Engineered for Speed and Protection

The CalDigit RAID card has been designed for both speed and protection. It comes with multi RAID level capabilities that can be configured to suit your project's requirements. If high speed performance is your only concern set your RAID level to 0. At RAID 1 your data is mirrored on to two drives. This gives you the best protection in a multi-user system. The read performance is improved since either disk can be read at the same time, while the write function remains the same as single disk storage. With a sustained speed of up to 500 MB/sec. at RAID 5, the CalDigit RAID card is hard to beat. RAID 5 is best suited for multi-user systems in which performance is not so critical and that do few write operations. At RAID 6 your system can sustain two drive failures without data loss, giving you dual parity protection. This offers extremely high fault and drive-failure tolerance and rapid speed availability. And if that isn't enough, the CalDigit RAID card can also be set to levels 50, 60 and JBOD


Responsive and Adaptable As a digital professional your workstation needs to be able to adapt to, and support, all your workload needs. Due to the RAID card's compatibility with Mac, Windows and Linux workstations and its expandability up to 16 drives it offers a remarkable flexibility. As your workloads grow and your storage requirements increase the RAID card allows you to add up additional storage units as they are needed. This gives you "pay-as-you-grow" scalability as your business expands. system.



ROOM TO GROW! The CalDigit RAID card supports up to 16 drives, 4 internal and 12 external. This gives you up to 16 TB of capacity!

CalDigit's unique chip technology allows you utilize up to 4 of your existing, internal drives. As your workloads increase it is easy to expand your storage capacity. Our RAID card comes with connectors that allow you to add up to 12 extra drives.




Built-In Intel Xscale Core Processor The CalDigit RAID card comes with a built-in Intel Xscale Core Processor. Based on dual-core technology the integrated Intel XScale is the next leap in microprocessor architecture.

It optimizes low power consumption, maximizes performance, accelerates data processing and adds protection to storage.




Active Sustained Transfer Technology (ASTT) ASTT is unique to all CalDigit products and has been developed by our own engineers.
With ASTT, the performance of your RAID card is always kept in check. Any highs (peaks) and lows (drops) during data transference are equalized by our Active Sustained Transfer Technology.
It optimizes the best transfer size and timing between the RAID controller cache and the host machine. This eliminates performance drops and maximizes the sustained data rate. ASTT also helps to maintain a continuously smooth transfer rate over the whole capacity of the RAID.



256MB Cache Memory with ECC Protection The CalDigit RAID card comes with its own, independent cache memory. This is another advantage of having chosen a CalDigit hardware RAID solution. No need to wait while your files are buffered by your workstation's cache.
The built-in 256MB cache keeps up with you as you edit and buffers your video files.
Our RAID card also comes with built-in ECC Protection (error correction coding). Any memory errors are automatically detected and corrected.



No More 2TB Limitation in Windows Platforms Windows uses 32-bit block numbers in its lower storage stack. This effectively limits support for hardware RAID sets. To get storage unit sizes beyond 2TB, one had to combine multiple LUNs (Logical Unit Numbers) using the Windows Disk Management. This limitation gives Window Users no other alternative but to install software RAID. This defeats the purpose of using an external, hardware RAID storage system.

RAID storage has been around for some time now but no-one has ever come up with an answer to this issue. In a breakthrough for the industry, CalDigit's highly qualified engineers have come up with a solution. Now you can utilize the full volume of RAID Card storage in to one single volume to store your data. And with our RAID Shield configuring your system is effortless and easy to execute.

 

Easy to Use and Accessible

At CalDigit we know that most computer users are not IT engineers. That is why we have designed our unique RAID Shield Client GUI, with the customer in mind. You no longer need to be baffled by commands and window layouts that are hard to understand. Managing your drives, running regular performance checks and monitoring your system have never been more straightforward. The CalDigit RAID card uses an environment monitor processor to run all aspects of the system.
Our Raid Shield allows you to check your hard drive, add or remove the controller, monitor the controller cache, maintain enclosure conditions, fan, temperature and power supply. You can configure and manage the RAID arrays and fix problems with a simple click of the mouse. In the event of any errors, alerts or changes to the RAID array an e-mail notification is sent to you immediately.