The Maxtor Onetouch III Turbo drive will be released as a 600 gigabyte (GB) RAID 0 model, and a 1 terabyte (1 TB, 1000 GB) RAID 0/1 model.
RAID 1 can now be used with the OneTouch III Turbo 600 GB models with updated installation software.
Highlights
- User-configurable RAID solution
- Use RAID 0 for high performance disk striping or RAID 1 for automatic mirroring
- Up to 1 TB storage capacity
- FireWire® 800 for fast data transfer
- Oxford 924 chipset
- Pre-formatted for Mac; easily formatted for Windows®
- Available in RAID 0 only, and RAID 0 / RAID 1 (user configurable) configurations.
What does this mean?
Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo drives…
Please Note: WD Drive Manager will appear in the System Tray only when your WD My Book external hard drive is attached to your computer. The software can be downloaded from the Downloads Library.
Examples of what it does on single WD My Book drives:
- When you mouse over the WD icon, the WD Drive Manager will show you the drive status: Drive Name, Volume Letter, Percent Used, Temperature Status. If the drive is healthy, the icon is steady and dark blue.
- When you right-click on the Drive Manager icon, it will allow you to safely remove the drive.
- Left-click on the…
Note: A RAID 0 array is not fault tolerant. It is recommended that you backup any important data that you decide to store on the array.
To create a RAID 0 array please follow the steps below:
- With the computer powered off, follow the instructions for installing the RAID controller correctly and connect both Serial ATA hard drives to the controller.
- Boot your computer with the controller and drives already installed.
- Watch your boot screens for a prompt that will ask you to press the Control and F keys at the same time to enter the Fastbuild utility and press those keys to enter.
- Press the 1 key to enter…
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Standard RAID levels – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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