: In 2011, IOCELL Networks purchased the NDAS and NetDisk patents from Ximeta, though the technology eventually faded into obscurity as cloud storage and high-speed standard NAS took over.
This meant that the operating system treated the drive as a local block device. This allowed for significantly faster read/write speeds than contemporary NAS devices because it bypassed the heavy overhead of the TCP/IP file-sharing protocols.
This made NDAS fantastic for backup destinations or temporary offloading of large files, but poor for collaborative work environments.
Allows mixed environments (Windows, Mac, Linux) to share the disk, typically in "Single-Write/Multi-Read" mode to prevent data corruption.
The rise of cheap, standards-compliant NAS devices (Buffalo LinkStation, later WD My Cloud) and the increasing complexity of maintaining proprietary kernel drivers for Windows updates doomed NDAS. Cloud storage (Dropbox, Google Drive) was the final nail.
Since it doesn't use TCP/IP, you never have to worry about DHCP, static IPs, or subnet masks. User Manual - FCC Report
Yes. The NDAS software supports multiple devices. Just add each Device ID/Key pair separately.
This is the most critical step. You need your device's unique key.
The NDAS software installed on Windows or Mac computers made the drive appear as a local physical disk (like drive D: or E:). Every read/write command was sent over the network directly to the drive, which processed it at the block level—similar to a direct SATA or USB connection. This gave NDAS a theoretical performance advantage over standard NAS, as it bypassed the overhead of network file protocols like SMB/CIFS.
When we talk about "Ximeta NetDisk NDAS software," we are generally referring to a suite of tools. Depending on the version and driver CD, the package includes: