the
computer user and operating system as one single disk. RAID can be set up to
serve several different purposes.
Organizing disks into a redundant array decreases the total usable storage
capacity. For instance, a 2-disk RAID 1 array loses half of the total capacity
that would have otherwise been available using both disks independently, and a
RAID 5 array with several disks loses the capacity of one whole disk. Other
types of RAID arrays are arranged so that they are faster to write to and read
from than a single disk.
There are various combinations of these
configurations giving different trade-offs and benefits of protection against
data loss, capacity, and speed. RAID levels 0, 1, and 5 are the most commonly
found, and cover most of the typical requirements.
RAID 0 (striped disks) distributes data
across several disks in a way that gives improved speed at any given instant. If
one disk fails, however, all of the data on the array will be lost, as there is
neither parity nor mirroring.
RAID 1 mirrors the contents of the
disks, making a 1:1 (1 to 1) ratio real-time backup. The contents of each disk
in the array are identical to that of every other disk in the array.
RAID 3 uses a striped set with
dedicated parity or bit interleaved parity or byte level parity. This
mechanism provides fault tolerance similar to RAID 5. However, because the strip
across the disks is a lot smaller than a file system block, reads and writes to
the array perform like a single drive with a high linear write performance. If
one drive fails, the performance doesn't change.
RAID 5 (striped disks with parity)
combines three or more disks in a way that protects against data loss of any one
disk. The storage capacity of the array is reduced by the capacity of the one
disk (all disks are of equal size).
RAID 6 (striped disks with dual parity)
can recover from the loss of two disks.
RAID 10 (or 1+0) uses both striping and
mirroring. ("01" or "0+1" is sometimes distinguished from "10" or "1+0": a
striped set of mirrored subsets and a mirrored set of striped subsets are both
valid, but distinct, configurations.)
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LG Electronics Warranty provided by:
LG Electronics Limited Warranty:
12 months parts;
12 months labor
Mfg Part No:
N4B1N UPC No:
048231311847 Box Size:
( Length:
15, Width:
16, Depth:
13 )
Shipping Weight:
20.3500 pound(s)
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