In this day and age where everyone has a lot of media content to save or use, DAS devices become particularly important, especially because not everyone needs a NAS, which is more expensive, because it still works. locally. The well-known manufacturer ORICO has just announced the launch of its best THE To date, the 5Large which, as its name suggests, is at least… “big”.
ORICO is a manufacturer that has been in the industry for many years, and while it is best known for its accessories and adapters, it has also been offering a more than decent range of USB DAS for PCs for some time now. In case you don’t know, the difference between a NAS and a DAS is that the DAS only works locally, it does not connect to the Internet, but the advantage is that it is more secure and also cheaper.
ORICO’s new DAS is a beast
As we anticipated from the title of this article, the main capabilities of the new ORICO 5Big DAS are that it supports up to 110TB of capacity with a maximum theoretical transfer rate of 40Gbps, which is really amazing. The DAS has 5 bays for installing 3.5/2.5 inch hard drives, which means it supports hard drives with a capacity of up to 22TB each.
The 5 hard drive bays can be removed and inserted “hot” (without having to turn off the device) and from the outside, without disassembling anything. In addition, it has a peculiarity and that is that it supports the connection of several of these DAS in daisy chain, technically up to 3 5Big units, which means that we could have 330 TB connected to the PC via USB. Of course, it has data recovery and backup systems, as well as 7 RAID modes (RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 10, JBOD, Normal (individual disks)), ensuring data redundancy for backup the content that we decide to keep inside.
The storage system of this ORICO DAS offers a speed of up to 40 Gbps through its USB-C ports, although as you will guess at the end, the speed will be limited by the hard drives that we install inside. However, if, for example, you connect an external M.2 SSD via USB-C to the unit to dump its contents, you’ll get that huge speed. Note that the DAS also has an HDMI output for connecting a monitor directly to the device, and supports 8K resolution at 30 Hz.
The ORICO 5Big has dimensions of 259 x 146 x 196 mm, includes a 150 W power adapter and has active drive cooling thanks to its aluminum body and a large fan inside. The device is now available for purchase in the manufacturer’s online store at a price of $419.14and it should not take long to reach the usual stores where this manufacturer sells, including Amazon. There is also a cheaper alternative ($227.79) which does not have a RAID controller or a 40 Gbps USB-C port.
