Released in April 2021, NGX Storage 1.8.4 Software provides new features, simplified management experience, new visual reports, new data access protocols, and reliability enhancements for both physical and logical error detection and prevention.

Over the years we improved our core software features in terms of simplicity and reliability. As always, updating to the latest "NGX_Software_1.8.4" is very simple. Just upload the image from the GUI and it's done automatically.

Non-disruptive upgrade process completes in less than 30 seconds. However if you want our support engineers can handle this operation on behalf of you.

What’s New

S3 Object Service

-Support for S3 includes the following:

• Compatible with Amazon S3 cloud storage service
• Accessing to both S3 and NAS from the same bucket
• Object tagging and versioning (with ngxclient)
• TLS 1.2 encryption
• Multi-part uploads
• Adjustable dedicated IP
• Multiple buckets per volume
• Bucket access policies, read-only and read-write
• Multiple user support
• WORM (Write Once Read Many)
• Snapshot and Clone from NAS share
• All  S3 features can be manage via GUI

Detailed storage report

Including capacity trends, drill down lun and share statistics can be generated as downloadable report

Access restriction to api and ui

Improved security, access restriction for both GUI and API interfaces.

Improved drive latency detection and error preventation

NGX proactive error prediction improves storage system reliability which is de-facto at our high-end storage systems. With this update, hard drive error detection and prevention technology came to whole product families at all.

Additional Share and LUN delete notification and warnings

Additional acknowledgement confirmation to protect mistakenly delete or modify operation for LUNs and Shares.

All Share exports protocols can be disable now

Disabling whole share protocols (NFS, SMB, S3 ) can be done without deleting the share.

ifconfig compatible print for all network interfaces and their mac, vrrp addresses

Network interfaces and their status are included the GUI with  *nix compatible ifconfig output.

Bug Fixes

Sending too much mail during RAID rebuild bug fixed.