Netstor TurboBox Expansion

3slot PCIExpressBox unit with Solid State installed made by Netstor.com. The price is about $600.00. The housing is made of Aluminum material, that's very elegant looking enclosure.

http://www.netstor.com.tw/_03/03_02.php?ODQ
Netstor NA210A-LD, the newest addition to TurboBox® NA210A family is an external PCI-Express slot expansion box combining with a multi-drive backplane module supporting four(4) 2.5” SATA/SAS disk drives or SSD(Solid State Drive), making it the perfect I/O capability as well as storage capacity expansion for laptop computers and workstations.

Netstor provides the PCI Express of PC host adaptor or Expresscard card of Laptop adaptor optional, through only one cable connection between host PC to NA210A-LD. The NA210A-LD includes three free PCI Express slots for up to three any PCIe cards and a storage backplane for allowing configuration with Raid function while installing a Raid card into the one of the free PCI Express slots. Users are able to use NA210A-LD to attach both PCI Express cards and external storage to their Laptop, desktop or server.

Features

*Supports up to 3 extra PCI-Express slots
*Built-in backplane for up to four(4) 2.5" SSD or SAS/SATA drives
*Aluminum housing, anodized surface, benefits for cooling and durability
*Built-in a big & quiet Fan cooling for self-contained ventilation
*Desktop PCI-Express & Laptop ExpressCard34 supported
*Internal Ultra-quiet 220W Power Supply

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Comment by Nick Datu on April 29, 2011 at 10:48am: Netstor has tested the RME’s 128-channel HDSPe MADI card working on their TurboBox connected to laptop, the result is pretty good when running 32 tracks using 64 channels, simultaneous playback and recording run pretty smoothly.

http://www.netstor.com.tw/_02/02_detail.php?NjU=

Comment by Clark H. on April 29, 2011 at 11:05am: I've seen this on the internet when I was searching for expansion system.

http://www.netstor.com.tw/_03/03_02.php?ODI

This is very cool expansion system, it is affordable, price is between $200 to $350, not bad compared to Magma expanion expressbox which is way too expensive. I've also heard that this is more a consumer type product or COTS product unlike the Magma expansion expressbox.

Judging by the look of it, looks pretty cool. It comes with a carrying case and the expansion turbo box is light weight...

Is there any one out there has tested or use this Turbo Box from Netstor with Pro Tools PCI cards, such as Native HD card and ProTools HD cards?

Comment by ALLAN DANGERFIELD on April 29, 2011 at 11:49am: As this technology is approaching I would like to say, on behalf of hundreds/thousands of Pro Tools users, that a new Thunderbolt interface, cable and chassis to the original HD cards,

replacing the PCI/ Expresscard interface and the much "too short" 1.5 m. cable, will be very welcome to a large & professional society.

After all, TDM processing power is not replaced by the Light Peak protocol.

Also, there is a question about RAM. Would it be possible to add a chassis with extra RAM, so that

Pro users could get up to 64 GB on their laptops?

That would really be helpful, with several Pro applications nowadays recommennding 16GB RAM minimum.

Comment by Dan Logan on May 1, 2011 at 5:23pm: I

found this press release article posted on Netstor indicating UAD2 PCie cards works with Netstor TuroBox
Here is the link:
http://www.netstor.com.tw/_02/02_detail.php?NjA=

Here is another feedback on the netstor turbobox running UAD2

http://www.span.com/product_info.php?cPath=19_1300_1354&product...