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 MacGurus Burly
Port Multiplier Enclosures
Up to
8 TeraBytes in
One Enclosure!
Connect up to 5 SATA drives to your computer with one eSATA cable! MacGurus
Burly
Port
Multiplier
Enclosures in
4,
5 and 8 Bay configurations are made to attach to port multiplier capable
PCI, PCI-X and PCI-Express (PCIe) host cards. Containing one port multiplier
board
(4
or
5
bays
enclosure) or
two port
multipliers (8 bay enclosure and Rack Mount enclosure). Great performance and
HUGE capacities are yours. Capable of being formatted into individual (JBOD)
mounted
drives or
in
RAID arrays using
utilities like
OSX Disk Utility, SoftRAID or Windows XP RAID utilities, you can realize up
to 300 MB/sec transfer rates and unparalleled versatility. See our Guide
to Port
Multipliers. Also read more at the SATA-IO.org Port Multiplier pages.
This is the finest built enclosure you can get to
store your data! MacGurus Burly Enclosures use the most robust power supply
(300
WATT) on
the market, great
cooling
with huge incredibly quiet 80 mm fans. All steel construction, you can literally
stand on them. No wimpy little box with the drives stacked
one on top of the other and no airspace between them. These contain full size
Hotswap Bays with solid aluminum trays protecting your drives and fully enclosing
them even when removed from the enclosure.
Every
tray
has
its own internal
fan
for the
absolute
best cooling
you can get. All these features are aimed at giving the highest
stability in temperatures and power supplied. That is the #1 priority of a drive
enclosure.
Is
your
data
worth
the
best
protection
possible?
Attaching the enclosure to your computer couldn’t be easier.
With an eSATA connector on the back for each port multiplier - you connect the
optional
1
or
2
meter
long eSATA cable between PCI host card and enclosure.
Enclosures come fully assembled either ready to install your choice of hard
drives
or already assembled and tested with Seagate SATA Hard Drives for industry leading
performance at bargain prices.
All components are SATAII capable and meet all SATA-IO.org specifications.
- Must be attached to port multiplier capable host card or motherboard bus
- eSATA Connections and cables
- 300 WATT Switchable power supply 90 - 230 volt
- Sil-Image 3726 chipset Port Multiplier
- 4 and 5 Bay enclosure single cable, 1 port multiplier
- 8 Bay tower and rack 2 data cables and 2 port multipliers
- Fully Assembled with data and power cables and hotswap bays
- Optional 1 meter or 2 meter external eSATA data cables, both fully supported by SATAII specification
- Optional with or without drives
- Requires use of a Port Multiplier Capable Host card.
PCI, PCI-X, PCIe, Cardbus
and Express34 cards available HERE
- Spare Drive Trays available at bottom of page
Note: LCD trays will not work in standard bays. The reverse does work, standard trays work
perfectly in LCD bays. So if you have an LCD equipped enclosure you can purchase additional
LCD or standard trays. If you have a standard tray equipped enclosure you can only use
standard trays.
A word about OEM versus Retail Drives -
MacGurus' strongly recommends that our customers avoid purchasing drives
marketed as OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) hard drives. We suggest
that you only purchase and use Retail labeled drives. Retail
drives carry the retail manufacturer's warranty, 3 to 5 years, with all
the contractual support that the warranty provides. OEM drives were
originally manufactured under contract for one of the many major manufacturers
of computers and or servers. OEM drives often do not carry a warranty from
the drive
manufacturer nor from
the
OEM buyer.
Instead they are sold
to resellers 'as is' and any warranty is provided by the reseller. Worse
yet, these drives may have custom firmware as specified by the OEM. We frequently
see customers with OEM market drives have compatibility problems in desktop
usage. There is just no way to know what you are getting when you purchase
OEM drives and warranty coverage is hit or miss depending on the source.
The total randomness in behavior makes it very difficult to diagnose and
maintain your storage array. Data transfer problems, mounting failures and
total drive failures are common
when OEM
drives are used. MacGurus ONLY sells Retail drives.
NOTE: Now that all that is said about OEM, Seagate has gone and made things
more complicated by shipping the 7200.11 Retail drives with OEM labels.
We have not been able to get
an answer from Seagate about why this is so, and also have been unable to
buy Seagate drives with Retail labels on them. The drives are Retail, with
5 year manufacturer warranty and standard firmware - every last one of
them say OEM on the drive though. The Seagate 7200.11 is the king of performance,
and we are going
to hang in there
and try and get Seagate to fix the labeling issues. The Seagate drives you
receive from MacGurus will always be Retail. Please forgive us for the confusion,
we've been more than a little excercised with Seagate over this.
Burly 4 Bay PM Enclosure
Includes:
- Assembled 4 Bay Enclosure
- Port Multiplier
- 4 Hotswap Bays, your choice of standard or LCD
- 1 Shielded External eSATA cable, your choice of 1 meter or 2 meter
picture shown with LCD hotswap bays
The enclosure has two 80mm cooling fans
300 watt power supply, 115-230 volt
Dimensions: 7"w x 15.3"d x 10.3"h
Burly 5 Bay PM Enclosure
Includes:
- Assembled 5 Bay Enclosure
- Port Multiplier
- 5 Hotswap Bays, your choice of standard or LCD
- 1 Shielded External eSATA cable, your choice of 1 meter or 2 meter
picture shown with Standard hotswap bays
The enclosure has two 80mm cooling fans
300 watt power supply, 115-230 volt
Dimensions: 7"w x 15.3"d x 10.3"h
Burly 8 Bay PM Enclosure
Includes:
- Assembled 8 Bay Enclosure
- 2 Port Multipliers
- 8 Hotswap Bays, your choice of standard or LCD
- 2 Shielded External eSATA cables, your choice of 1 meter or 2 meter
picture shown with Standard hotswap bays
The enclosure has three 80mm cooling fans
300 watt power supply, 115-230 volt
Dimensions: 7"w x 18"d x 17"h
Burly 8 Bay Rack Mount PM Enclosure
Includes:
- Assembled 8 Bay 4U Rack Enclosure
- 2 Port Multipliers
- 2 x 80 mm and 1 x 120 mm cooling fan
- 8 Hotswap Bays, your choice of standard or LCD
- 2 Shielded External eSATA cables, your choice of 1 meter or 2 meter
picture shown with Standard hotswap bays
The enclosure has two 80mm cooling fans
and one 120mm cooling fan
300 watt power supply, 115-230 volt
Dimensions: 19"w x 19.69"d x 6.96"h
 Spare Drive Trays
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