The M-41 has space for four hot-swappable 3.5" SATA hard drives and the chassis has a magnetic front panel with a key lock for added security. It has an excellent cooling system able to maintain optimal operating temperature for demanding applications. The mainboard and HDDs are divided in the case; the HDDs are cooled separately from the rest of the system components. Powered by a dual core Intel Atom 330 with 1Gb of RAM this unit offers a small compact platform that is very quiet and affordable enough for new uses.

Home Storage Server; Imagine a M-41 located out of sight in your home plugged into your router with a single network cable offering storage to any client (wired or wireless) on your home network. This makes the M-41 an ideal backup target as a discretely hidden M-41 could be used to restore any systems lost to a break-in.

Home Theatre Storage; The ability to separate storage from the machine using it offers an unbeatable solution where home theatre installs typically struggle with space and noise issues. Image 8TB of storage located in another part of your house from the home theatre, while the M-41 is not fully silent, locating it away from the noise sensitive area offers a practical solution to the problem.

Desktop Video Production; Small enough to be portable the M-41 can house up to 8TB of storage and needs nothing more than a network cable to connect it to a workstation. The ability to move the storage away from noise sensitive areas while still having block based storage that appears to be internal storage will appeal to many users. the M-41 is faster than any consumer level NAS devices and it still offers the scalability of adding multiple units for those really big storage needs. with the use of iSCSI the M-41 offers the ability to have multiple workstations each mount storage from a single storage enclosure which you cannot do with direct attached storage (USB/FireWire/eSATA/SAS).

Lab Storage and SAN Evaluation; Software and Hardware testing labs often need storage space for multiple projects and have a hard time justifying an expensive SAN deployment within the lab. The M-41 is basically a "SAN in a box" and by using simple desktop GbE desktop switches you can very affordably replicate a full blown IP-SAN for a fraction of the cost of any vendors entry level products.

Specifications;

Dimensions; 260 x 140 x 260 mm (10.24" x 5.51" x 10.24")
Capacity; 4 x 3.5" SATA HDD (hot-swappable)
Cooling; 2 x 70 mm fans (rear); 1 x 60 mm fan (front)
Power; External 120 W AC adapter (brick) AC 100 ~ 240 V
Performance; ~70MB/s seq read, 55MB/s seq write
Performance; ~8000IOPS seq 512byte read, 6500 seq 512byte write

Features:

Available with or without drives
Certified with Seagate Barracuda ES SATAII Enterprise Drives
1 Year Warranty
1 Year Support
Built with Wasabi Storage Builder for iSCSI™
Built on Wasabi Certified NetBSD™
Flash-Based OS volume
Aggressive iSCSI volume block cache (1GB)
2x 1GbE Ports (upgradable to 4, 6, 8, 10)
RAID 0,1,10,5
Supports IETF iSCSI RFC, draft 20
Compatible with all iSCSI Draft 20-compliant initiators
Compatible with Open iSCSI, Cisco, UNH, and Microsoft software initiators
Compatible with all major hardware initiators and offload cards
VMware ESX Certified, Citrix XenServer Compatible
OS Independent
Error recovery level 0, 1 and 2 (ERL0,1,2)
CHAP authentication
Password-protected web-based GUI management
Remote console option
Syslog and/or Email event notification
Fully protected, performance-optimized virtual memory system
TCP/IP optimizations such as zero-copy and checksum offload
MCS (Multiple Connections per Session)
MPIO (Multi Path IO)
MS cluster ready and tested
Supports 200 sessions and 64 LUNS

Low cost,
high performance, simple options,
no hidden costs, simple operation;

What else could you want from storage?