NetStor Technology is happy to announce the availability of its new 3U-16 bay external PCI-Express to SAS/SATA storage enclosure. Through only one external PCI-E 8-lane cable and up to 20Gbps high bandwidth host connectivity, the NA333A offers two incredible functions of mass external storage capacity and PCI-Express slot expansion in the same enclosure.

NA333A is designed with SAS/SATA backplane and built-in PCI-Express slot expander for any standard 16 ports internal SAS/SATA PCI-e Raid control card direct connect to HDD backplane with Raid functions for data protection and transfer performance. Moreover, the extra PCI-Express slots can be installed with any standard PCI-e add-on card like capture card etc..This will solve the PCI-e slot shortage problem on host Mac or PC workstation.

The NA333A provides sixteen removable drive trays with key lock and each tray built-in power, activity and failure LED indicators for displaying the status of each single Hard Disk. The HDD backplane compatible with SAS/SATA drive supports SGPIO for HDD fail signal management and environmental detecting for fan stop or temperature over 50¢XC with failure LEDs and mutable buzzer alarm. The chassis builds with industry standard heavy-duty cold-rolled steel metal with RoHS Compliance. Advance thermal cooling design with two of 7.5cm tool-less hot-swap blowers for self-contained ventilation optimize airflow to keep system cooler and easy to maintain, and furthermore redundancy power supply enables system maintenance without interruption of service.