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( DOUBLE MEANINGS FTW )]]>Apr 14th 2009 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/Apr 14th 2009 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/Apr 14th 2009 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/Apr 14th 2009 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/
http://www.macpower.com.tw/products/hddmulti/hydra/hydra_lan


Here is the one from the article:

http://www.macpower.com.tw/products/hddmulti/hydra/hydra_superscombo]]>Apr 14th 2009 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/
(Before ranking me down, read the last sentence again, especially the part where it says TO ME)]]>Apr 15th 2009 7:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/
for the layman, put even 2 drives together in a striped raid configuration (which created one "virtual" drive) and you're gonna see a significant boost in read/write performance. This is gonna make photoshop work extra fast.]]>Apr 15th 2009 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/
Anything that doesn't stutter while getting the shake and final cut mojo on is fine by me.]]>Apr 14th 2009 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/Apr 14th 2009 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/
Quickly put for the film peoples ... I would go with the OWC if 8 Gigs is enough.]]>Apr 14th 2009 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/
I have to agree that the benchmarks aren't at all conclusive. Seeing as how the the chip is the port multiplier and RAID controller, and they are the same chip, any differences will be purely academic. ]]>Apr 15th 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/Apr 14th 2009 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/Apr 14th 2009 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/For 700 euros I bought a nearly new Netgear ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer which does everything a NAS and/or RAID array could possibly do to make one happy and then some.]]>Apr 14th 2009 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/
What this all means to you is yes. If this device supports 4 drives and RAID 1, that pretty much means they expect that you'd create 2 2-disk RAID 1 volumes. Or you could do RAID 10 across 4 drives for maximal hotness and speed. RAID 10 is really where it's at when you don't care how much your redundancy costs you -- RAID 5 (and other distributed parity methods) are the "cheap" route for those who don't want to buy double the disk capacity of what they "need".

RAID 10 across 4 drives should give you the 2x the write speed of a single drive and 4x the read speed of a single drive (theoretical maximum). That also assumes that the controller supports parallel reads on different halves of the mirror, but anything that's hardware RAID should do that. Even my Mac Pro's software RAID does parallel reads.]]>Apr 14th 2009 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/
I'll have to look at RAID 10 a bit more as it sounds pretty intriguing.

Thanks again!]]>Apr 14th 2009 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/Apr 14th 2009 11:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/Apr 14th 2009 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/Apr 15th 2009 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/Apr 15th 2009 1:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/
http://www.macpower.com.tw/products/hddmulti/hydra/hydra_superscombo

it appears that the eSATA connection (the one that pretty much goes directly to the HDs themselves) is the fastest.

the controller boards in their products are garbage.]]>Apr 14th 2009 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/Apr 14th 2009 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/
This device presents the 4 internal drives as a single device to the host. If you were to use PM with this, it would be a PM-capable controller in the computer connected to several of these units, each representing a single "device".]]>Apr 15th 2009 12:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/
]]>Apr 14th 2009 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/Apr 15th 2009 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/Apr 14th 2009 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/You people did a great job!]]>Apr 14th 2009 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.macpower.com.tw/products/hddmulti/hydra/hydra_lan
What would be faster in real world gigabit LAN or eSATA by how much]]>Apr 14th 2009 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/Apr 14th 2009 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/Apr 14th 2009 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/Apr 14th 2009 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/
This would be useful for downloading every TV series you watch in HD or DVD image rips. Every single season. All 200 series you watch. Continuously downloading, un-rar'ing, and par'ing all year around.

You'll also be able to do what I do with Netflix. I'm on three-at-a-time. The day I receive the discs, I decrypt and rip the DVD image to the hard drive, put them back in one enevelope, return, and have three new DVD's every two days.

Everyone should have an external RAID, rather it's equipped with NAS, Windows Home Server, or just an external RAID controller. You can easily move them from one computer network to another, sharing with your friends and coworkers.]]>Apr 15th 2009 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/I'm told only Windows server does!

In XP my Raid 1 array works fine, but when upgrading to Vista Home Premium it can't be read.]]>Apr 15th 2009 1:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.drobo.com/]]>Apr 15th 2009 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/Apr 15th 2009 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/Apr 15th 2009 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/owc-ships-4-bay-mercury-elite-al-pro-qx2-raid-box/All drives fail eventually.
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