The Xtore StudioRAID 5Te 5 TB Hard Drive Array for PC from Avid is an external hard drive array for a computer. It boasts five 1.0 TB hard drives, for a whopping 5.0 TB total data storage capacity. This StudioRAID array has a SAS HBA / host bus adapter controller card. It has support for RAID 0, 1 and 5. RAID, or Redundant Array of Independent Disks, is a backup system that stores the same data on different drives, so that if one drive were to fail, you would not lose all your data. RAID 0 is essentially 'No RAID,' but is used to combine all 4 drives into one 'super-drive' for maximum capacity with no redundancy. This might be used by feature film editors or others needing a huge-capacity space. RAID 1 creates a copy of any data that you save, so you have added protection. RAID 5 stripes the data across all 4 drives, interspersing parity data to provide an efficient blend of fault tolerance and storage capacity.
With a 12 Gbps wide SAS bandwidth host and expansion interface supporting both SAS and SATA drives, Xtore StudioRAID 5Te quadruples the standard data transfer rate of a conventional desktop SATA RAID subsystem! Extreme Storage Manager, a user-friendly web-based Storage Management GUI, enables you to control your data storage based on your preferences or needs.