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Newer Technology Guardian MAXimus mini portable RAID solution

by Steven Sande (Apr 28th, 2012)

Newer Technology produces a wide variety of storage solutions for the Mac OS X world, and one new product is sure to be popular with anyone who needs the security of RAID storage in a portable package. The Guardian MAXimus mini is a rugged pint-sized RAID box using a pair of 2.5" SATA hard ...

Hitachi introduces several new Mac hard drives

by Steven Sande (Jan 4th, 2012)

Just ahead of the first days of CES 2012, Hitachi has introduced a line of new hard drive solutions for the Mac. The drives range in capacity from 750 GB up to a whopping 8 TB, and cover the gamut from internal drives to desktop and mobile solutions. The internal drives that Hitachi is ...

Holiday Gift Guide: External Disk Drives

by Steven Sande (Nov 29th, 2011)

Welcome to TUAW's 2011 Holiday Gift Guide! We're here to help you choose the best gifts this holiday season, and once you've received your gifts we'll tell you what apps and accessories we think are best for your new Apple gear. Stay tuned every weekday from now until the end of the year for ...

Western Digital's My Book Studio Edition II: 6 TB of low-cost storage

by Steven Sande (Apr 14th, 2011)

It's a great time to be in the market for mass storage for your Mac. Hardware manufacturers keep coming out with new solutions that either provide more speed (like SSDs) or greater capacity, and the prices keep coming down. Western Digital is now shipping the My Book Studio Edition II, a ...

CRU-DataPort's ToughTech Duo QR: RAID for the road

by Steven Sande (Mar 22nd, 2011)

I recently reviewed the WiebeTech RTX220-QR RAID array, which I found to be a fast and rock-solid array that would be great for office use. After returning the drive to WiebeTech, I was contacted by the company about a new array that could provide the same speedy RAID features in a much more ...

WiebeTech RTX220-QR RAID: SSD speeds at HD prices

by Steven Sande (Mar 5th, 2011)

If you're looking for a 2-bay RAID setup for doing either mirrored (RAID 1) or striped (RAID 0) storage or backup, what do you want? Something pretty and shiny, or something that looks like it can withstand a direct attack by a squad of Marines who are having a bad day? My guess is that you'll ...

Xsan sites gain options as Active Storage steps in with new metadata controller

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 31st, 2011)

So long, Xserve. At the end of the day (January 31), you will be leaving the product sales list after serving the Mac community faithfully for nearly nine years. But today Active Storage introduced ActiveSAN, a high-performance metadata controller for Xsan and StorNext networks, intending to pick ...

Hands-on with the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual mini SSD

by Steven Sande (Jan 17th, 2011)

When I think of RAID, I usually envision a large box full of whirring drives installed in a rack, not a quiet little box that I can connect to a MacBook. Thanks to Other World Computing, the way I visualize RAID will have to change. For those of you who might be unfamiliar with the term RAID, it ...

Data Robotics adds the new DroboPro FS to the family

by Steven Sande (Oct 5th, 2010)

The Drobo family of BeyondRAID storage devices has been very popular with Mac prosumers, creative professionals, and small businesses since the first product shipped in 2007. Slowly but surely, the company has been building up its product line. Data Robotics now has three Direct-Attach Storage ...

Drobo wants Mac users to "Upgrade your RAID"

by Steven Sande (Sep 13th, 2010)

Did you buy one of those "quasi-RAID" storage devices over the last few years? You know, the ones that tried to squeeze a few hard disks into a shiny silver box and call it RAID? In many cases, those devices simply implemented RAID 0 (block-level striping without parity or mirroring) as a way to ...

Data Robotics announces new Drobo FS

by Steven Sande (Apr 6th, 2010)

Data Robotics has just announced a new member of the Drobo family -- the Drobo FS. The new device is designed to serve as Network Attached Storage with all of the advantages of the Data Robotics BeyondRAID technology, with the added bonus of drop-dead simple setup. In a pre-release interview with ...

Iomega announces next-gen NAS appliance for backup and media management

by Casey Johnston (Oct 8th, 2009)

As data backup and media servers become more prevalent, they also become more complicated, with ever more devices to sync and ways to store information. Today, Iomega released a new NAS appliance that can serve as both a backup device and a media server with a view to streamlining the setup ...

TUAW's review of the DroboPro, plus a discount deal for readers

by Steven Sande (Sep 4th, 2009)

Data Robotics delivered their "super-sized" version of the Drobo earlier this year. DroboPro has 8 drive bays into which you can drop 3.5" SATA drives of almost any capacity, from the old 160 GB model you've been using to hold the backup of your iTunes library to that 2 TB Western Digital Caviar ...

Working with a robot: Drobo in action

by Steven Sande (Jan 30th, 2009)

We've talked about the Data Robotics Drobo storage solution here on TUAW a few times, but there hasn't been a hands-on review of the device on this blog...until now. The Drobo is a mass storage solution that takes advantage of RAID -- Redundant Array of Independent Disks -- to provide a single large ...

Drobo Apps gives you cool add-ons for Drobo

by Cory Bohon (Oct 31st, 2008)

By now, you've probably heard about Drobo. It's the ultimate RAID-like array, with USB and Firewire 800 connections, that allows you to store up to 6 terabytes using 4 hard drives (you get about 4.1 TB of usable space, since some of the room is used for RAID redundancy -- see the Drobolator capacity ...