SmartDisk introduces VST FireRAID software
updated 08:33 am EST, Tue January 9, 2001
SmartDisk today introduced VST
FireRAID, a software tool that allows users to use two or more of its external
hard drives together to create a fast, reliable desktop Redundant Array of Independent
Disks (RAID) array, offering support for mirroring (RAID Level 1): "VST FireRAID
is the only Macintosh software product currently available that supports mirroring;
it is also the only product that lets users connect more than two FireWire drives
together." The $100 software is available for $25 and $50 with the purchase
of one or two SmartDisk FireWire or USB/FireWire drives.
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What about LaCie?
This item indicates that VSTs offering is the first product to offer a RAID facility by connecting multiple Firewire devices together. LaCie has provided this facility built in to SilverLining for some time as far as I am aware.