Those of you looking to speedily dump and access large clumps of data may consider LaCie’s first ever 2big USB 3.0 RAID storage array. The $US349 box offers speeds of up to 205MB per second and storage up to 4TB. [LaCie]
Those of you looking to speedily dump and access large clumps of data may consider LaCie’s first ever 2big USB 3.0 RAID storage array. The $US349 box offers speeds of up to 205MB per second and storage up to 4TB. [LaCie]
QMan
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 1:16 PMWhy buy something that comes packaged with HDDs when you could buy something like an Addonics Compact RAID (http://www.addonics.com/products/raid_tower/cpr5sa.asp) and populate it with your choice of (2.5) HDDs? Sure, it’s eSATA, but you can buy eSATA-to-USB 3.0 converters if you prefer going down the USB 3.0 route. However, transfer speed would be constrained by the SATA II bus rate of 3GHz/300MB/s.
I bought one of the above a couple of days ago. Haven’t had a chance to play yet – FedEx tells me it’s currently at their Destination Sort Facility…not long before my laptop gets a boost with some RAID goodness! It’ll be interesting comparing its performance with my 600GB SATA III Velociraptor-to-SATA III ExpressCard (being ExpressCard, it’s apparently limited to a max bus rate of 2.5GHz, but ran CrystalDiskMark 3.0 on it before filling it with data and got the following specs with 5 x 1000MB passes: 157.3MB/s Seq.Read, 108.0MB/s Seq.Write, 63.31 Rand.512K Read, and 72.24 Rand.512K Write.
If anyone has had any experience running an Addonics Compact RAID on RAID 0, I’d be interested to hear about it.