Raid Towers / Racks / Enclosure
The Addonics RAID Tower is a family of RAID enclosures built on the Addonics family of Storage Tower platform. Integrated with a combination of Addonics Removable Drive Systems, Disk Array, and Port Multiplier, each RAID Tower model comes bundled with everything needed to connect the drives to the computer. You can start with as little as one drive and expand to more capacity by adding more drives at a later time. On some RAID Tower models, you can mix and match different type of drives – 3.5” SATA or IDE hard drives, 2.5” SATA or IDE hard drives or even SSD (Solid State Drive) all in the same RAID Tower unit.
Depending on the type of the built-in Port Multiplier inside the RAID Towers, the drives inside can be configured to show as individual drive or to form various RAID volume from RAID 0 or RAID 1 to powerful RAID 5 with hardware acceleration for superior READ/WRITE performance. Once the drives are configured, they can be all connected to a system via a single eSATA, USB or Multilane connection. Hard drives can be conveniently added or removed like an ordinary tape cassette from the RAID Tower by one of the following methods depending on the model:
- Direct insertion of the drive into the drive bay opening in the front – for model equipped with Snap-In Mobile Rack or Snap-In Disk Array
- Mounting onto a removable drive tray – for model equipped with standard Disk Array
- Mounting onto a removable drive enclosure – for model equipped with the Drive Cartridge System
The RAID Tower with eSATA interface can also be turned into the latest Superspeed USB 3.0 connecting by using the Addonics USB 3.0 to eSATA adapter. RAID Tower equipped with the USB interface can also be shared over a LAN by attaching to the Addonics NAS 3.0 adapter.
The flexibility and the large potential storage capacity make these RAID Towers a perfect solution for a wide range of storage applications such as video storage, data backup, video editing, SAN storage and others.
For those of you interested in adding bullet proof hardware encryption to the RAID storage, please visit the Cipher RAID Tower product page.
