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Posted at 7:07 AM on Thursday 11/5/09 by
Ben
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Newegg has the Sans Digital TowerRAID TR4M 4 Bay SATA to eSATA (Port Multiplier) JBOD Enclosure for $150 - $30 off coupon code EMCMMLS29 [Exp 11/11] = $120 with free shipping. It accepts up to 4 SATA Hard Drives, making them available via eSATA. Supports operation in RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 5+spare, spanning and JBOD.
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    Freon - Posted 8:17 am PST 11/5/09 (311 Posts)  Report Spam

    I don't believe this is doing onboard RAID, it only "allows" the host system to use RAID, which is obvious and a non-feature. Of course you can run RAID, it has little to do with the device itself, it only has to present the disks to the host computer.

    Still not a bad deal. I've been looking for one of these to add to a small home server.

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    andy1001 - Posted 9:15 am PST 11/5/09 (298 Posts)  Report Spam

    Onboard RAID would cost you 5 times as much (at least) and be bulkier and power hungry. Not what you want for home server.

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    TM0ney - Posted 9:53 am PST 11/5/09 (623 Posts)  Report Spam

    I got this for $160 and a free 1tb drive I sold on ebay.

    It will only recognize the first (bottom) drive while you have it connected to your esata port on a laptop.

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    TM0ney - Posted 10:04 am PST 11/5/09 (623 Posts)  Report Spam

    Oh, but it does come with an esata pci card that allows me to see all of the drives when I put it in my desktop computer. Copying one 1tb drive to another takes about 5hrs, though.

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    Dogg - Posted 5:44 am PST 11/6/09 (131 Posts)  Report Spam

    TMOney - you need a eSATA port with port multiplying, hence only 1 drive being visible on your laptop. Transfer time is maybe a little slow, but if you are copying to/from drives in the same enclosure, that's understandable.

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