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Maxtor announces OneTouch III Turbo; One terabyte turnkey RAID for the average Joe
Remember when you could fit everything you needed onto a single 1.4MB floppy disk? Yeah, me too. We're old and times have changed. If you pick up one of those new, spiffy Quad G5s and pack it with SATA drives that are filled with digital photos, music, video and The new OneTouch has improved software included (some of the included software is not Mac-compatible, however), a quieter and more protective case design, a self-adjusted cooling system and even new retail packaging designed with not just eye candy in mind, but protection from careless shippers. It's also the industry's first two-drive solution that is user configurable as either RAID 0 or RAID 1 - configurations typically reserved for deep enterprise-use pockets.
The new drives are expected to ship in December. The 600GB version is $549.99 and the 1TB monster is $899.95. Both models feature one USB 2.0 port, one FireWire 400 port and one FireWire 800 port, making them compatble with a wide range of Macs running OS X 10.1.2-10.1.5, 10.2.4 or later and PCs, if you're into that sort of thing, running Windows 2000 or XP.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
markp said 5:15PM on 10-19-2005
>the industry's first two-drive solution that is user >configurable as either RAID 0 or RAID 1 - >configurations typically reserved for deep >enterprise-use pockets.
Hasn't Lacie has consumer level >1TB Raid systems out for some time now?
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Karan Lyons said 7:51PM on 10-19-2005
Uhhhh, 1 terabyte is equal to 1024 GB, not 1000...
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Adrian said 6:22AM on 10-20-2005
When is this coming out? it's been on the website since June. I would buy this the day it comes out.
http://www.g-technology.com/Products/pdf/G-RAID-Pro-Datasheet.pdf
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Ben Margolin said 7:09PM on 10-22-2005
Since when are RAID0/1 so fancy? Mirroring and striping? Come on. Why didn't they put 3 x 350G disks in there and offer RAID5... that would make it worth it. Oh, and an ethernet port would be nice. I like the trend, but seriously, 2 disks inside? That's a joke.
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