In these times, where everyone has a lot of multimedia content that they want to save or work with, DAS devices are becoming especially important, especially due to the fact that not everyone needs a NAS, which It is more expensive, since it always works locally. The well-known manufacturer ORICO just announced the launch of its best DAS To date, the 5Big which, as its name suggests, is at least… “big.”
ORICO is a manufacturer that has been in the industry for many years, and although it is best known for accessories and adapters, for some time now it has also available a more than decent range of USB DAS for PCs. 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 have anticipated in the headline of this article, the main capabilities of the new DAS ORICO 5Big are that it supports up to 110 TB of capacity with a maximum theoretical transfer rate of 40 Gbps, which is truly incredible. The DAS has 5 bays for installing 3.5/2.5 inch hard drives, which means it supports hard drives of up to 22TB capacity each.
The 5 hard drive bays can be removed and inserted “hot” (without having to turn off the unit) and from the outside, without having to disassemble anything. In addition, it has a peculiarity and that is that it supports connecting several of these DAS in a 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)), thus guaranteeing data redundancy to safeguard 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 in 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 would obtain this enormous speed. It should be noted that the DAS also has an HDMI output to connect a monitor directly to the device, and supports 8K resolution at 30 Hz for this.
The ORICO 5Big has dimensions of 259 x 146 x 196 mm, includes a 150W power adapter, and has active cooling of the discs through 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 shouldn’t take long to reach the usual stores where this manufacturer sells, including Amazon. There is also a cheaper alternative (€227.79) that does not have a RAID controller nor does it have a 40 Gbps USB-C port.
