Inexpensive Networked Storage Extended to Mac OS

By DE Editors

Coraid (San Clemente, CA) has teamed with 2ºFrost (Bellingham, WA) to extend its EtherDrive Storage products for Mac OSX. The AoE (ATA over Ethernet) driver foir Mac OS X from 2ºFrost, enables storage for the Macintosh platform at less than $1 per GB.

Coraid’s EtherDrive Storage products use high-capacity disks and low-cost networking for massively scalable storage. According to a Coraid press release, networks are now economically feasible for many of today’s data-hungry applications. AoE enables disks to be shared on the network creating a highly scalable storage system while saving on costs. Such storage costs less than $1 per gigabyte when using 750GB SATA disk drives. EtherDrive Storage is said to have the ability to scale one disk at a time to multi-PetaBytes of storage capacity.

Coraid’s EtherDrive Storage products offer 1U and 3U platforms that include internal RAID (0,1,5,10) capability for hot-swappable SATA1 or SATA2 disk drives. The 2ºFrost AoE Driver for Mac OS X is available for both Intel and PowerPC systems as a universal binary. It can be downloaded by visiting 2degreesfrost.com. Price: $159 (Client edition); $319 (Server edition).

For information about EtherDrive Storage for other operating systems, visit coraid.com.
 
Sources: Press materials received from the company. Additional information gleaned from the company’s website.