Just one glance a the picture should make it clear why this RAID box has made it into these pages: It looks like a giant toaster. The toaster in question is a rather ugly one but, like Mickey Rourke, what it loses in looks it makes up for in ability (if not in canary-yellow suits) and in toughness: In this case an all-metal container.
The RTX400-QR from WiebeTech offers almost every interface known — FireWire 400 and 800, USB and eSATA (sadly no ethernet) and four drive bays which can hold a terabyte each. The RAID controller gives RAIDs 0,1, 10, 3 and “the highly sought after RAID 5″. This last lets you swap out a failed drive without losing data.
You’d think, though, that such a utilitarian box would be cheap. It isn’t. For the $900 WiebeTech wants for the enclosure alone, you could buy an empty Drobo and a Droboshare network attachment, or a four-bay Drobo filled with 4×1TB drives. It’s also prettier. Think Nine 1/2 Weeks instead of The Wrestler.
Product page [Wiebetech. Thanks, Hanni!]
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