FireWire® 800/400+USB 2.0 Hardware RAID-1 (Mirrored) Data Redundant Solution with up to 1.0TB + 1.0TB storage capacity
Provides "live activity" backup/data redundancy of your critical data with Plug and Play simplicity on any Mac or PC.
MAXimum Performance & Compatibility
Underneath Guardian MAXimus’s sleek, unassuming housing beats the heart of a super protector ready to save large amounts of precious data quickly, reliably, and effortlessly. Pre-configured hardware RAID solutions feature 2 paired lightning fast SATA drives with up to 1.0TB each of storage capacity and a high speed Oxford 924 FireWire 800/400 & USB 2.0 chipset to deliver some of the fastest single drive transfer rates possible...up to 100MB per second!
Enclosure only kits also available for "add your own hard drive" flexibility and economy. Thanks to its 2 FireWire 800 ports, 1 FireWire 400 port, and 1 USB 2.0 port, Guardian MAXimus offers Plug-and-Play connectivity of vault-like mirrored data storage performance to ANY computer with an available FireWire or USB port.
MAXimum Real Time Redundancy
Real performance can also be measured by intangibles like having peace of mind knowing your critical data is always safe! Should you experience a hard drive failure, the ever vigilant Guardian MAXimus automatically and seamlessly continues data read/write functions with the remaining drive. And with the convenient front panel drive status LEDs, you’ll know at a glance which drive is being accessed and if you need to take any action.
MAXimum Portability
With its shock resistant design, diminutive 5.8 pound weight (Bare case is
2 pounds, 10.8oz.), and 9.3" x 2.8" x 5.6" (237mm x 72mm x 142mm) dimensions, Guardian MAXimus is ready to go to wherever you need a storage sentinel on duty.
Guardian MAXimus Reviews & Awards
NewerTech Guardian
Maximus WINS 2008 Macsimum Macworld Award “the fastest drive with the
biggest oomph in the smallest form we’ve seen.” - Macsimum News
American Photo 2007 Editor’s Choice/ Digital Storage and Display: NewerTech Guardian Maximus
"Outstanding!"
- The Mac Observer
"Perfect Space-to-Speed Ratio That’s So Important to Graphic Professionals, Digital Photographers and Designers."
Newertech Guardian Maximus Backup Drive Awarded Storage Visions 2008 Finalist At CES
- Applelinks.com
Why You Need Guardian MAXimus RAID-1 Guardian MAXimusis "live activity" backup of financial records, medical files, business projects...any critical data that you simply cannot risk losing. It's always guarding against data loss by writing the same information in real-time to two separate drives for a "mirrored" copy. It also protects you from costly system downtime and data restoring after a single hard drive-equipped system crash. Even daily scheduled software driven data backups can't protect you from the time of your last backup and when the hard drive fails.
Our solutions work with OS X Leopard's Time Machine feature to keep an up-to-date copy of all of your files and documents. Go back in time to recover anything with ease.
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Software Included
Prosoft Engineering® Data Backup 3 for Mac OS X v10.2.8
or later
Backup Made Easy. Data Backup makes it easy to backup to FireWire and USB drives, network drives, CDs and even DVDs. Make schedules so you don'tneed to 'think' about backing up... It does it for you. A $59.00 Value!
Intech® SpeedTools Utilities™
Intech Hard Disk SpeedTools consists of a suite of utilities managed by an application which administers the launching, documentation and version control of each individual component utility, such as Disk Defrag and QuickBack. An easy-to-use installation and removal application is provided to make installation a snap, Intech SpeedTools is powerful enough to allow you to customize which utility component set you would like to create. An $89.95 Value!
NovaStor NovaBACKUP® Solution for Windows®
NovaBACKUP has been helping millions of users recover from data loss and disasters for over 18 years. Feature rich, NovaBACKUP provides a powerful backup solution. Built-in support for hundreds of the most popular storage devices and a step-by-step backup and restore wizard makes NovaBACKUP extremely easy to use. Requires Windows 2000 and later. A $49.95 Value!
Product Specifications
Drive Type
Two paired (identical) 3.5" SATA (Type I/II) drives
Bridge Chipset
Custom Oxford 924 FW400(1394A) FW800(1394B) and USB 2.0 Integrated Chipset
Drive Rotation Speed
7200RPM
Data Cache Size
32 Megabyte (2 Drives with 16MB (16,384K) cache each)
Maximum Data
Transfer Rate:
FireWire 800 - 800Mbps (or 100MB/sec)
FireWire 400 - 400Mbps (or 50MB/sec)
USB 2.0 - 480Mbps (or 60MB/sec)
Mac Requirements
Mac OS 8.6 to 9.2.2 compatible, OS X 10.1.x and later (10.2 or later required for FW800 and USB 2.0)
FireWire 800: Macintosh with FireWire 800 interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI FireWire 800 card.
FireWire 400: Macintosh with FireWire 400 interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI FireWire 400 card.
USB 2.0: Macintosh with USB 2.0 interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI USB 2.0 card.
Windows Requirements
Windows ME and later.
Windows 2000 or later required for FW800 Operation.
Power Supply
US/International 100~240V 4.2A - UL Listed power supply
Two Year Repair/Replacement Warranty - In addition to NewerTech's two year warranty, the internal hard drive mechanism may be covered by up to an additional three year warranty direct with the drive manufacturer.
Note: Do not disassemble or otherwise open your NewerTech storage solution prior to the conclusion of the NewerTech warranty period. Doing so will void the remainder of the NewerTech warranty.
This NewerTech Guardian MAXimus storage solution includes:
2x400GB External NewerTech Guardian MAXimus storage solution
1) Power switch 2) Power receptacle 3) (2) FireWire 800 9 pin ports 4) (1) FireWire 400 6 pin port 5) (1) USB 2.0 "B" port (backwards compatible with USB 1.1) 6) Kensington® security slot provides ability to anchor Guardian MAXimus to a desk
