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Products | SANmelody Lite

SANmelody™ Lite software -- a best fit for home or office PC networks. SANmelody Lite supports four (4) logical disk drives - enabling up to 2 terabytes of disk space to be served to a multitude of systems over a local network Ethernet port using iSCSI protocols, plus SANmelody Lite supports up to 128 MBs of cache to accelerate disk I/Os. Price only $199!

For larger storage requirements and a list of advanced features, please see the rest of the SANmelody Product Family.

John C. Dvorak's
Inside Track Newsletter

Genuinely Interesting Software Department - "Overlooked in all of this (re:virtualization announcements by IBM and EMC) is a $199 low-end software solution for small and medium-size businesses that can do all of the newfangled conceptual/virtualization SAN stuff for a lot cheaper and with equivalent or better performance. The company that makes the software is called DataCore. So before you start throwing your money away on some of those ridiculously overpriced subsystems, take a look at these folks. Go to DataCore to find out more. Hot stuff."

SANmelody Lite serves disk space to PCs over the LAN so they don't run out of space

When you step up beyond two PCs in your home or office, juggling disk space gets very complicated and downright annoying. Usually the computer that needs the most disk capacity has the least room to spare. To make your life simpler, DataCore came up with an inexpensive software utility called SANmelody™ Lite that lets one of your PCs become a disk server for all your other machines. This scaled down version of DataCore's enterprise class product allows you to load up one PC with disk drives and assign portions of each drive to the applications that most need it. A large 400 GB drive, for example, can be split up into several smaller logical disks to be spread across multiple applications. You might prefer to carve the space into four 100 GB disk or maybe one 160GB disks for your big gulper and three 80 GB disk for the rest of the applications.

The approach brings several benefits:

No disk space is wasted.
Users no longer have to worry about someone mistakenly reading or writing information on a shared folder from another computer. Other machines can't see each other's disks, and
You can serve more disk space to a PC without having to open it up or reboot it. You assign the space from the disk server and the appropriate computer will discover the "new drive" over the network.

So don't pull out your hair when you can't stuff any more drives into your PCs. Just turn one of your machines into disk server with SANmelody Lite software.