Portable drives have been around for a while now, but it’s
rare to find a portable drive that offers all the options of the new DataTale
Pair 2-HDD RAID System. Add two 2-1/2” internal drives to the unit, pick your
interface from one of three and pick your RAID selection from one of four. This
unit shows great promise for traveling photographers and videographers.
This attractive and sturdy portable drive enclosure measures
in at 6”x6”x1” and holds two internal 2-1/2” SATA drives. Installing them into the enclosure
takes less than five minutes. Depending
on your interface, you may or may not need the power brick that comes with the
unit.
You have your choice of hooking up to the drive with either:
USB2.0
eSATA
1394b
(Firewire 800)
When it comes to configuring the unit, again you have
choices – this time there are four ways to configure the DataTale. Raid Master
software enables you to make or change your selection from one of the
following:
Raid 0
Raid 1
Span
(two drives showing up as one drive letter)
JBOD
(just a bunch of disks) (two drives show up as two drive letters)
Using the unit with all those options means each time you
leave home, you could conceivably change the type raid to suit your project.
Granted, all data would need to be removed, but consider the following; if you
are taking a long trip and you want redundant backups of all your digital
photos, having a Raid 1 system means you would have two copies of each file in addition
to your original flash card. On another trip you might need the flexibility of
video editing, so you might want to set up Raid 0 for maximum speed
transferring the files to or from your editor.
The unit comes with a black storage bag to carry the unit
and your associated hookup cables. Before that next big project, you might want
to consider packing this along. Check it out at the Datawatch Technologies website.
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