Netgear produces a great little network storage device that is both fast and inexpensive. Whether it’s affectionately nicknamed a “toaster” or a “piggy”, the SC101 is used in every corner of the globe by digital home users and small businesses. And Netgear’s new turbo version of this highly acclaimed little unit, the SC101T, is even faster.

So what could such a great product be lacking? Mac support! With the advent of Apple’s lauded OS X operating system, its Macintosh line of computers are experiencing a phenomenal rate of growth in the market place. With the disk drive capacity of most Macs fixed, the Storage Central is an excellent choice for expanding data storage. Unfortunately, until now, the SC101 and SC101T could only work with computers using Microsoft’s Windows operating systems.

Newt Data Systems recognized this limitation and licensed the use of the proprietary ZSAN technology from the Zetera Corporation to create a software package that will bring all of the advantages of Netgear’s Storage Central to Macintosh users.

With Newt Data Systems’ Mac Storage Manager you can:

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➡Share volumes created with Netgear’s SCM on a Windows system or another Mac OS X system.

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➡Create new sharable volumes using DataPlow’s SFS file system(the only file system Netgear’s SCM will allow).

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➡Create Mac proprietary volumes using the Mac standard HFS file system.

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➡Create and manage mirrored volumes for fault tolerant data storage.
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➡Recover from “broken” mirrors.

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➡Easily expand volumes without manipulating existing data.

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➡Expand volumes to other Storage Central units making them all appear as one volume.