Sonnet Technologies has declared the discharge of its Fusion D400QR5 desktop as well as R400QR5 rackmount four-drive hardware-based RAID 5 storage systems. They're valued at $1,335 for a 2 terabyte (TB) model to $1,675 for a 6TB model.

The latest Fusion RAID storage systems utilize Serial ATA (SATA) hardware that ropes RAID 5 formatting -- excellent for data safeguard if a drive stops working -- as well as RAID 0 striping, superior for maximum speed as well as capacity. The system sports its individual RAID controller card, along with features four interfaces: external Serial ATA (eSATA), FireWire 800, FireWire 400 as well as USB 2.0.

The drives contain all four interface cables. FireWire 400, 800 as well as USB 2.0 are supports on mainly Macs; eSATA can be added to flexible Macs like the Mac Pro as well as several MacBook Pro models with the utilize of a third-party controller card.

The innovative drives look very equivalent to Sonnet's D400Q as well as R400Q models. The systems sport a chassis intends that set off Apple's Pro line; the rack component occupies 1U of standard rack component space. Drive bays are hot-swappable.

The component sport LCD displays that illustrate operating performance, as well as controls let user’s choose RAID modes as well as arrange individual SATA drive modules. The systems sustain Mac OS X, Windows, as well as a range of flavors of Linux.