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When solid state drives finally made it to the consumer market roughly 5 years ago no one could deny that they offered superior data transfer speeds compared to regular mechanical drives without at the same time producing noise and heat. However no one also could deny that such solutions had but two large drawbacks and that were their prices (for most people) and limited storage space. So the solution was quite simple for some and so back then Seagate immediately started working on a hybrid drive by marrying a standard 2.5" mechanical drive with a rather large storage capacity and a rather small 2.5" SSD. The idea was to use the HDD section to store everything you threw at the drive and the SSD section to cache the things you used mostly on your daily activities and thus provide you with increased speeds. The result was the Momentus (and later on the updated Momentus XT) hybrid drive which actually did quite well in the end and did produce better results than regular mechanical drives. Other manufacturers also decided to marry a regular HDD with an SSD but they followed a whole different path and so some did so with dual 2.5" internal enclosures (for example RAIDON), others by introducing cache SSDs and Hybrid PCIex models (OCZ) and a few by following the old RAID 0 solution which basically divides all your data evenly on two or more disks for increased performance. RaidSonic just recently jumped on that last wagon with their ICY BOX IB-RD2121StS 2x2.5" to 3.5" HDD/SSD RAID Converter and naturally we just had to check it out.
Small, lightweight, silent and blazing fast are the 4 things that make the latest Icy Box IB-RD4320STu3 Dual bay USB 3.0 external RAID enclosure by RaidSonic such a great choice for both consumers and professionals.
Nowadays most people own quite large digital media collections and that is the main reason behind the need we have for large capacity hard disk drives (aside for backup purposes always).However single external HDDs are not really the solution to that since they do take quite a bit of space and if you get more than just one you will also have to use more than just one connection port (if you want to have access to all of them at the same time). External docking stations do work well and in some occasions even better than many enclosures out there but with such solutions your drives are unprotected and again most only have two docks. Now there aren't really that many external enclosures available currently out there with more than just 2 bays and the ones that are available are quite expensive for consumer use but lucky for us the market grows each day and so RaidSonic decided to release their very own ICY BOX IB-3640SU3 USB 3.0 4 bay JBOD external enclosure.
Externe Backup-Lösungen waren lange Zeit wegen anderer Prioritäten in unserem Review-Kalender gestrichen, jetzt hauchen wir der Thematik angesichts der Wichtigkeit und immer größerer Festplatten-Kapazitäten wieder Leben ein. Dies ermöglichen wir mit Unterstützung der Fa. Raidsonic, die sich seit 1999 auf diesem Sektor einen wohlklingenden Namen erarbeiten konnte. Der gute Ruf resultiert nicht zuletzt auch in der Qualität der verbauten Controller, der eine der entscheidenden Faktoren innerhalb einer nachhaltig funktionierenden Backuplösung darstellt.
Aber worum gehts es bei diesem Thema konkret? wer heute in der Geschäftswelt seinen Konkurrenten einen Schritt voraus sein möchte oder muß, der hat seine relevanten Daten immer griffbereit und die passen beileibe nicht immer auf einen schnell verlustigen USB-Stick, auch wenn diese inzwischen immer mehr Kapazität aufweisen. Der Homeuser möchte endlich seine üppigen Fotoalben von der internen Festplatte an einen sicheren externen Ort auslagern, damit sie nicht verloren gehen und unser Nachbar hat seiner Frau versprochen, nach dem bitteren Datencrash vom letzten Winter regelmäßig Backups anzulegen.
Storage
Mit der Icy Box IB-250 hat RaidSonic ein extrem interessantes externes HDD-Gehäuse im Programm, es beherrscht nämlich bereits USB 3.0.
Taking part in online game beta tests while also performing hardware reviews at the same time is not only incredibly tiresome (especially if you are participating in 3 closed betas) but also takes an amazing amount of time (even more if you really enjoy the games you're testing) and so because of that lately I’ve been focusing on peripheral devices (such as gaming mice, keyboards, speakers and headsets) which i can use while testing these games in order to save every bit of time that i possibly can (i do need some sleep after all). However exceptions are always welcome and so today we will be taking a look at a storage product the Runner 2420-B3, the latest dual bay external 2.5" SSD/HDD RAID enclosure by RAIDON.
Data security is an issue for all users these days. Losing a single drive worth of pictures, documents and videos can be just as devastating as a house fire, tornado, or even a hurricane for many people. It will remain to be that those things, unable to be replaced, are most missed by any victim of mother nature, or the whims of chance. Our report today is going to be on a product that we believe can tackle this concern. The RAIDon iR2940-6S-S2D RAID Enclosure is an item that just may be able to secure memories and, at the same time, enable this through a very easily understood interface.
Die seit 1999 bestehende deutsche Firma Raidsonic besitzt eine große Produktpalette an Festplattengehäusen. Das Portfolio reicht von normalen externen Gehäusen bis zu NAS-Systemen und Mediaplayern. Wir haben diesmal ein USB 3.0 und E-Sata Gehäuse von Raidon im Test. Wie sich der immer mehr zum Standard werdende USB3.0 Anschluss im Gegensatz zum E-Sata schlägt erfahrt ihr auf den folgenden Seiten. Viel Spaß beim Lesen!
RAID can help improve the performance of hard disks and SSDs, and you can use RAID for increasing data safety in the case of hard disk failure. Each type of RAID has its own distinct advantages and disadvantages. RAID 5 is the smartest option if you want reliability with a large number of disks, but the parity information can have a negative impact on performance. The performance of RAID depends on the controller.
We all know that two is better than one, we have dual core CPUs, dual GPU video cards, and if you really want to get the most out of your storage, a set of SSDs in RAID will boost your performance noticeably. We tested 6 different RAID stripe sizes and 3 different RAID configs in 4 different storage benchmarks, some synthetic, others real world operations. More than 1200 benchmarks results summed up in a few charts.
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