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Promise Pegasus Is The First RAID Storage With Thunderbolt

5:51AM February 25, 2011 | Kyle VanHemert

That didn’t take long! Promise’s new Pegasus R4 and R6 RAIDs support Thunderbolt, Intel’s new 10 Gb/s I/O tech, making for lightning fast transfer with a capacity of up to 12TB. Perfect for anyone who’s currently making their own feature length film and is going through the headache of dealing with all the files! [Promise]


Access Your External Drives With LaCie’s USB 3.0 RAID Box

4:40AM September 15, 2010 | Sam Biddle

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]


LaCie 2Big: The First USB 3.0 RAID Drive

4:16AM December 18, 2009 | Mark Wilson

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] More »


Photofast CR-7200 CompactFlash Adapter Runs Four MicroSDs In RAID

11:00AM June 26, 2009 | Johnny Tzeng

The new CompactFlash adaptor 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 »


WD’s My Book World Edition II Offers 4TB Of RAID Network Storage

10:00PM June 24, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

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 »


QNAP SS-839 Pro Turbo NAS Shrinks Mega RAID To Notebook Sizes

12:50AM June 23, 2009 | Mark Wilson

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 »


3.5′ Floppy Disk RAID Array Provides Nearly 4MB of Usable Space

5:15AM May 24, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

What to do with a mess of floppy disk drives, an iMac straight out of 1995, and some free time? Daniel Blade Olson whipped up what’s almost certainly the world’s first (and only) RAID array using floppies.

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Giz Explains: What a RAID Hard Drive Array Is (and Why You Want One)

4:00AM April 9, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

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.


Western Digital’s 8TB ShareSpace NAS is One Beast of a Storage Hub

9:20AM March 5, 2009 | Adam Frucci

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.

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Gadgets

The Insane Hardware Driving the World’s Biggest LED Billboard

12:30PM November 22, 2008 | Benny Goldman

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. galleryPost('walgreenssign', 3, '');

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