Taurus RAID II

Taurus

When it comes to raw power there is nothing to beat the dual-bay Taurus. This multi-bay hard drive enclosure is built strong and rugged, offering more than enough capacity to store all your digital media files. Not only that, the Taurus can also back up and secure all of your data thanks to RAID protection. Great performance, great protection and great looks - only in the Taurus.

Features

• Configurable hardware RAID controller (RAID 1 mirroring, RAID 0 striping, JBOD spanning and Non-RAID)
• USB mass-storage compliant
• 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)

Massive Storage

The Taurus is designed to house two 3.5" SATA hard drives with the option to setup your drives and combine them as one single volume or as two individual drives. They are mounted to the enclosure with a silicone rubber ring to prevent vibration and reduce noise. The ON/OFF switch and LED status indication are located conveniently at the front of the enclosure for easy access and good visibility.

RAID Mode Selector

The Taurus comes with a RAID mode selector switch to easily setup your drives. To increase performance and data throughput, the "RAID 0 - Striping" setup will be ideal for your daily backup and other data transfers. For important data and reliability, the "RAID 1 - Mirroring" setup will be the best solution, automatically creating a copy of all the data in case one of the drives fails. To keep your drives cool, the Taurus is using a smart fan. It automatically regulates fan speed according to the internal temperature. This function plus the silicone rubber feet not only optimises cooling but also reduces the noise level!

Non-RAID

The drives will show up as two independent drives. Use this if you have only installed one drive or two different drives (not the same capacity and brand).

JBOD (spanning)

The two drives show up as one large volume, with the total capacity of twice the size of the drive with the smallest capacity. Spanning is an array (not RAID) that is written sequentially across the two drives. By itself, it does not provide any performance or redundancy benefits. If one drive becomes damaged, the whole array can become corrupted.

RAID 0 (striping)

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 both of 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.

RAID 1 (mirroring)

This mode requires 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 only be as large as a single drive but when one of the hard drives fails, it can be replaced and the data rebuilt automatically.

Remarks

• Hard drives of identical capacities are recommended for a RAID array. If the capacity is different, the total amount of the space that can be used will depend on the drive with the smallest capacity.

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