| Darma NAS OS Small Business Edition Data Sheet |
| Network Protocols and Client Support |
| SMB-CIFS, TCP/IP
for Windows 9x, XP, NT4, 2000, and 2003 Networks |
| Domain and Active Directory support; join a ADS realm
as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/kerberos |
| NFS for UNIX,
Linux, Solaris, BSD networks |
| Apple OSX 10.1 and above; legacy Apple clients with
third party CIFS client |
| DHCP for automatic IP configuration |
| Affordability |
| Unlimited Client Access Licenses (CAL) saves thousands
of dollars on large networks *Trial version limited to 2 network
clients per share
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| Standards based solution using Linux and many outstanding
open source programs |
| Supports industry standard x86 hardware with most common
controllers and NICs |
| Consolidate and virtualize storage with Logical Volume Manager
(LVM) |
| Availability / Reliability |
| RAID 0, 1, 5, 5+1 (RAID 5 with Hot-Spare) |
| 64MB footprint fits on compact flash, IDE
flash, or small IDE disk drives |
| Dedicated OS boot drive is separated from storage disks and
arrays |
| Read-only image on boot drive to minimize OS corruption
and virus concerns |
| Power supply fail-over support |
| Manageability |
| Volume manager to easily create / modify
/ repair multiple volumes |
| Dynamic filesystem expansion; add a drive or array then
expand volume online |
| Simple, intelligent GUI navigation |
| Quotas for local or domain users |
| File level Access Control List (ACL) support; manage
file level permissions from Windows domain |
| Optional: LCD support for easy setup and maintenance |
| Performance |
| Optimized NAS OS with all performance and security
features enabled |
| SGI XFS
advanced journaling file system with 64-bit scaleability; support
for extremely large volumes and files |
| Newly created volumes available immediately while
building RAID array |
| Real-time, multi-threaded Java GUI |
| Gigabit Ethernet support |
| Compatibility |
| Seamless integration with native-mode Windows NT4 /
2000 / 2003 Domain and Active Directory |
| Software and / or hardware RAID, supports multiple arrays
with RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 5 + spare, or JBOD |
| Supports any combination of IDE / SCSI / Fibre Channel
/ Serial ATA disk drives |
| Same security scheme and quota scheme for NFS and SMB
connections |
| Other Features |
| 2 minute install from bootable CD-Rom |
| Multi-byte and UNICODE character sets |
| Security |
| Advanced Java client-server architecture with SSL
encryption |
| All traffic is encrypted (including passwords) to avoid
unauthorized access to array tools |
| Kerberos authentication |
| Standalone security model for non NT networks, password
database supports simultaneous local and domain users |
| Insecure services removed or disabled by default |
