VIA NSR7800 8-bay eco-friendly 16TB server

After playing with VIA’s ARTiGO A2000 barebones NAS earlier in the month, and coming away impressed with the file-sharing and backup performance of its 1.5GHz C7 processor, we’re interested to see VIA drop the same CPU into their altogether more serious 8-bay rack server. The VIA NSR7800 is a 2U rack server with eight 3.5-inch SATA-II drive bays and dual gigabit LAN, which apparently consumes at least 50-percent less power than rival products.

Bays are accessed through individually-locked lever-opening doors, and there are two SATA controllers capable of handling up to 16TB of storage across eight separate drives with hot-swap hardware support. The NSR7800 can take up to 1GB of DDR2 RAM and boot from an integrated Compact Flash slot, with VGA port for standalone on-device configuration.

There’s also a Mini-PCI port for adding in hardware VPN or antivirus devices, and the whole thing is enclosed in a heavy duty steel casing. The VIA NSR7800 is available now, and we’re waiting to hear back from VIA on pricing.

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