Products: Facilis

Hard drive sizes increase constantly. The electronics and firmware have to keep up to date, too. This is accomplished with the latest update to the Facilis TerraBlock 3.0. A new iSCSI server module enables 1Gb connections to Ethernet clients. Meanwhile, similar management tools and virtual-volume access are available for the company's faster Fibre Channel products. The system's native virtual-volume feature offers a higher maximum capacity of 8TB for most Windows clients, as well as for some OS X and 64-bit clients (claimed as unique for postproduction users). Even minor details get attention: Both Windows and OS X clients have the ability to schedule background updates to read-only volumes, down to a 1-minute interval. www.facilis.com