Newer Technology (NewerTech) today unveiled the Guardian MAXimus, its first low-cost FireWire and USB 2 external RAID 1 storage solution. The Guardian MAXimus provides "live activity" backup/data redundancy via RAID 1 hardware mirroring to provide uninterrupted full data accessibility in the event of a hard drive failure. A front panel LED display provides drive access as well as status information, and the system guards against data loss by writing the same information in real-time to two separate drives for a mirrored copy of all data. The Guardian MAXimus offers up to 1TB of storage with 64MB of drive cache total, and utilizes a custom Oxford 924 based bridge solution. Ports include two FireWire 800, one FireWire 400, and one USB 2.0 "B" that works with USB 1.1 systems.