TerraMaster TRAID Flexible Disk Array Management Tool of TOS 5 NAS OS

TerraMaster Technology Co. Ltd. highlights the release of the Flexible Disk Array (TRAID) as one of the key features of the TOS 5 NAS OS.

The TRAID is a RAID management tool that optimizes traditional RAID modes. Launched as a counterpart of the Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR), TRAID gives users flexible disk array configuration, flexible online migration, capacity expansion, and redundancy policies in TOS 5.

The company uses the Linux disk management tool to subtly divide the HDD space of different capacities into smaller partitions, and then combine the redundancy strategy to recombine the partitions. With that, TRAID also improves disk space utilization and provides solutions and security protection for storage space changes caused by new business requirements.

Key features:

Flexible disk array
TRAID has features such as the automatic combination of disk space, HDD failure redundancy protection, and automatic capacity expansion.

Higher disk space utilization
Combining 5 HDDs with different capacities (1, 2, 4, 8, and 10TB) to form a disk array with redundancy protection only provides 5TB of usable storage space with traditional RAID mode (RAID-5). With TRAID’s elastic strategy, you can get 23TB of usable storage space.

Flexible storage space expansion
Once TRAID is established, users can expand the storage space by either replacing the HDD with a larger capacity or increase the number of HDDs.

Hard disk failure redundancy protection
TRAID provides redundant protection against a HDD failure, offering protection for one HDD failure. With TRAID+, redundant protection can cover up to two HDDs failures.

Higher level TRAID: TRAID+
Users can migrate TRAID to TRAID+ by adding the number of HDDs. TRAID+ requires at least 4 HDDs.