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City Oy of Finland have launch new Advertising campaign for Edgestore

DAS 200 from Edgestore sales surge 300% after Magazine review.

Edge10 at Broadcast Expo

Jump in sales on DAS 501t after the BETT show

Edge10 has witnessed a huge surge in sales of the Edgestore DAS and Nas ranges following from the BETT show.

User Review of Edge10 DAS200

I have just purchased a drive on the basis of your comments, and following testing with a plug-in power monitor you will be glad to hear that your figure is about right:

Plugged in but switched off: 1W (6VA)

Switched on, no drives installed: 5W (10VA)

Running with 2 drives, idle: 17W (27VA)

The drives were Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB - not particularly energy-efficient, but fairly typical mainstream SATA drives. Interestingly the power consumption dropped over the first few minutes after switch-on with the drives installed to the figures I give above.

The power overhead of the enclosure is pretty good, all things considered, so you would certainly be entitled to mention this in the marketing material. For comparison, an Iomega Ultramax two drive enclosure with similar drives fitted consumes 26W (47VA) when idle - 50% more power. The DAS200 is much quieter in operation as well.

The only minor negative comment I would make regarding the product is that there is no upper rail to help locate the drives when installed, as is the case with some other similar products. This means that unless you take the cover off and secure the drives with screws (reducing the ease of changing drives if necessary), the drives are not as well located as they could be. Since hot-plugging is supported, this is a slight issue; but certainly not a big deal.

In terms of support for Macintosh systems the enclosed CD-ROM does not have a version of the SteelVine Manager software which is compatible with the current version of MacOS X, which is 10.5.6. A version which does work OK for uploading firmware etc can be downloaded from the Silicon Image website. However I can't imagine how the email alert function offered by this program can work for a drive of this type - I imagine it is there because of other NAS-type products using the same chipset but this is presumably not deactivated on systems which don't have any network connection. Not a criticism as such, more an observation.

With all of its features and its very reasonable price I would have thought this product would have been very attractive for the Macintosh market. Have you considered getting it reviewed by MacWorld, MacUser and MacFormat, etc? 

I hope this is of value to you.

Regards,

Nick

End of BETT 2009 thanks to all stand visitors

See you all at BETT 2010

BETT Show is fast approaching

Edge10 Corporation Ltd is exhibiting at the BETT Show held from 14-17 January 2009 at Olympia London.  We are on stand A96 in the Grand Hall so come and see us...

At the show we will exhibit our application specific Display Monitors purposely built for the Education Market.  These include our hard glass and our touch screen displays.

In addition to our display monitors we look forward to showcasing our new flash duplicators; USB, CF, SD and multiformat dupes as well as our traditional CD/DVD duplicators some now with Bluray.

Our new range of backup storage devices will also be available to see.  These include our Network Attached and Direct Attached Storage products.

Do make sure you come over and see us if you attend the Show, will be great to see you there!

Log onto www.bettshow.com for more information about the show.

Installing the DLNA plug in for the Edge10 NAS400 - Edgestore

Installing Application Plug-ins Application plug-ins are enhancements to EdgeStore’s capabilities. The DLNA server, which enables EdgeStore to support the UPnP protocol, is one example of an application plug-in. Follow this procedure to install an application plug-in on your EdgeStore.

Downloading the Plug-in File,

To download the plug-in file:

1. Download the plug-in file you want from the Edge10 website onto your PC.

2. Copy the plug-in file from your PC to a folder on the EdgeStore.

Installing the Plug-in File

1 Start the EASM interface.

2. In the Tree, click on the + beside the Management icon.

3. Click on the System Upgrade icon.

4. From the Volume dropdown menu, choose the Volume that has the folder with the plug-in file.

5. From the Folder dropdown menu, choose the Folder that contains the plug-in file.

6. In the File Name field, type the name of the plug-in file.

7. Click the OK button to begin the installation. When the installation is done, a system message appears.

8. Click the OK button on the system message.

Resellers of EdgeStore NAS400

The NEW EdgeStore NAS400 is now available.  Resellers with stock are:

Envizage Solutions - www.envizage.com

SVP Communications - www.svp.co.uk

Scan - www.scan.co.uk

Micro Direct - www.microdirect.co.uk

All details of the NAS400 can also be found on our website www.edge10.com

Edgestore NAS400 - allows fast data sharing and enterprise class storage in your home at a truly affordable price.

Edgestore NAS400 - allows fast data sharing and enterprise class storage in your home at a truly affordable price.

Hard drives fail - It is a fact!. Manufacturers build them to a certain standard not to perfection.Have you ever wondered what would happen if you lost all your family data - pictures of the kids as babies, videos of vacations, college coursework, your entire music collection?

Big businesses have RAID Solutions to protect against this and secure their data. Yet now the technology that big businesses have to protect their mission-critical data is being made available to the home user with a couple of added benefits - Affordability and Simplicity.....

The Edgestore NAS400 can connect directly to your PC or to your router allowing the home user to share files easily like a commercial file sharing server.

It is small, quiet and perfectly house-trained.