Verbatim 2-Disk Raid External Hard Drive: The Speedy and Smarter Backup
By Wilson • Mar 9th, 2009 • Category: UncategorizedLooking for a reliable and speedy external hard drive solution to store Terabytes of data? If yes, then the Verbatim 2-Disk Raid External Hard Drive is a great choice. It’s a smart looking hard drive enclosure offering a gigantic 2TB of external data storage and data backup at blazing speed. The Verbatim hard drive unit actually consists of two 1TB hard disk drives that can be configured in three different ways for ensuring data security and stability.
The first mode is the normal mode in which both the drives function like any other external hard drive. The second mode configures the drives in accordance with RAID 0 standard in which the data is split between the two disks to bolster data read speed. In both the modes you will get full 2TB space to store the data. The last mode adheres to RAID 1 standards and writes the same data on both the disks to ensure duplication of data. This is very helpful because in case any one drive fails then the other one can be used for backup. However, in this mode the actual amount of storage space which you will get is 1TB. There’s a switch at the back of the Verbatim hard drive that can be used to choose the mode you want but once a mode is activated don’t change the switch until you want to reformat and reconfigure both the disks completely.
The Verbatim 2-Disk Raid External Hard Drive can be connected via USB, but if you have an eSATA port on your PC then you are benefited in a better way. The Verbatim 2-Disk RAID 2TB can copy a 1GB folder in 43 seconds via USB and the same amount of data can be copied in just 16 seconds through an eSATA socket.
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