The NAS platforms can support from two to six drives and can be used to share content in a home or be accessed remotely by mobile devices.

The new NAS controllers are based on dual-core Atom Cedarview-D processors.

One controller uses D2550 processor and the other the D2500 processor. Both chips have 1.86 GHz clock speeds.

The Intel NAS platform supports multiple operating systems, including Linux, but typically runs Windows Home Server 2008 R2.

The D2550 has a separate 640MHz graphics processor and HDMI code acceleration for processing and serving up high definition video and graphics, while the D2500 does not, according to Intel spokesman Rajgopal Ramamoorthy.