Hydra 800+

Hydra

Maximize your storage capacity with four 3.5" SATA hard drives with the Hydra 4-Bay RAID enclosure. An ultra durable aluminum casing provides efficient heat dissipation, plus an extra large powerful rear fan keeps your hard drives cool during long hours of operation. Advanced RAID technology provides extra protection for all your valuable data content. The Hydra will surpass all your high performance storage needs.

Features

• Configurable RAID (RAID 0 striping, RAID 1 mirroring, RAID 10 mirroring+striping, JBOD spanning)
• Utilizes hardware RAID engine
• USB mass-storage compliant (USB 2.0 and USB 1.1)
• Supports FireWire 400 and 800 (hardware acceleration for FastStart & small data blocks)
• 18-Kbyte cache for USB or FireWire data maximizes performance by double-buffering 4-Kbyte packets
• Perforated aluminum casing and extra large fan for excellent heat dissipation
• Smart Fan (automatically regulates fan speed according to the internal temperature)
• Splits larger volumes over 2TB into two independent volumes
• "Hot Swap" removable rack

Massive Hard Drive Storage

The Hydra is designed to house up to four 3.5" SATA hard drives with the option to setup your drives with different RAID configurations. Use it as a reliable backup for your important data with RAID 1/10, for optimal performance and speed with RAID 0, or simply combine multiple drives in one location to create one large volume with JBOD. The Hydra comes with a removable hot swap rack, making installing and replacing the hard drives quick and easy.

Versatile FireWire and USB Interface

The Hydra 800+ comes with a choice of three different interfaces. FireWire 800 where maximising transfer speed is most important and the more common FireWire 400 or USB 2.0 High Speed connections for flexibility to access your data on workstations that do not offer FireWire 800. To keep your drives cool, the Hydra is uses smart fan technology. It automatically regulates fan speed according to the internal temperature. This function plus the rubber padded feet not only optimises cooling but also reduces the noise level.

BIG (JBOD spanning)

The drives show up as one large single volume. Spanning is an array (not RAID) that is written sequentially across the drives. By itself, it does not provide any performance or redundancy benefits. Use this if you have installed 1-4 hard drives with different capacities.

1-4 hard drives

FAST (RAID 0 disk striping)

The drives show up as one large single volume. This mode requires 4 identical drives to implement. Used where speed is the primary objective, RAID Level 0 (also called striping) is not redundant. This form of array splits each piece of data across the drives in segments; since data is written without any form of parity data-checking, it allows for the fastest data transfer of all other modes. However, if one drive becomes damaged, the whole array can become corrupted.

4 hard drives

SAFE (RAID 1 disk mirroring)

The drives show up as two volumes, each representing one set. This mode requires 1 or 2 sets of 2 identical drives to implement. RAID 1 creates an exact copy (or mirror) of a set of data on the second drive. This is useful when reliability and backup are more important than data capacity. The available capacity to the user will be 50% of the total capacity for each set but when one hard drive fails, it can be replaced and the data rebuilt automatically.

2 or 4 hard drives

SAFE II (RAID 10 disk mirroring with striping)

The drives show up as one single volume. This mode requires 4 identical drives to implement. RAID 1 creates an exact copy (or mirror) of a set of data. This is useful when reliability and backup are more important than data capacity. The available capacity to the user will only be as large as 50% of the total capacity of all drives combined but when one hard drive fails, it can be replaced and the data rebuilt automatically.

4 hard drives

Remarks

• This product only supports a maximum of two 2TB volumes!
• For the FAST and SAFE mode, hard drives of identical capacities are recommended! If the capacity is different, the total amount of the space that can be used will depend on the drive with the smallest capacity.

• User manuals
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• Frequently asked questions

Accessories

Extra HDD trays available on request (P/N: HY-NAS-T)
Carton Size: 46.5.cm x 39.5cm x 35.8cm (40pcs per carton)

Benchmark

Test Environment

PC: WinXP Pro SP2 - FDBench v1.01
Mac: Mac OS 10.5.4 - Quickbench v4.0
HDD: 4x Seagate 500GB

USB 2.0

FireWire 400

FireWire 800

Remarks

The difference in transfer speed for the different RAID modes is most pronounced when FireWire 800 is used and files are copied from the Hydra to the computer (read).