Hi Swappers,
I have a professional grade black enclosure with four tool-less front
loading trays that accept 3.5" SATA drives. There are two "bridge
boards" built into the back of the unit and each board has a USB 2.0
port and a Firewire 800 port. (Note that like most other multi-port
enclosures, you can not use the USB 2.0 port and Firewire 800 port on a
single board at the same time). Each bridge board interfaces to two of
the SATA drive bays. There is a power supply built in as well.
Each of the four bays is populated by a 1TB SATA drive that has a
formatted capacity of around 931 MB. The SATA drives are a mix - 2
Apple branded and two Seagate branded. They are out of warranty, but
all recently passed extensive Disk Utility testing. With all four bays
being populated, there is about 3.7 TB of total capacity! The bays may
recognize drives larger than 1 TB, but I don't have any larger one to
use for testing. This unit does not have a RAID controller, so it's
essentially "JBOD" (just a bunch of disks). I believe that you could
use software RAID functionality in OSX to create a RAID array, but I
never tried that. USB 2.0 cables and an AC power cord will be included,
but Firewire 800 cables are NOT included.
If you have large storage needs or frequently need to pull and push data
from bare 3.5" SATA drives, this is for you. You'd just need one
Firewire 800 port or two USB 2.0 ports. The unit will weight around 25
pounds when packaged, so UPS to a business/commercial address is the
most cost-effective way to send it.
I also have a Mac-friendly PCI-express two-port Firewire 800 card that I
could sell with this unit.
I'd be happy to send photos on request - the like-new condition will be
obvious.
$275, plus shipping for the enclosure with the 3.7 TB of included
storage. I'll only sell the PCI-e Firewire 800 card with the enclosure,
the price on that is negotiable.
Bill Lozito
Victoria, MN 55386
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