An RAID for every application
Using two hard drives in an RAID network offers a whole host of benefits, making this a popular, widely used solution as a result. However, anyone wanting to capitalise on these benefits often has to spend a lot of time checking back on the system. That's because not every motherboard is equipped with an RAID controller and laptops cannot normally be used per se. The ICY BOX IB-RD3621U3 offers a solution to this problem, effectively converting two 3.5'' SATA hard drives into a high-performance RAID network.
Various modes are available, including JBOD, RAID 0, BIG and RAID 1. Using these modes, users can choose between increased speed, mirroring of data for greater resilience, detection of HDDs as individual drives and detection of both hard drives as one big drive. The striping functionality (RAID 0) in particular is given a boost thanks to the modern USB 3.0 port, which makes it possible to achieve transfer rates as high as 5 Gbit per second. The hard drives also produce lower operating temperatures over a longer service life thanks to the active cooling provided by a 6-cm-large, low-noise fan.
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