Interesting 8bay RAID Enclosure

[sboesch]

I was poking around and found the Hotway H8R2-SU3S2
http://www.hotway.com.tw/products/h8r2-su3s2.htm
Looks interesting if you are ok with esata.

 

[Patrick]

Also does USB 3 which might be a bit faster at this point. I really wanted to use those types of units, but the power supplies and such are usually scary.

 

[kurtkurtosis]

AnandTech reviewed the unit rebranded as Mediasonic ProBox 8 Bay External Hard Drive Enclosure yesterday:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6128/mediasonic-probox-8bay-35-usb-30-esata-das-review

 

[Patrick]

Saw that review. Was not jumping to order one.

 

[Jeggs101]

jmicron no good. cascades of jmicron worse.

p - you guys should sell nas - das enclosures.

 

[sboesch]

I can pretty much agree with everyone here, I am not OK with esata with more than one drive attached. Some people don't have the budget and know how to use a decent controller with decent storage. I think this would be a decent device for a shoho environment.

 

[odditory]

Any storage product that comes with a little keylock and two keys is always garbage

 

[sboesch]

Any storage product that comes with a little keylock and two keys is always garbage

What he said! LOL

 

[RimBlock]

I was thinking of getting a USB2 4 bay version, stripping out the backplane and then trying to find a compatible backplane from Intel or the like to replace it. Add in some SATA -> SAS cabling and you get 4 channels for 4 drives. The USB version was being sold for around US$100. Saying that I am now looking to stock and offer the NSC-400 unit with 4x hotswap, 2 internal drive mountings and the FSP 250W PSU for around US$140 + delivery so not sure I will bother with the Hotway now.

RB