Raidon/Stardom ST4-TB With Thunderbolt2, RAID-0 and JBOD Storage

Stardom Storage Solutions, a brand of RAIDON Technology Inc. , announced the ST4-TB with Thunderbolt2, RAID-0 & JBOD Storage.

The fast, versatile I/O in any desktop of any size, up to 25x faster than Firewire800, Thunderbolt2 technology in ST4-TB is fast. The two Thunderbolt2 ports on ST4-TB features dual 20-Gb/s channels for data transfer and that’s up to four times faster than USB 3.0.

But beyond speed, Thunderbolt gives expansion capabilities. You can daisy-chain as many as six Thunderbolt devices to a single port. And since Thunderbolt is based on display port technology, mini display port devices like Apple LED Cinema display can plugs right in, too.

Compact and portable
For field editing applications, the ST4-TB can be made portable as it comes with a grip handle, which you can choose to install for making creative contents mobile convenient and less bulky.

The ST4-TB built-in with two disk configuration modes: RAID-0 (Speed Mode), and JBOD (Four Independent Volumes).

With two optional storage modes, user can choose between RAID-0 and independent mode. In RAID-0 mode, the enclosed four drives will be striped and combined into one large volume for storage to enhance the data transfer speed performance. Under the Independent mode, the enclosed drives are seen as four separate volumes instead of one single volume.

RAID-0 functionality increases storage speed and performance
The ST4-TB is equipped with RAID-0 storage mode, which enables user to attain up to 724MB/s read speed with ST4-TB’s Thunderbolt transmission interface. Whether it is used for searching and editing photo galleries, or video editing and synthesis, it promises to deliver an easy operation.

Test Environment
Testing conducted by Stardom in December 2014 using an Mac Pro 3.7GHz Quad-core Xeon E5 with 12GB RAM running Mac 0S X 10.10. Four drives (HGST 8TB SATA III 7200rpm) and two SSD (Adata 64G SATA III) were used as the test volume when AJA tests were performed.

The ST4-TB will be launched on April.