FirewireDirect.com Inc. has announced an upgrade to their popular Vanguard FireWire RAID product line. The Vanguard Series II RAID systems were the first hardware-controlled FireWire RAID product on the market and now include support for RAID Levels 0 (Striping) and 1 (Mirroring) and the latest large capacity hard drives.

The expansion and upsizing of the Vanguard line means FireWire users on Windows, Macintosh, Unix, Solaris and any other 1394 supporting system can get up to 500GB of high speed striped RAID, easily setup on any FireWire port, and running independently of their computer's CPU for consistent high performance. The Vanguard Series II RAID system is built with a rigid, metal casing and rugged design. It has a unique auto-rebuilding feature that in the event of a drive failure in RAID 1 will rebuild the lost data while allowing access to the other drive, a powerful way to protect critical data.

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