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MacGurus Burly SCSI Enclosures!
These are our favorite SCSI enclosures!
All-steel construction for durability and superior heat-dissipation, in a variety of designs for maximum flexibility.
Buy the enclosure you require for your exact application!
These enclosures include the beefiest power supplies on the market--a real requirement
for generating the extra torque needed to spin up multiple 10,000
rpm or even 15,000 rpm drives. The 2 Bay Burly ships with an 80 watt power
supply and both the 4 and 8 bay Burlys ship with a powerful 300 watt
power supply giving plenty of available headroom to maintain power levels for
any drives.
You may replace the included PVC flat ribbon cabling with Granite's
state-of-the-art cabling, listed below
in 68-pin Ultra3 LVD. For Ultra3, Ultra160, Ultra320 MacGurus recommends Granite
part number GD7031 for 2 drives, the GD2682 for 4 drives and the GD1005 for 8
drives
in Thermal
Plastic
Olefin
(TPO).
You're
wondering
whether
you
really, really need to use TPO cables? Perhaps not. But if you are
pushing the edge of the performance envelope,
and building a zero-tolerance system that will rip the pants right off you and work
right when the deadlines loom, you will appreciate our including pre-built TPO
cable pricing below. The way we see it, you only go around once, and there's
no point in hobbling 10k or 15K rpm Cheetahs with crappy cables. How much
is your data worth, anyway?
We like these enclosures for a number of reasons, but the primary reason is
because they work really well. You may be able to buy prettier enclosures, if
you
buy
more expensive pre-built units that skimp on internal components you can't
see, but there's no mystery to these enclosures, and installing Granite internal
TPO Ultra3 cables ensures that you will have nothing but the absolute best
in SCSI hardware on your desktop. The Granite cables are designed
to work with these enclosures, these enclosures are readily modifiable and
easily customized, and we have never found enclosures with superior power supplies
or better heat dissipation characteristics. Need enclosures that can handle
even multiple hot 15,000 rpm drives? There's no cheap plastic stuff in these
burly babies. With all-steel construction, and optional UltiMate Drive Cooler
with front fans,
these
enclosures are even perfect for use with the fastest drives on Earth, Seagate's
screaming family of
Cheetah drives.
These enclosures also excel in performance when paired with the Granite GD1515
Active
Terminators.
We think you'll like them, too.
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| 5.25" Burly2-ultra dual-bay
enclosure, 5.25" Burly4-ultra quad-bay enclosure,
5.25" Burly8-ultra 8-bay
enclosure. Right
hand picture of black and beige Burly4-ultra enclosures.
The beige enclosure has Ultimate
HD Coolers
installed without bezels (Ult Coolers no longer available). Click image for large
view
of
4
bay
enclosures. |
MacGurus Burly SCSI
Enclosures
The Burly 2 Bay Enclosures are 5.25-inch enclosures, and require
3.5-inch to 5.25-inch drive brackets to accommodate modern 3.5-inch drives, available
below. The Burly2-ultra includes 15-ID switches
and 68-pin internal PVC cabling. For top quality performance use of Granite
TPO Ultra320 cables is recommended. Granite part number GD6282 is appropriate
for a single drive, while part number GD7031 can handle two drives. The GD1515
is the correct Terminator for all enclosure cables.
The Burly2-ultra is appropriate for one or two drives. With todays cooler running
drives you can use the optional 3.5 inch to 5.25 inch bracket kits and
rely on the built in cooling fans.
The Burly 4 Bay Enclosures can handle either one or two buses,with
a total of four external connector ports on the backplane. Cabling for dual-bus
use,
order a pair of GD7031 pre-built cables and a pair of GD1515 Terminators. For
a
single
bus,
order
GD2682
four
drive
cable and one GD1515 Terminator.
The same paradigm applies as above: the Burly4-ultra includes 68-pin PVC internal
cabling and 15-ID switches (four of them, one per drive bay), Again, drive
brackets are required for 3.5-inch drives.
The Burly 8 Bay Enclosures can also handle dual buses. For eight internal 68 pin devices,
order the Burly8-ultra with one GD1005 TPO internal ribbon cable, listed below.
The maximum number of SCSI devices addressable on an LVD bus
is fifteen, including addresses 0 through 6 (7 is reserved for the host)8 through
15.
For dual internal 68-pin buses, order a pair of 4 drive GD2682 TPO cables. You
will need two GD1515 Terminators.
The Burly8-ultra has one beefy 300w power supply.
Like all other power supplies in
the Burly line,
these are switchable for either domestic US 120v or overseas 230v power sources.
These all-steel Burly Enclosures are quite heavy. We recommend planning ahead, and shipping
them via UPS Ground whenever possible purely due to the cost of shipping heavy items.
They are extremely durable. You need not fear that they may not survive the journey to your desktop. You can stand on them, should you choose to do so.
SCSI Enclosure Mounting Brackets
for 5.25" Enclosures
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| Granite part GD7031, Two drive 68-pin TPO Cable
for MAP5021 |
Granite Digital SCSIVue GOLD Twisted
Pair Ultra3LVD Cables
are the finest cables on the planet. Capable of a full 320 MB/sec throughput,
these are
the perfect solution for the beastliest performance from your external
SCSI drives.The wire is silver plated, provides exactly 132 ohm differential
impedance. The perfect solution for Ultra 2, 3 (LVD) SCSI. These cables have
a 68-pin MicroD female backplane mount connector
on each end to connect to your external cable from the controller and either
a Terminator or a jumper cable to another enclosure. The 68MD female connectors
have 6” of cable
between them.
Guaranteed by Granite
for life, these cable receive our highest recommendation.
This line of enclosures falls into the category of good, solid, reliable hardware that works.
Warranted for one year.
The Gurus Certify
These Enclosures Rule
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