Western Digital today expanded its storage solution portfolio with the introduction of the new WD Sentinel DS5100 and WD Sentinel DS6100 (S-series) ultra-compact network storage plus servers. The WD Sentinel S-series features Intel Xeon processors and are pre-installed with Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials.
All WD Sentinel network storage products feature WD enterprise-class hard drives and the 4-bay WD Sentinel S-series desktop appliances offer up to 16 TB of raw storage. The WD Sentinel S-series includes WD 3.5-inch datacenter-class hard drives for enhanced data security. Reliability is enhanced with dual dedicated boot drives on the DS6100, dual gigabit Ethernet ports, and dual external DC-in power adapter ports.
WD Sentinel S-series appliances are available today. The WD Sentinel DS5100 is pre-populated in capacities of 4 or 8 TB. The WD Sentinel DS6100 is available with capacities of 8, 12, or 16 TB. Prices begin at $2,560 for the WD Sentinel DS5100 4 TB network storage plus server.
