LaCie offers a new five-bay RAID tower geared toward video editors, boasting capacity of up to 2.5 TB and sustained transfer rates of 187 MB/s. The system comes bundled with LaCie’s SATA II 3 Gb/s PCI-X Card 4E. Drives are preconfigured to RAID 0 (striped) but can be reconfigured to RAID 1 (mirrored) or other configurations, balancing speed, redundancy and capacity.
Price: $1999 for 1.25 TB or $3499 for 2.5 TB
Site: www.lacie.com
Key Features:
  • Supports uncompressed editing
  • Cross-platform (PC/Mac)