ioSafe unveils new disaster-proof NAS cloud appliance

18.09.2012
ioSafe, the storage company that has gained some Internet notoriety by to try to destroy its encased hard drives and arrays, today released a new disaster-proof cloud NAS appliance.

ioSafe's new N2 is a dare waiting to be taken. The storage array can withstand fire and heat up to 1550 degrees Fahrenheit and submersion in 10 feet of fresh or salt water for up to three days. The N2 uses a 2GHz Marvel CPU and has up to 512MB memory. The N2 uses ioSafe's patented DataCast, HydroSafe and FloSafe technology.

The two-bay NAS appliance can hold up to 8TB on two disks configured as a RAID 0 or 1. The box uses Synology's DiskStation Manager as its OS to offer a multitasking user interface. The appliance is aimed at the small office, home office and remote branch office user.

The NAS has one gigabit Ethernet port, with additional ports for USB 3.0 (5Gbps) connectivity and a memory card.

The ioSafe N2 NAS box.

The N2 offers local and remote file sharing as well as file synchronization between N2 devices and multiple computers.