This external hard drive has been great tool to backup your home or business computer data. This dual-drive storage system,
yes dual drive, offers RAID 1 mirroring protection for 500 GB of storage. Or, use both drives to increase the capacity to the full 1 TB of storage. I have deployed these on several clients systems to ease the backup process of critical information on their computers.
The setup and installation is really simple with either USB or Firewire connections. It is truly a plug-n-play device and has a very intuitive RAID Wizard software to help you setup the RAID capability.
Performance on this device has been amazingly fast. I have one client who does 3D graphic renderings of his projects directly to this device without any glitches and degradation of speed. I do recommend the Firewire setup for very high performance applications of this device, but the USB has been great to use as network storage by sharing the device.
Are you currently backing up to CD or DVD? Stop wasting your time and keep your data online where it is needed the most.
Additional Specifications:
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7200 RPM Disk Speed -
32MB of Buffer Memory
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480 Mb/sec Data Transfer Rates on USB 2.0
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800 Mb/sec Data Transfer Rates on Firewire
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Dim: 6.87″ x 6.27″ x 4.09″
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Good Guys, great product review on this external hard drive. I just received mine this weekend and it is great to know my data is being preserved on a secondary hard drive. It works just like you said and was fast. I backed up 40gigs of music in less than 5 minutes.