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Folks working in the digital content creation industry are always in need of disk space. LaCie has released a new storage product designed explicitly for these folks called the LaCie Biggest S2S 5TB RAID array.The external RAID array sports an eSATA interface capable of 3Gbit/s transfer rates and burst transfer rates of over 200MB/s. Each RAID box is capable of storing up to 5TB of disk space and you can connect up to four S3S units to the included eSATA PCI-X/Express Card to achieve 20TB of disk space.

According to LaCie, hard drives are hot swappable and the entire system is hot-pluggable. Features and specs include:

  • SATA II RAID solution
  • 5 bays with hot-swappable drives
  • Supports RAID level 0, 1, 0+1, JBOD
  • 150 W maximum power consumption

You can purchase the LaCie Biggest S2S with either a PCI-Express card for $3999.99 or with a PCI-X card for $3899.99

LaCie is accepting pre-orders now with units shipping in late August.

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