Promise Technology SmartStor DS4600 4TB

The PROMISE SmartStor DS4600 is a complete 4-bay Firewire/USB/eSATA RAID solution equipped with four 1TB 7200-rpm SATA drives and powerful hardware RAID engine for small servers, creative pro workstations, power users and consumers that need blazing fast external storage, increased data capacity and robust data protection.

• Easy to Use and Easy to Manage
Requires “zero” configuration out of the box. Simply unpack, connect power cable and Firewire 800 cable (or cable of your choice) and you are ready to store data and perform backups via Time Machine. Managing the DS4600 is just as “simple” with SmartNAVI Management software for Mac OS X. SmartNAVI has been redesigned to provide the “look and feel” Mac OS X users expect from a graphical user interface.

• Best in Class Performance
The SmartStor DS4600 features the best in class performance over Firewire 800, High Speed USB 2.0 and eSATA 3G interfaces. Transfer your digital media at lightning speeds between your Mac Computer and the SmartStor DS4600.
Firewire 400 sustained performance: up to 45MB/s
Firewire 800 sustained performance: up to 90 MB/s
High Speed USB 2.0 sustained performance: up to 35MB/s
eSATA 3G sustained performance: up to 220MB/s (performance varies depending on 3rd party HBA Performance)

• 4 Bay Hot-swappable Enclosure featuring 7200 RPM SATA 3Gb/s drives
• 4TB storage capacity (4x1TB) and Pre-formatted in HFS+ File System
• Firewire 400 (1x), Firewire 800 (2x), USB 2.0 (1x) and eSATA 3G (1x) Interfaces
• RAID 0, 1, 5, 5 with Hot Spare (One volume per DS4600)
• SmartNAVI 2.0 Advanced Monitor Utility for Mac OS X
• SmartSync Backup Utility supports Drag and Drop and One Touch Backup
• Hot Spare, Robust Error Handling and Disk Roaming
• Event Notification: Email, Audible (buzzer) and Visual (via LEDs)
• Enclosure management information: Fan Speed, Temperature and Voltage
• Low Power Consumption: 15W in Standby, 36W Idle and 40W Full Load
• 2 Year Warranty with 1 Year Limited on Fan and Power Adapter