Why a Third Disk Tray?

Ask any knowledgeable engineer the purpose behind RAID and you'll be told its function is to improve the availability of a computer system. While this is completely true, the convenient hot swap disk trays in Accordance ARAID units offer the small office environment an attractive alternative to time-consuming and unreliable tape backups with minimal additional investment.

The ARAID line all includes RAID 1 capabilities for your choice of IDE, SATA, and notebook drives. All come standard with two sliding trays holding your hard drives. In RAID 1 mode, all data is duplicated or "mirrored" to both drives. In the event of a drive failure, the tray containing the defective drive is removed from the ARAID-equipped computer, which is still operating normally with the surviving drive. The defective drive is replaced and the tray reinserted. The ARAID recognizes the new drive and automatically starts copying data from the surviving drive at rate of 1GB per minute. You've just hot-swapped a hard drive with no system downtime and a only few minutes of effort.