VIA announce the new Thin Server NAS Motherboard

Written by IT News on 9:00 AM

By: Bogdan Botezatu, Hardware Editor

Chip manufacturer VIA recently introduced a new thin motherboard dedicated to the small business server applications, such as network-attached storage devices. Thin-server systems are becoming more and more popular thanks to their low energy consumption and high reliability.

In 7800, NAS VIA motherboard sports to eight S-ATA II ports and two Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45 ports. As expected, the council supported the company's low-voltage 1.5GHz VIA C7 processor, but it can at will hold a fanless VIA Eden stock line unit.

In addition, the board integrates proprietary MFX module, which allows devices to support the following activities schedule. This feature is essential for the maintenance of the energy bill, as a minimum, and allows IT managers to power down servers during the operation, non-working hours. When the computers once again go on the Internet MFX integrated module automatically wakes NAS activities.

"The VIA NAS 7800 is designed to meet the needs of today's digital work, which makes it ideal for the new generation of thin server products for small and medium-sized enterprises," said Daniel Wu, Vice President, VIA Embedded Platform Division, VIA Technologies, Inc " VIA "segment specific products Leader target platforms with industry-leading power efficiency, security and reliability."

Another interesting addition to the motherboard is built into the module for TPM key generation and storage, which combines with the VIA PadLock Security Engine integrated directly into the CPU die. The combination offers ultra-fast, military-grade hardware encryption and decryption functions, which will keep data safe.

New VIA motherboard from comes in the unique 14.3 cm x 19 centimeter form factor, which is the same size as a standard optical drive. In the I/O ports agreed to facilitate the process of integration into the conventional construction with the chassis sizes, as well as 1U server.