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Tornado - S5X

Presenting the Tornado-S5X is a small form factor desktop storage system with built-in Enhance RAID Engine that targets DV savvy, enthusiastic gamer, and IT manager. It is a pre-configured RAID storage system that wraps five (5) Serial ATA (I, II) disks into one RAID (0, 1, 3, 5) protected disk, while connecting to the high speed Ultra320 SCSI port. With email notification and remote access built-in, the EnhanceRAID™ 5 is ideal for Microsoft Exchange and SQL server, and provides the fastest, simplest, safest way to share protected data between desktops, networks and work groups. There are three styles of EnhanceRAID™ 5 system available for OEM, SI, and VAR to choose from that best suit for their application environment.

Technology
The EnhanceRAID™ system was built on the world-known hybrid I/O technology, the SATALink™, a SCSI-to-SATA converging technology pioneered by Enhance Technology to bring low-cost SATA disks to the broadband high performance computing environments. The SATALink™ hybrid I/O technology has been since helped resellers and integrators to offer more cost/effective storage solution to the end customers.

Performance

Powered by the latest Intel storage processor, the EnhanceRAID™ produces an outstanding 240MB/s speed to satisfy for users with large video editing, data backup or recovery, and archiving projects.

Appliance-based Storage
EnhanceRAID™ is a host independent storage appliance which provides a transparent and driverless method of adding additional RAID protected storage to an existing IT infrastructure, regardless of your operating system or hardware. With built-in hardware RAID 5 engine and robust functionality and flexibility, EnhanceRAID system truly offers a flexible and powerful solution that will increase your capacity, productivity and add unprecedented data protection, that were found only in the high end storage system.

Easy Management
EnhanceRAID™ system is unparalleled in its simplicity, easy of use, installation, and storage management. Our user friendly Web Graphical User Interface allows one to deploy and manage the disk array from virtually anywhere in the world with simple internet access, no additional management software ever needed. With the "Quick Install" wizard, the storage administrator can get the system up and running in a few minutes; and setting up RAID level, volume, cache, etc. can all be done and monitored through the Web GUI.
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Ideal Applications:

  1. For JBOD or RAID
  2. Data Protection or Disk-to-Disk Backup
  3. Digital Video Recording (DVR) or Surveillance
  4. Video Editing (DV, SD, HD)
  5. Digital Audio Recording
  6. Desktop Publishing

Features

  1. Stylish aluminum body outside and Sturdy metal body inside
  2. Support up to 5 Serial ATA (SATA I/II) hard disks
  3. X style handle design for maximum data mobility
  4. Removable drive tray design supports drive hot-swap
  5. Excellent venting and cooling system design
  6. SCSI 320 ~Transfer rate up to 240MB/sec
  7. One (1) Ethernet port for easy system configuration
  8. Storage capacities up to 3.75 TB (5x750GB HDD)
  9. Support on-line volume expansion
  10. Support RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, 6, and JBOD