Plextor, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media equipment, is expanding its storage offerings with the announcement of the PX-NAS2, a 2-Bay network-attached storage device (NAS) that provides impressive data backup and sharing capacities and device connectivities.
The PX-NAS2 is both PC and Mac compatible and a perfect solution for small office/home office (SoHo) and typical home users who want to back up, share and stream digital files over a home network. It securely stores important personal files or confidential data, while keeping all information accessible and shareable throughout the entire home network.
“Plextor is pleased to expand our storage category to meet today's growing storage demand by providing another complete storage solution to our consumers,” says Takashi Adachi, General Manager of Plextor. “The PX-NAS2 is a complete and versatile NAS device that fulfills the growing demand for storage capacity, security and accessibility of personal data anywhere, anytime within a home.”
Designed exclusively for typical home users, the system comes with Plextor PX-NAS2 utility program that detects any PX-NAS2 attached to your network environment and starts to share, download and transfer files with minimum configuration effort. The PX-NAS2 lets users to upload photos and videos to the most popular sites such as Flickr or YouTube.
Also bundled with PX-NAS2 is the powerful auto backup software tool, Memeo, the only software that allows users to backup, sync, and share content and information to multiple destinations simultaneously and automatically so personal digital life can be protected and accessible. In addition, PX-NAS2 has one-touch back up features which allows users to back up content from digital cameras, USB drives or other external devices by simply pressing the Copy/Sync button on the front panel.
PX-NAS2 is DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) 1.5 compliant which ensures connectivity and compatibility with a wide range of other digital media devices such as media player, XBOX or PS3.
The auto-resume feature ensures that the system will re-start automatically and resume the interrupted operations after a power outage. Because only authorized users are allowed to connect to the PX-NAS2, stored files are totally safe with the PX-NAS2. With built-in volume encryption feature, any confidential and sensitive data is well protected when executing network to network transfer.
The Plextor PX-NAS2 will be available as of May 2010 in three different versions:
- PX-NAS2-BL1 2-bay NAS without Hard Disks installed (MSRP €179,00)
- PX-NAS2-1T1 2-bay NAS with 2 x 500 GB (= 1 TB) Hard Disks installed (MSRP €285,00)
- PX-NAS2-2T1 2-bay NAS with 2 x 1 TB (= 2 TB) Hard Disks installed (MSRP €389,00)
In Europe, the PX-NAS2 is covered by Plextors Fast Warranty Service (2-year warranty in the EU, Norway & Switzerland (Collect & Return); 1 year in other countries).
