The Quad comes with four drives in standard and RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 configurations. It’s available from March in 4 TB and 8 TB versions, and a whopping 12 TB variant later in the year. That’s a serious amount of disk space. I’ve just had a rough tot up and I think I could fit every single piece of digital information I have into that 12 TB unit – that’s every single CD, DVD and hard disk in my house. And I have a lot of CDs and DVDs.
As per USB 3.0, data transfer is rated at 5 Gb/s, falling back to 480 Mb/s on USB 2.0. SecureLockMobile is included as standard – this encrypts the data to prevent nefarious individuals gaining access to private information.
Regular readers will recall that I reviewed the previous version of the DriveStation Quad previously. It was stonkingly quick under eSATA so I would expect that the USB 3 version will be pretty nippy as well. It’s not clear from the current spec whether the Quad will be USB 3 and eSATA or just USB 3. I also hope to be able to review the DriveStation Duo in the not-too-distant future.
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