Thursday, May 11th 2017
RAIDON Announces the SR4-TB2 and SR8-TB2 Thunderbolt 2 RAID Enclosures
RAIDON announces new Thunderbolt RAID storage - SR4-TB2 and SR8-TB2 at NAB show 2017, not only comes with Thunderbolt interface but with Hardware RAID chip inside!
STARDOM SR4-TB2 supports four 3.5" or 2.5" hard drive or SSD (Solid State Drive) and SR8-TB2 supports eight drives. Both models come with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, the data transfer rate will be 4x faster than USB3.1. It also supports daisy chain to let you connect up to six Thunderbolt devices through one cable. Embedded one Hardware RAID chip inside, SR4-TB2 supports the RAID level - RAID 0,1,5,6,10 and JBOD, and SR8-TB2 supports RAID 0,1,5,6,10,50,60 and JBOD.
With user friendly Graph User Interface (GUI), user can set the RAID level easily depending on the application and monitor the storage status. Once the RAID is degraded or failure, SR4-TB2 and SR8-TB2 will not only provide buzzer alarm notification but send email to user.
SR4-TB2 and SR8-TB2 support Serial General Purpose Input and Output (SGPIO) function. Once there is one drive damaged, user just needs to click the "light on" function on GUI, the LED of the damaged drive will lights on automatically to let the user know the location of the failure drive. It's easy for user to replace the failure drive.
For those users who need low-noise work environment, SR4-TB2 and SR8-TB2 provide the fan speed control switch at the rear side. User can set the fan speed manually to full speed or half speed to reduce the fan noise.
SR4-TB2 and SR8-TB2 are certified for Mac and Windows and ready to ship at June, 2017.
STARDOM SR4-TB2 supports four 3.5" or 2.5" hard drive or SSD (Solid State Drive) and SR8-TB2 supports eight drives. Both models come with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, the data transfer rate will be 4x faster than USB3.1. It also supports daisy chain to let you connect up to six Thunderbolt devices through one cable. Embedded one Hardware RAID chip inside, SR4-TB2 supports the RAID level - RAID 0,1,5,6,10 and JBOD, and SR8-TB2 supports RAID 0,1,5,6,10,50,60 and JBOD.
SR4-TB2 and SR8-TB2 support Serial General Purpose Input and Output (SGPIO) function. Once there is one drive damaged, user just needs to click the "light on" function on GUI, the LED of the damaged drive will lights on automatically to let the user know the location of the failure drive. It's easy for user to replace the failure drive.
For those users who need low-noise work environment, SR4-TB2 and SR8-TB2 provide the fan speed control switch at the rear side. User can set the fan speed manually to full speed or half speed to reduce the fan noise.
SR4-TB2 and SR8-TB2 are certified for Mac and Windows and ready to ship at June, 2017.
3 Comments on RAIDON Announces the SR4-TB2 and SR8-TB2 Thunderbolt 2 RAID Enclosures
Aside from that concern, I do hope it's reviewed somewhere as it looks like a sturdy semi-transportable case. I have a couple friends that would use such a solution.
I am curious as to why they decided to go with Thunderbolt 2 when Thunderbolt 3 is an option as well. Right now I am considering a QNAP TVS-1282T3 NAS which has DAS functionality via Thunderbolt 3 and uses a Core i7 7700 or Core i5 7500 processor and has a total of 12 bays (8x 3.5" bays + 4x 2.5" bays + 2x M.2 slots).
I'd rather have the 2x 10GbE ports of the QNAP TVS-1282T3 NAS / DAS along with its 4x Thunderbolt 3 ports (40gbps) then the above Thunderbolt 2 raid box.