Network Direct Attached Storage

In 2001, Han-gyoo Kim of Korea and Zhe Khi Pak of Russia applied for a US patent on a "network-attached disk".

[2] By 2002 the first NetDisk (up to 80 GB) was marketed as a low cost alternative to full computer based network storage options.

[3] In 2004 Kim applied for a patent to allow multiple clients write access to the shared block storage device.

[6] In 2011 IOCELL Networks announced ownership of the NDAS system and NetDisk patents.

[7] The following year, IOCELL revived Linux client support for NDAS—which Ximeta had "temporarily suspended" in September 2009[8]—by releasing the drivers under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as the open-source "ndas4linux" project.