The NAS box sector is a very dynamic one today, with lots of companies delivering innovative solutions for every tier of home or business user.
Morro DATA is a business promising a wholly different approach to NAS. The company started by Paul Tien, the man who created ReadyNAS and then subsequently sold that business to Netgear.
Morro Data has the declared aim is to turn traditional NAS upside-down with its radical CloudNAS Series, and a radical approach to the management of Cloud-stored data.
Out of the box the CacheDrive G80 looks like a standard piece of Intel hardware, but what Morro Data did with it is far from conventional.
Design
On first opening the packaging, it would be easy to conclude that this is the wrong item sent by mistake. Because the G80 is merely an Intel NUC system, or an NUC6i3SYK to be exact. The barebones version can be had for roughly £260 ($275), although this one has a 1TB SanDisk X400 SATA M.2 SSD in it, plus 4GB of Crucial 2133MHz DDR4 RAM.
The NUC6i3SYK is a general purpose micro PC built around a Skylake series Core i3-6100U processor. It includes lots …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac