We've Got You Covered
Z E V O's Gold Edition brings you all the goodness of ZFS in an easy-to-use solution — plus a few sweet features like rotating snapshots and data redundancy (RAID1 mirroring with self healing).
The Snapshots feature protects you from accidental deletions or unintentional changes. Z E V O saves you from those dreaded Uh-Oh moments.
In addition, the mirror technology spares you the headache of a drive failure. You can depend on
Z E V O to always have another copy of your data safely stored.
Peace Of Mind
It's time to stop worrying about the state of your data.
Z E V O's Checkups provide efficient validation of all your valuable data. Even single-bit errors can be detected anywhere in a file.
This is a huge improvement over traditional repair utilities that can only patch up the system data, but are not concerned with your file contents and require taking your data offline for extended periods.
State-Of-The-Art Design
The technology used in Z E V O was designed from the ground up to address today's storage concerns. The new design throws away obsolete assumptions. Fundamental features like data integrity and scalability are built in not bolted on.
System Requirements
- Mac OS X: Snow Leopard (10.6.5 or later) or Lion (10.7.1 or later)
- An Intel processor
- 2GB of memory (RAM), 4GB recommended
- 20 MB of available disk space
- A dedicated, unused internal/external hard disk
Technical Details |
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| Data Checksums: | Every block of data (including user's file data) is protected by industrial strength 256-bit checksums. | ||||||
| Data Scrubbing: | Users can easily initiate an integrity check of all their data so that hidden corruptions can be detected and corrected. | ||||||
| Data Redundancy: | Supports mirrored disks (RAID1). Data redundancy helps ZFS make automatic/transparent repairs to your data when unexpected corruption is encountered. | ||||||
| Data Compression: | Transparent native inline file compression is a built-in option. | ||||||
| Snapshots: | Real snapshots that are time/space efficient and easily browsable. Automatic rotating snapshot service. | ||||||
| Supported Devices: | Compatible with external Mac storage devices connected via USB 2.0/3.0, Firewire 400/800, eSATA and Thunderbolt. Additionally, all Apple supported internal drives (SATA, SAS and SSDs) are supported.
ZEVO is not designed for use with CompactFlash devices (camera memory cards) or DiskImages devices (hdiutil). |
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| On-Disk Format: | Uses ZFS version 28 with industry standard GPT disk labels | ||||||
| Advanced Format Drives: | Drives with native 4,096 byte sectors are fully supported. | ||||||
| Case Sensitivity: | For maximum compatibility, both case-insensitive and case-sensitive filenames are supported. | ||||||
| Sharing Options: | Your Z E V O storage can be shared by other machines using AirDrop, AFP*, SMB (CIFS) and FTP protocols. | ||||||
| 32 / 64 Bit Support: | Both 32-bit and 64-bit kernel runtimes are supported. 64-bit highly recommended. | ||||||
| Extended API support: | Full native support for the extended Mac OS X APIs including, native extended attributes, bulk access, named-streams, lookup-by-id and searchfs (PBCatSearch).
Note that some applications and services are hard-wired to only work with HFS+ even though all the necessary support is available from ZFS. |
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| *Sharing of ZEVO volumes over AFP is not fully functional in Lion (10.7). We are working on a solution. | |||||||
| Specifications are subject to change without notice/td> | |||||||
End-To-End Data Integrity
Z E V O is your data's personal Anti-Corruption Shield.
At the beginning of your data's journey to a drive, Z E V O examines your data so that it can certify it at any time, verifying that it hasn't been modified or tampered with along the way or at its final destination.
Your data is protected and preserved by Z E V O. What you save to your disk is what you will get back in the future — guaranteed!
Plug-in Architecture
Mac OS X has an impressive plug-in architecture that allows different storage technologies to be easily added into the operating system. In fact, the majority of the file system technologies in use on Mac OS X were developed outside of Apple, yet they seamlessly plug in to give users more options for data interchange.
Some examples of these externally developed storage technologies include NFS, SMB (CIFS), MS-DOS (FAT), NTFS, UFS, ZFS and ISO 9660 (CD-ROM).
Z E V O leverages the incredible ZFS Technologies and has packaged it as a storage plug-in for seamless integration into Mac OS X.
