Information storage specialist ORICO has launched a crowdfunding marketing campaign for a tool designed to mix a high-performance network-attached storage (NAS) equipment with a number for native giant language fashions (LLMs) and different machine studying and synthetic intelligence (ML and AI) workloads: the CyberData NAS.
“The CyberData NAS helps AI-enhanced Docker containers resembling DeepSeek and OpenLLaMA,” the corporate explains of its machine, “enabling superior duties like native language modeling, good search, or non-public AI brokers—run straight in your NAS machine with out sending information to the cloud. Our roadmap contains deploying AI-powered picture classification and doc sorting instruments, serving to customers auto-organize giant media libraries and archives. We are going to roll out AI function updates over time through over-the-air software program enhancements. These shall be based mostly on consumer suggestions and open-source innovation, protecting the expertise recent and adaptive.”
There are six core fashions of CyberData NAS, beginning with the CF500: a five-bay HAS with two M.2 slots for solid-state drives, an Intel Processor N150 with 4 cores working at a lift clock of as much as 3.6GHz, 8GB of DDR5 expandable to 48GB, 32GB of eMMC storage, two USB 3.2 Gen. 2 10Gb/s ports and two USB 2.0 480Mb/s ports, HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.4 video outputs, and a single 2.5-gigabit-Ethernet port. The CF500 Professional upgrades to the eight-core up-to-3.8GHz Intel Core N305 processor, helps as much as 64GB of DDR5, and provides a 10-gigabit-Ethernet port; the CF6 has the identical specs however upgrades to 16GB of DDR5 as normal, 64GB of eMMC storage, and drops assist for mechanical laborious drives in favor of six M.2 slots.
The CF56 has the identical processor, the identical 16GB of DDR5 reminiscence, the identical 64GB of eMMC storage, however contains 5 laborious drive bays and 6 M.2 slots. The CF56 Professional, although, is the lowest-level mannequin to truly assist ORICO’s deliberate native AI options, because of a extra highly effective 12-core 16-thread Intel Core i5-1240P processor working at as much as 4.4GHz, 16GB of DDR5 expandable to 96GB, a 128GB SSD, two 10-gigabit-Ethernet ports, and two USB 4.0 ports on high of two USB 3.2 Gen. 2 and two USB 2.0 ports. The show outputs additionally profit from an improve to HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4a, each with 8k assist. The CF1000 Professional, in the meantime, doubles the inventory reminiscence to 32GB of DDR5, doubles the laborious drive bays to 10 whereas dropping again to 2 M.2 SSD slots.
For these on the lookout for most efficiency for working native fashions, ORICO additionally helps add-in graphics playing cards — not within the NAS packing containers themselves, however within the GT550 or GT800 exterior GPU docks. These assist as much as an NVIDIA RTX 5060Ti/AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT or beneath and an NVIDIA RTX 5090 D or AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT or beneath respectively, connecting to the host NAS over a USB 4.0 reference to as much as 40Gb/s of bandwidth. Storage enlargement packing containers are additionally obtainable, including 5 laborious drives and three M.2 SSDs within the HD8 or ten laborious drives within the HD10.
No matter mannequin, all of the NASes are designed to run ORICO’s in-house working system, dubbed the CyberData OS. “An modern, absolutely self-developed working system that mixes localized intelligence, intuitive controls, and real-time updates,” the corporate says of its software program. “It helps seamless cross-platform and cross-device information collaboration, connecting apps throughout smartphones, computer systems, and TVs for a unified expertise and expanded performance. A number of storage areas and consumer permissions, end-to-end encryption and real-time intrusion blocking guarantee information privateness.”
The ORICO CyberData NAS vary is now funding on Kickstarter, with bodily rewards beginning at $349 for the entry-level CyberData CF500 — a claimed 30 % low cost from the deliberate retail value — and with {hardware} anticipated to ship this September.
