Desktop Datastore: Accusys Acuta 4S

A Storage Box With RAID For The Desktop

External hard drives offer stellar price/performance ratios, but also leave a lot to be desired when it comes to data security and protection. Any drive defect poses a high risk of rendering a drive unreadable, and its data unavailable. Though disk recovery services can usually rescue what's been lost, those costs can be considerable.

As an alternative, organizations can turn to classical methods for backup, such as tape drives or removable media like the Iomega REV. But most of these solutions either involve proprietary components (typically the storage media) or require specific backup software that may not offer all the features and functions an organization needs or wants.

To provide a different type of solution, Taiwanese manufacturer Accusys offers its Acuta 4S. This hard-disk based offering is designed to be easy to deploy, and uses conventional components and standard interfaces.

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Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.