FirewireDirect ships first FireWire hardware RAID system
MARCH 14--FirewireDirect.com Inc. (Austin, TX;www.firewiredirect.com/firewire/products/RAID_V.shtml) has upgraded its Vanguard FireWire RAID product line. The Vanguard Series II RAID systems now include support for RAID Levels 0 (striping) and 1 (mirroring) and the latest large capacity hard drives.
The expansion and upsizing of the Vanguard line means FireWire users on Windows, Macintosh, Unix, Solaris, and any other 1394-supporting system can get up to 500 Gbytes/s of high-speed striped RAID, easily setup on any FireWire port and running independently of their computer's CPU for consistent high performance.
The Vanguard Series II RAID system is built with a rigid, metal casing. It has an autorebuilding feature that, in the event of a drive failure in RAID 1, will rebuild the lost data while allowing access to the other drive, protecting critical data.