FireWire Depot Announced Clustering for the eRAID RAID System

The eRAID System provides RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 3 and 5 or JBOD configurations featuring 1394a, 1394b, USB2.0 and Serial ATA connectivity on the rear of the enclosure. The eRAID system utilizes high-performance 64bit RISC processor, 64bit memory architecure, built-in 64MB SDRAM cache buffer and 66MHz/32bit path at burst rate upto 266MB/sec to control five (5) hot-swapt ATA-133 HDD (no size limited) with unprecedented performance whether Shared or Independent Volume configuring thru Serial ATA, USB2.0 and/or 1394a or 1394b connections. This system offers an SATA interface, but it uses IDE/ATA hard drives. It does NOT use SATA drives. You have the ability and choice to connect via 1394a, 1394b, USB2 or SATA.

Clustering allows two computers to connect to the eRAID at the same time using different ports for connecting (ie. computer 1 connects via USB2 or FireWire and computer 2 connects via the SATA port on the eRAID system). The eRAID can accept 5 IDE hard drives of any capacity. It is always strongly recommended that all drives used in the system are the same capacity. Normal SRP for the eRAID system is $1499.99. Check current pricing online.

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