Storage

Thecus N5500

Competition in the desktop NAS appliance market just keeps getting hotter with each vendor trying to outdo the others with an ever increasing features list. Thecus now goes another step beyond the rest as its latest N5500 five-bay appliance introduces the unique dual DOM feature, which targets businesses that want an extra level of fault tolerance.

So what is a dual DOM? In a nutshell, a DOM (Disk on Module) is a chunk of flash memory with an ATA, SATA or USB converter interface, which appears as a small hard disk to the host system. It can run an embedded operating system that’s used to boot the system. Thecus has used two 128MB Afaya IDE micro disk modules stacked on top of each other with the lower one plugged directly into the motherboard IDE interface. The idea here is that if one fails the other takes over.

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