Venus T5 eSATA RAID Array, 5-Bay with SATA Port
Multiplier
Silicon Image SiI4726 Port Multiplier/RAID processor built in!
Complete with installed and tested hi-performance SATA II hard drives!
Affordable, reliable and scalable solution for audio/video editing, small
office/home office and small to medium-sized storage! This 5 drive
enclosure with built in Silicon Image SiI4726 hardware RAID processor is capable of delivering over 230 megabytes per second of input/output
throughput!
5-Bays with hot-swappable trays
Up to 5TB of installed hi-performance storage
Supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and JBOD
SATA Port Multiplier Compliant
PC and Mac compatible
Includes 2-port x1 PCI Express card
eSATA connector and
Dual 8cm Cooling Fans
Includes 2-port PCI Express card
$49.95 value!
RAID Level Modes:
FAST or Data Striping (RAID 0) — allows the enclosure to performance stripe the drives, to provide maximum throughput to the direct attached PC/Server.
SAFE or Data Mirroring (RAID 1) — allows the enclosure to automatically copy primary hard drive without any CPU
loading*. The enclosure provides automatic rebuild on device replacement and auto-failover, to eliminate any workflow interruptions.
SAFE & FAST or Data Striping and Mirroring (RAID 10) — allows the
enclosure to improve data availability beyond RAID 5 or RAID 6 with large SATA drives, due to rebuild vulnerability.
SAFE & BIG Mode or Drive Spanning and Mirroring — allows for large capacity with protection.
BIG or Drive Spanning — allows the enclosure to make any two drives (same or different sizes) appear as one large drive to the host, for extra capacity (also called concatenation).
JBOD or Port Multiplier — this allows the direct attached PC/Server to see
the drives in the enclosure as just a bunch of drives.
Data Protection Features:
Automatic-Mirroring (RAID 1 mode)*
Self-healing storage (Auto-Rebuild/Hot Spare)*
No down time (Automatic-Failover)*
Less than 1% Host CPU loading during rebuild*
Fast rebuild of 100GB/hour
Easy configuration using GUI applet
Drive Performance Aggregation (RAID 0)
*SAFE or RAID 1 modes require that the Silicon Image daemon/agent application to be running for automatic rebuild policy operation.
Features:
Five hot-swappable 3.5" drive trays
Five tested and installed hi-performance SATA II hard drives
SATA II compliant, 1.5Gb/s and 3Gb/s auto-negotiation
Built-in SiI4726SATA port multiplier for one cable to host simplicity
Drive power and drive presence LEDs
Built-in universal power supply
Dual 8cm Cooling Fans with Hi/Low Speed Control
Standards-approved eSATA connector rated at 5,000 insertions
Includes:
Venus T5 5-Bay eSATA Enclosure
Five hot-swappable 3.5" drive trays
Five tested and installed hi-performance SATA II hard drives
eSATA data cable
AC Power cord
Set of mobile rack keys
PCI Express card
Driver disk
Specifications:
Connectors: One eSATA connector
Cooling: Dual 8cm Cooling Fans with Hi/Low Speed Control
