Buffalo TeraStation TS5410

Buffalo Americas used NexGen Cloud to show off its latest NAS-based data protection appliance, the TeraStation TS5410. This unit expands on previous models with the addition of a 10-Gbps port, a doubling of internal memory to 4 GB, and the use of NAS-class hard drives. It is slated to ship in January.

That 10-Gbit Ethernet port is important, said Ben Delaurier, director of Americas support for the Austin, Texas-based company and an obvious fan of the movie "A Christmas Story," which made that lamp pictured in the background famous. "This opens the bottleneck in NAS," Delaurier told CRN. "No matter what the processor, NAS is limited to 120 MBytes per second on a 1-Gbit port; 10-Gbits enables up to 600 MBytes per second read speed in a four-bay configuration."