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more about #raid more comments → Cash907Censored: "Are you still there?" more » KnifeySpooney: I would never trust this hard drive with my data... Everyone thought the economy was 2Big to fail... and look where that got us. more » OldCrow: Seriously stay away from LaCie. I've had 7, count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 power supplies go bad at work. Never again. more » lankysob: 2 Live Crew will be pleased. more » DMF: What's failed to be mentioned here is that this Lacie 2Big drives have been plagued issues. Most notably, an extremely loud fan. So loud that many use... more » discounteggroll: CR-7100 will hold one 16GB microSD, while the CR-7000 holds one 32GB SD. The 7200 will be available for $30 and the 7100 and 7000 for $25 is that conf... more » Kaiser-Machead: Personally, if I'm going to buy a dual-drive RAID system, I'd rather just get something with active cooling and is easier to swap bad drives out of, s... more » Andre Oceans: Nice to remember macs used to be FUGLY HORRIBLE LOOKING COMPUTERS with CRT Screen, Useless Mouse, Floppy Drive, No Software Support, its amazing apple... more » psychoboyjack: That is win. more » bosskev: There was a point way, way back in college where, for a Mac-based graphics class I was taking, all of us students would keep, on a single floppy, not ... more » not_a_virus.exe.vbs: Could a RAID drive be made to equal the performance of a SSD? more » Alfonzo: Originally stood for redundant array of inexpensive drives, i believe, before a general consensus was reached that this was a damn silly name (way bac... more » ripfire: Why is there suddenly a need to have reliable up-time for personal/home storage? It's very inefficient if you're just going to use it to store video/m... more » Novenus: This is rather lightweight stuff. I wish the author would have explained that most RAID embedded controllers on mobos and for NAS, etc. are software R... more » Xeno: There is also RAID 10 which consists of two mirriored RAID 5 arrays. more » -
#storage
LaCie 2Big: The First USB 3.0 RAID Drive
You can't buy them until early 2010, but LaCie's next generation 2Big drives will be the first USB 3.0 devices to support dual-SATA-disk RAID 0/1 configurations, promising real time HD video editing and burst speeds up to 275MB/s. [BW] -
#storage
Photofast CR-7200 CompactFlash Adapter Runs Four microSDs In RAID
The new CompactFlash adapter from Photofast can hold four 16GB microSD cards running in RAID. This makes the slower microSD format as fast as CompactFlash by striping data across all four microSD cards at once. More » -
#storage
Western Digital's My Book World Edition II Offers 4TB of RAID Network Storage
WD's new NAS drives, the My Book World Edition II, packs either 2 or 4TB of storage in a dual-drive RAID array. It seems like a pretty solid system for those dangerously paranoid about the safety of their data. More » -
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QNAP SS-839 Pro Turbo NAS Shrinks Mega RAID to Notebook Sizes
The QNAP SS-839 Pro Turbo NAS is the smallest 8-bay networked attached storage solution on the market. In fact, it's just a hair larger than a 7-inch cube. More » -
#lacie
LaCie Debuts 8TB 4big Quadra Bundles Including a 32TB RAID
LaCie's new series of RAID bundles include an 8TB model of the 4big Quadra, which is actually just two 4TB hard drives put together. More » -
#gizexplains
Giz Explains: What a RAID Hard Drive Array Is (and Why You Want One)
RAID: It's not just for Warcraft nerds anymore. If you've got a ton of music, photos and video and you don't know about RAID hard-drive arrays yet, read this—or wave your precious media files buh-bye. More » -
#storage
Thecus N0204 miniNAS Makes the Unfortunate Claim of "World's Smallest NAS"
I can't think of another product category less served by the ol' "world's smallest" tag that gadget-makers continuously foam over than network storage drives. But, of course, here we have the "world's smallest" NAS. More » -
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Western Digital's 8TB ShareSpace NAS is One Beast of a Storage Hub
Western Digital's new 8TB ShareSpace NAS is a monster of a storage system for you media hoarders who want to share your good between multiple computers. More » -
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#fail
Seagate Firmware Fix Turned Barracudas into Paperweights
Seagate's SD1A firmware update, meant to fix problems with its Barracuda 7200.11 models, only managed to make things worse—bricking the drives of those who bothered to install it. They've pulled the update pending validation. More » -
#lacie
LaCie 2big Quadra RAID Drive Does Quad-Interface On The Cheap
LaCie's 2big Quadra is half the RAID drive of its bigger brother the 4big, but still keeps all the connectivity with a nice design and a reasonable price tag. More » -
#storage
LaCie Neil Poulton-Designed Hard Disk Max Now Does RAID
The newest Lacie Hard Disk MAX ups the storage of its original Neil Poulton ebony-glazed cuboid design to 2TB, while adding the ability to switch between RAID configurations. More » -
#walgreens
The Insane Hardware Driving the World's Biggest LED Billboard
In a dusty supply closet at 1 Times Square, a computer terminal hooked up to hordes of ethernet servers, RAID arrays and monitors humbly runs the largest LED sign in the world. The sign, a 3-sided, 17,000-square-foot Goliath, debuted last night at the opening of a Walgreens in New York City. Today, I got to see what makes it tick. More » -
#gadgets
Buffalo's Petite LinkStation Mini NAS Has 1TB Storage, a DLNA Server
Fitting a 1TB into a box measuring 5.31 x 3.22 x 1.57 inches isn't all that easy (most NAS boxes we've seen would crush a squirrel easily) but Buffalo seems to have not only accomplished this but shoved in a whole bunch of other features as well. The Mini's got a Gigabit Ethernet port, support for RAID 0 and 1, Active Directory Support, UPS support (to shut down in case of power failure), and best of all, runs an on-board TwonkyVision DLNA server. More » -
#apple
Xserve RAID Is Dead, Apple Promises New Solution
In a stealth move after announcing their new Xsan 2 software, Apple has killed their Xserve RAID as if it were a vulgar HD DVD player. After years of promoting their solution as the best in its class for pro environments, Apple's Xserve RAID page has been eliminated completely and now redirects to a new page which presents the Promise's Vtrak E-Class RAID subsystem. Apple gave us an explanation about why Xserve RAID has been canceled and what to expect from now on: More »
