Addonics Unveils Cipher Raid Tower

Addonics Technologies announced a family of Cipher Raid Towers, an security solution that provides multiple levels of protection for security-sensitive users.

    
  
Cipher CDC5HXAES ($729)
for five 3.5" SATA hard drives

The Cipher RAID Tower, with AES 256-bit full disk hardware encryption, is a solution for applications that require reliable storage with redundancy and advanced data security protection.

The FIPS certified hardware crypto engine integrated inside the Cipher RAID Tower encrypts and decrypts data on the fly without utilizing any system resources and thus ensures the maximum performance of the RAID system.

Built on the Addonics Storage Tower and hardware encryption solutions, the family of Cipher RAID Towers is designed to provide performance and disk hardware encryption at less than half of the price of similar products.

Users can select from two Addonics’ RAID encryption architectures – Drive Level Encryption (DLE) and RAID Volume Encryption (RVE). Both DLE and RVE offer strong AES 256-bit encryption but at a different price performance.

There is no software to install or special training required. It operates and performs just the same as an ordinary RAID system.

The Cipher RAID Tower can also connect to the new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 port with an optional USB 3.0 – eSATA adapter.

Prices range from $299 to $629 for the seven models.