Thecus already has an 8 bay rackmount NAS, the N8200XXX featuring a quick Intel Atom™ processor & providing a very good value. This product fills an important niche in the market & provides users with an excellently priced large storage NAS. Before this, Thecus was already known for innovative & powerful appliances such as the N8800SAS with SAS support & heavy-loaded hardware. With the N8900, they’ve decided to go one step further in performance & provide a state of the art NAS device for the most demanding users: USB3.0, HDMI output, & 10 Gb Ethernet compatibility are only some of the key features included. Let’s have a closer look. As part of the latest generation of leading CPUs on the market, the Intel Core™ i 3-2120 processor integrates 2 cores at 3.3 G Hz to match the N8900’s no less than 8GB of DDR3 memory. Fast RAID operations, multitasking, reactive virtualized environments, application serving, & more; anything your business needs. To maximize your data safety, the N8900 benefits from a unique Thecus feature: Dual DOM design. The DOM (Disk On Module) is the equivalent of the BIOS on a computer: if it fails or gets corrupted for any reason, all your data can be lost forever. Thanks to Thecus Dual DOM design, there is a second DOM ready to replace or reprogram the first one. In this way, Thecus has reduced DOM failures by 67%! Key Features 2nd Generation Intel Core™ i 3 10 Gb E Ready Ultra-Fast SATA III & SAS 6G USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 Connectivity HDMI Connectivity