FireWire Depot announces new products
updated 05:20 pm EST, Mon January 30, 2006
FW Depot, new products
FireWire Depot yesterday announced numerous additions to its SATA and CAT5 network storage solutions. The Sbox series of enclosures offer up to five hot-swap bays via a backplane for more reliable connections. Sbox enclosures feature Serial ATA II connectivity to achieve up to 3.0GBps per-channel. The Multilane, Infiniband, eSATA/SATA enclosures are compatible with 3Ware, Areaca, Promise, or High Point SATA II RAID / HBA host controllers. Additionally, the Sbox enclosures fully support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1-plus-0, RAID 5, or simply JBOD. Pricing ranges from $90-470, and all Sbox enclosures are Mac-compatible. The company also unveiled three LAN and USB 2.0 storage solutions priced from $350-460.
SATA storage enclosures
New SATA enclosures include the Sbox-P five-SATA II-bay enclosure with Port Multiplier ($470); Sbox-M four-SATA II-bay enclosure with a Multilane Infiniband interface ($470); Sbox-E SATA II four-bay enclosure with 4x eSATA interface ($400); Sbox-S four-SATA II-bay enclosure with 4x SATA interface ($400); Mutlilane four SATA PCI host adapter, a Multilane single-chip PCI-to-four-port Serial ATA (SATA) host controller ($120); mSATA_PCI Multilane 4x External, four-port 32bit PCI host adapter ($110); SATA-HDDTWR-D-LCD dual drive Serial ATA enclosure with two hot swap Serial ATA mobile racks ($200); SeriTek/1VEN2-plus-2 External Bundle including one SeriTek/1EN2 External Dual-Bay Hot-Swap Enclosure and one SeriTek/1VE2-plus-2 two-port internal, two-port external PCI-X Serial ATA Host Adapter ($325); SeriTek/2EN2 two-bay Serial ATA (SATA) external hard drive enclosure ($200); and the SeriTek/1SM2 Serial ATA PC card for notebook computers ($90).
LAN/USB2 Storage Solutions
The LDU2ATA525QA-R1 LAN and USB 2.0-to-ATA RAID 1 Storage Subsystem ($460) allows users to share data over Microsoft, Linux and UNIX networks. The LDU2ATA525QA-R1 allows users to share files and folders through an easy-to-use front panel LCD to control configuration and maintenance. The LDU2ATA525Q-R5 LAN and USB 2.0 Combo-to-ATA RAID 5 Storage Subsystem ($1,300) shares files and folders through a front panel LCD like the LDU2ATA525QA-R1 while offering hot-hwap, hot-spare and auto-rebuilding functionality. Finally, the LDU2ATA35Q-R0 LAN and USB 2.0-to-ATA RAID 0 Storage Subsystem ($350) is designed to be a reliable and cost-effective solution for RAID 0 disk striping. RAID 0 striping allows users to install four drives within the enclosure and combine the four ATA drives into one large drive.
