Room to Grow
The HDElement gives you room to grow. Thanks to CalDigit RAID Card's multiple external ports. You can connect up to 3 HDElements*, that's up to 12 additional drives. As your workloads increases, it is easy to expand your storage capacity. This gives your total capacity of up to 24 TB with just 3 HDElements.

*The HDElement is the exclusive external storage solution for the CalDigit RAID Card,
and requires the CalDigit RAID Card to function.

Engineered for Speed and Protection
The HDElement is designed for both speed and protection. It supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6 and JBOD.

The HDElement with multiple RAID level capabilities, can be configured to suit your project’s requirements.
With a sustained speed of up to 500 MB/sec*. at RAID 5, the HDElement is a great choice for your workflow that offers extremely high fault and drive-failure tolerance and rapid speed availability.

Easy to Use and Accessible
At CalDigit we know that most computer users are not IT engineers. That is why we have designed our unique RAID Shield Client GUI, with the customer in mind. You no longer need to be baffled by commands and window layouts that are hard to understand. Managing your drives, running regular performance checks and monitoring your system have never been more straightforward.

The HDElement uses an environment monitor processor to run all aspects of the system. Our Raid Shield allows you to check your hard drive, add or remove the controller, monitor the controller cache, maintain enclosure conditions, fan, temperature and power supply. You can configure and manage the RAID arrays and fix problems with a simple click of the mouse.

In the event of any errors, alerts or changes to the RAID array an e-mail notification is sent to you immediately.

Active Sustained Transfer Technology (ASTT)
ASTT is unique to all CalDigit products and was developed by our own engineers. With ASTT, the performance of your HDElement is always kept in check.

Any highs (peaks) and lows (drops) during data transference are equalized by our Active Sustained Transfer Technology. It optimizes the best transfer size and timing between the RAID controller cache and the host machine.

This eliminates performance drops and maximizes the sustained data rate. ASTT also helps to maintain a continuously smooth transfer rate over the whole capacity of the RAID.

Starting up from your HDElement
The HDElement is bootable. You have the ability to start up from HDElement if you have installed Operating Systems such as Mac OS, Windows, or Linux.

Starting up from HDElement enables you to troubleshoot your system start up disk should errors occur. Starting up from your RAID Volume can also give you mobility when you need to take your footage and configured system with you to various locations.