When it comes to raw power there is nothing to beat the dual-bay Taurus. Available in the classic Pleiades design, the Taurus is built strong and rugged, offering more than enough capacity to store all your digital media files. Not only that, the Taurus Super-S Combo can also back up and secure all of your data thanks to RAID protection. Great performance, great protection and great looks - only in the Taurus.
Massive Storage The Taurus is designed to house two 3.5" SATA hard drives with the option to setup your drives and combine them as one single volume or even using RAID. They are mounted to the enclosure with a silicone rubber ring to prevent vibration and reduce noise. The ON/OFF switch and LED status indication are located conveniently at the front of the enclosure for easy access and good visibility.
Versatile Interface The Taurus comes with a versatile interface, featuring eSATA, FireWire 400, FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 High Speed. To increase performance and data throughput, the "RAID 0 - Striping" setup will be ideal for your daily backup and other data transfers. For important data and reliability, the "RAID 1 - Mirroring" setup will be the best solution, automatically creating a copy of all the data in case one of the drives fails. To keep your drives cool, the Taurus is using a smart fan, which automatically regulates fan speed according to the internal temperature..
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Configurable hardware RAID controller for 2 drives (RAID 1 mirroring, RAID 0 striping or JBOD spanning)
Hardware acceleration of RAID rebuild
USB mass-storage compliant
Supports interface data rates of 300 Mbytes/s
18-Kbyte cache for USB or FireWire data maximises performance by double-buffering 4-Kbyte packets
Perforated aluminium casing and extra large fan for excellent heat dissipation
Smart Fan (automatically regulates fan speed according to the internal temperature)
Carton Size: 48.5cm x 41.5cm x 37.5cm (6pcs per carton)
G.W. 15.4kg
Remarks*
The Taurus Super-S Combo is not designed for only one drive and only works when two hard drives are installed. Hard drives of identical capacities are recommended. If the capacity is different, the total amount of the space that can be used will depend on the drive with the smallest capacity.
# In order for the computer to access volumes larger than 2TB, both the hardware and Operating System need to support large volumes (e.g.: WinVista 32bit/64bit or Mac OS 10.4 and above)
Note: The RAID setup of the Taurus Super-S Combo can be modified during the HDD installation by adding or removing certain jumpers. Changing these settings will require you to re-format the drives. Make sure you backup all data before doing so!
JBOD (spanning)
The two drives show up as one large volume, with the total capacity of twice the size of the drive with the smallest capacity. Spanning is an array (not RAID) that is written sequentially across the two drives. By itself, it does not provide any performance or redundancy benefits. If one drive becomes damaged, the whole array can become corrupted.
RAID 0 (striping)
Used where speed is the primary objective, RAID Level 0 (also called striping) is not redundant. This form of array splits each piece of data across both of the drives in segments; since data is written without any form of parity data-checking, it allows for the fastest data transfer of all other modes. However, if one drive becomes damaged, the whole array can become corrupted.
RAID 1 (mirroring)
This mode requires 2 identical drives to implement. RAID 1 creates an exact copy (or mirror) of a set of data on the second drive. This is useful when reliability and backup are more important than data capacity. The available capacity to the user will only be as large as a single drive but when one of the hard drives fails, it can be replaced and the data rebuilt automatically.
Remarks*
The Taurus Super-S Combo is not designed for only one drive and only works when two hard drives are installed. Hard drives of identical capacities are recommended. If the capacity is different, the total amount of the space that can be used will depend on the drive with the smallest capacity.
