RAIDiator™ is a unique embedded operating system that exploits the features of the iNAS Serial ATA Network Attached Storage appliance. With the built-in FrontView™ Setup Wizard, whether an iNAS box is being used by an advanced IT wizard or a novice home user, setting up the NAS is a breeze.

And with the more advanced built-in FrontView tool called Advanced Control, the full potential of RAIDiator can be exploited.

For instance, you can select a different RAID level.
Out of the box, you can be sure the volume configured by RAIDiator is optimized for your NAS configuration. However, you can elect to reconfigure the volume and select a different RAID level. For instance, If you want pure write speed or you want the highest capacity from your disks but don't care about disk failure protection, you can select RAID level 0 (not really recommended, but you can do this). If you wish to have your primary data disk mirrored to one or more disks, you can select RAID level 1. And if you have 3 or more disks and want a balance of performance and capacity while retaining protection from a disk failure, you can select RAID level 5.

For even better redundancy, you can assign a hot spare.
If you are in an environment where you want to minimize the amount of time your NAS spends in degraded (non-redundant) mode after a disk failure, you may want to reserve a disk as a hot spare. Let's say one of the disks fails. In the normal case, you will replace that disk as soon as you can so that the volume on the NAS can return to a redundant state. However, until you replace that disk, the NAS will be in a degraded state, meaning an additional disk failure would render the volume dead and your data lost. There's a chance that two disks can die at about the same time, although the chance of that is remote. With a standby hot spare, as soon as a disk dies, data from that disk is rebuilt onto the spare, and the NAS volume returns to a redundant state.

Background RAID sync gets you going fast.
There's no need to wait for RAID sync process to complete before using the volume. It's all done in the background so you can start using your new volume quickly after creating it. Without background sync, you may have to wait several hours before being able to use it.

Smart "sync resume" feature used to be available only with enterprise-level RAID.
Now it's available with RAIDiator. If you have ever brought down a RAID system either voluntarily or involuntarily (perhaps due to a power outage) during RAID initialization or parity resync process, you know how time-consuming it is to have to resync the RAID volume from the beginning. With the sync resume feature, the sync process continues right where it left off, when the NAS was shutdown. The less time a RAID spends in degraded mode, the better.

You can also schedule a snapshot.
No, not to take pictures every hour, but somewhat analogous to that. The snapshot feature of the RAIDiator allows you to schedule a snapshot of the volume at a specified interval. Why would you want to do that? Well, imagine one morning a couple workstations get infected with a virus, and the virus spread to the files on a share on the NAS. If you had scheduled a daily snapshot at midnight, you can go back to the snapshot of the share and restore the version of the files as of midnight.

Another reason why you schedule a snapshot is backups. Rather than backing up live shares from the NAS while file contents are changing, you can backup the snapshot instead, where you know things are frozen in time. If you coordinate your backup program to start about 5 minutes after your snapshot is taken (2am in the morning), even if the backup process is still running at 10am in the morning, you won't have to worry about backing up inconsistent data.

And what about disk quota?
So now that there's a brand new spanking NAS with hundreds of gigabyte of storage. How do you make sure little Tommy doesn't fill it up with all of his downloaded games, or the Multimedia class with all their videos? You can set disk quota. Depending on the security mode you select, you can limit disk usage on a per-share basis or on a per-user or group basis.

Talk about security modes, there's one to fit every situation.
RAIDiator supports three modes. In very easy terms, there's one called "Home and small office". In this mode, security is granted on a per-share basis. This means access to the NAS is limited based on who has the share password. This means you can prevent little Tommy from accessing Mom and Dad's Quickens share by not telling little Tommy the share password. As the name implies, this mode is sufficient for a home or a small office environment.

The second mode is the "Medium-sized office and workgroup". In this mode, a larger number of users may exist, with users perhaps grouped into functional groups, such as Sales or Accounting. This mode requires an explicit login using a user id and a user password to access the NAS. Once logged in, the user can access only the shared files that the user or the group that he or she belongs to are given access to. For instance, a user from the Sales group may not necessarily be given access rights to a share meant only for the Accounting group. This security mode does require a little more maintenance because user and group accounts must be maintained on the NAS using FrontView.

The last security mode is the "Department or corporate environment". This mode is very similar to the second mode, however, instead of maintaining the accounts on the NAS, accounts from the company's central Windows domain controller (often referred to as the Primary Domain Controller, or PDC) or the Active Directory Service (ADS) server, are accepted. In corporate environments, having a central server such as these allows for reduced overall maintenance considering the number of servers on the network.

Supports All Clients
What would a NAS be if it supported only Windows? The advantage of a NAS is that data can be shared amongst many people. In that regards, RAIDiator supports Windows, plus Macs, Unix, Linux, and anything else that has a web browser or a FTP client.

Save money on print servers.
Why spend money on print servers when there's one built-in to RAIDiator? In fact, you can connect up to two printers, one per USB port. Just plug in the printers, and they'll be recognized automatically in FrontView, and the print shares will be automatically created.

Fully integrated with smart UPS monitoring.
Ever thought what would happen when the power goes out for a little too long and the UPS battery is exhausted? RAIDiator continually monitors the UPS over USB and sends alerts whenever a power outage occurs and the UPS battery takes over. When the battery runs low, RAIDiator gracefully shutdowns to avoid potential file corruption.

Definite advantages to data journaling.
Let's say little Tommy trips over the NAS power cable and accidentally powers off the terabyte NAS. How long does it take it bring the NAS back online? With RAIDiator data journaling, usually just a few seconds longer than normal.

Automatic time synchronization.
System clocks tend to wander sometimes. There's no need to worry about that because RAIDiator has a built-in NTP client. What this means is you can specify a NTP server (or use the default one) and not ever have to worry about setting the NAS clock. It'll always be accurate to within a fraction of a second.

Wireless ready.
Because an iNAS solution can be typically smaller and more portable than comparable NAS, you may have a tendency to take it with you to show off your new collection of games, music, pictures, or videos. Why carry a cable with you and be restricted to putting the NAS close to a switch, away from the action? Carry a USB wireless controller and cut the cord, because with RAIDiator, the NAS can now be wireless.

DHCP-ready even if your network isn't.
Most of us know the advantage to having a DHCP server on the network. There's no need to enter a static IP, net mask, gateway, and DNS -- everything is automatically done for you. Simple plug-and-play. No DHCP server, you say? Well, with RAIDiator, the NAS can become one. It's as easy as setting up the NAS for a static IP and enabling the DHCP server service. In no time, other PC's on your net can join in on the 21st century.

RAIDiator speaks five languages.
That's more than what most of us speak, and this is only RAIDiator's first release. Just set your browser to English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, or Korean, and run FrontView in your native language.

Convenience of online updates.
RAIDiator comes integrated with online update support. No more going to a website, downloading a file, and uploading it to the device. Click once to check if there's an update, and click a 2nd time to perform the update. That's it.

RAIDiator keeps you informed.
NAS devices often act too much like an appliance. It's quiet when it's working and it's dead silent when it's not. Well, RAIDiator does the first, but it definitely is not silent when unexpected things occur. You'll get email alerts for out of disk space, disk quota violation, disk failure, update status, UPS warnings, RAID status, etc. Never anything not useful, but RAIDiator definitely will keep you in check with what's happening. No more coming in the morning with a ton of angry voicemail and yellow stickers.

Secure logins.
You never know who might be sniffing network packets, even behind the firewall. Rest assured that all non-anonymous logins to the RAIDiator OS are encrypted, including the login to the FrontView Setup Wizard and Advanced Control management tools.