FirewireDirect Ships First FireWire Hardware RAID System Supporting Level 0 and 1.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2003 FirewireDirect.com Inc. has announced an upgrade to their popular Vanguard FireWire RAID product line. The Vanguard Series II RAID systems were the first hardware controlled FireWire RAID product on the market and now include support for RAID Levels 0 (Striping Interleaving or multiplexing data to increase speed. See disk striping. striping - data 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 500GB of high speed striped striped adj. Having lines or bands of different color or texture. Adj. 1. striped - marked or decorated with stripes stripy patterned - having patterns (especially colorful patterns) RAID, easily setup on any FireWire port, and running independently of their computer's CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. for consistent high performance. The Vanguard Series II RAID system is built with a rigid, metal casing and rugged design. It has a unique auto-rebuilding feature that in the event of a drive failure in RAID 1 will rebuild the lost data while allowing access to the other drive, a powerful way to protect critical data. "Graphic designers, audio producers, DV film makers and all our other clients in digital content creation The development of newsworthy, educational and entertainment material for distribution over the Internet or other electronic media. See DAMS. have been waiting for us to provide this extra level of support for FireWire RAID," says FirewireDirect's Marketing Director, Jeff Questad. "With the extra capacity, this now becomes the best way possible to introduce a stable FireWire RAID storage solution into your work environment no matter what your workstation or server platform." The Vanguard Series II FireWire Hardware RAID System is available and shipping now. http://www.firewiredirect.com/firewire/products/RAID_V.shtml FirewireDirect offers the most extensive line of FireWire/1394/iLINK devices available anywhere, and an upcoming line of 1394B or FireWire 800 products, sold through their on line store and through selected resellers and distributors worldwide. They have emerged as the unquestioned leader in FireWire and SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. RAID Storage Solutions, and offer a wide ranging line of hard drive, CD and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. storage products. More information about the company and their line of FireWire products can be found at their Web site at http://www.firewiredirect.com. The company can be reached by telephone at 512/302-0012 or by fax at 512/302-0064. E-mail inquiries may be directed to info@firewiredirect.com. Reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. queries are welcome. |
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