Product Information
We all want faster performance, higher capacity, greater flexibility and increased redundancy from our PCs. Whether you are a business, a filmmaker, photographer, musician, or managing your MP3 and game libraries, these are the top priorities for you.
Now, with the release of CalDigit’s RAID Card you have the ultimate in reliable support for RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 50, 60 and JBOD, with the specs you want, up to 500MB/sec. at RAID 5, with 16 drives connected.
The CalDigit RAID Card utilizes a dedicated, internal drive channel within your existing system. It instantly expands your present system giving you high availability
access and secure storage for all your databases and large media files, with up to 16TB capacity.
Our unique, cross-platform technology is compatible with MAC OS X, Windows and Linux workstations. All CalDigit products support a variety of software applications and have been validated by Matrox Video Group, Blackmagic Design and Media 100.
| Room to Grow |
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 The CalDigit RAID Card supports up to 16 drives, 4 internal and 12 external. This gives you up to 16 TB of capacity!
CalDigit’s unique chip technology allows you utilize up to 4 of your existing, internal drives. As your workloads increase it is easy to expand your storage capacity. Our RAID Card comes with connectors that allow you to add up to 12 extra drives.
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| Why Choose Hardware RAID? |
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 While software RAID may seem like a viable option to hardware RAID, the advantages of having a hardware solution are many.
CalDigit’s RAID Card is a 100% hardware disk controller that comes with its own, independent CPU. This uses less CPU cycles and power than a software solution and leaves your workstation’s CPU free to do what it has been designed for - running your applications.
Software RAIDs use your workstation’s CPU. This takes away processing power from other applications and slows your whole system down.
Hardware RAID gives you the ultimate in protection from OS corruption or crashes while a software application gives no protection at all. Software RAIDs are also generally more complicated to run and configure.
The CalDigit RAID Card is straightforward and simple to use and includes additional features for optimizing the performance of your system.
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| Engineered for Speed and Protection |
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 The CalDigit RAID Card has been designed for both speed and protection. It comes with multi RAID level capabilities that can be configured to suit your project’s requirements.
If high speed performance is your only concern set your RAID level to 0.
At RAID 1 your data is mirrored on to two drives. This gives you the best protection in a multi-user system. The read performance is improved since either disk can be read at the same time, while the write function remains the same as single disk storage.
With a sustained speed of up to 500 MB/sec. at RAID 5, the CalDigit RAID Card is hard to beat. RAID 5 is best suited for multi-user systems in which performance is not so critical and that do few write operations.
At RAID 6 your system can sustain two drive failures without data loss, giving you dual parity protection. This offers extremely high fault and drive-failure tolerance and rapid speed availability.
And if that isn’t enough, the CalDigit RAID Card can also be set to levels 50, 60 and JBOD.
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| Responsive and Adaptable |
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As a digital professional your workstation needs to be able to adapt to, and support, all your workload needs.
Due to the RAID Card's compatibility with Mac, Windows and Linux workstations and its expandability up to 16 drives it offers a remarkable flexibility. As your workloads grow and your storage requirements increase the RAID Card allows you to add up additional storage units as they are needed.
This gives you "pay-as-you-grow" scalability as your business expands.
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| Easy to Use and Accessible |
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At CalDigit we know that most computer users are not IT engineers. That is why we have designed our unique RAID Shield Client GUI, with the customer in mind.
You no longer need to be baffled by commands and window layouts that are hard to understand. Managing your drives, running regular performance checks and monitoring your system have never been more straightforward.
The CalDigit RAID Card uses anenvironment monitorprocessor to run all aspects of the system.
Our Raid Shield allows you to check your hard drive, add or remove the controller, monitor the controller cache, maintain enclosure conditions, fan, temperature and power supply. You can configure and manage the RAID arrays and fix problems with a simple click of the mouse.
In the event of any errors, alerts or changes to the RAID array an e-mail notification is sent to you immediately.
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| Built-In Intel XScale Core Processor |
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The CalDigit RAID Card comes with a built-in Intel XScale Core Processor.
It optimizes low power consumption, maximizes performance, accelerates data processing and adds protection to storage.
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| Support Battery Back Up* |
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 An optional feature of the CalDigit RAID Card is the support battery back-up. The battery backs-up the cache memory.
In the event of a power failure the RAID Card will automatically switch over to the battery back-up and complete any unfinished tasks.
This gives you an added insurance that no data will be lost or stuck between your hard drive and the cache memory.
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| 256MB Cache Memory with ECC Protection |
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 The CalDigit RAID Card comes with its own, independent cache memory. This is another advantage of having chosen a CalDigit hardware RAID solution. No need to wait while your files are buffered by your workstation’s cache.
The built-in 256MB cache keeps up with you as you edit and buffers your video files.
Our RAID Card also comes with built-in ECC Protection (error correction coding). Any memory errors are automatically detected and corrected.
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| Bootable |
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 CalDigit RAID Card is bootable.
You have the ability to start up from CalDigit RAID Card if you have installed OS such as Mac OS, Windows, or Linux. Starting up from CalDigit RAID Card enables you to troubleshoot your system start up disk when errors occured.
Starting up from your RAID Volume can also give you mobility when you need to take your footage and configured system with you in various locations.
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| Boot Camp Compatible* |
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CalDigit understands the need of using PC application on your Mac. With CalDigit RAID Card installed, you will still have the ability to use Apple's Boot Camp. Letting you start up your Mac using Mac OSX or PC without a single glitch.
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*CalDigit RAID Card is compatible with Boot Camp only when using three internal drives with one other
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| No More 2TB Limitation in Windows Platforms |
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 Windows uses 32-bit block numbers in its lower storage stack. This effectively limits support for hardware RAID sets. To get storage unit sizes beyond 2TB, one had to combine multiple LUNs (Logical Unit Numbers) using the Windows Disk Management.
This limitation gives Window Users no other alternative but to install software RAID. This
defeats the purpose of using an external, hardware RAID storage system.
RAID storage has been around for some time now but no-one has ever come up with an answer to this issue. In a breakthrough for the industry, CalDigit’s highly qualified engineers have come up with a solution.
Now you can utilize the full volume of RAID Card storage in to one single volume to store your data. And with our RAID Shield configuring your system is effortless and easy to execute.
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| Satisfaction Guaranteed |
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 We, at CalDigit, stand behind our products 100%.
The CalDigit RAID Card comes with a one year warranty. In addition, if the RAID Card does not meet your expectations, send it back within thirty (30) days and we'll send you the refund.
When you purchase a CalDigit product you have not only bought one of the best hardware RAID solutions on the market but you have also acquired our legendary customer support.
Any questions you may have, or technical assistance you may need, is just a phone call away.
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