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.

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. Click image for large view of 4 bay enclosures.

MacGurus Burly SCSI Enclosures

Burly Dual Bay 5.25 and 3.5 SCSI Enclosure Burly2-ultra $96.00 Beige with Ultra3 PVC oem cabling

Burly Quad Bay 5.25 and 3.5 SCSI Enclosure Burly4-ultra $160.00 Beige with 68 pin Ultra3 PVC oem cabling

Burly Quad Bay 5.25 and 3.5 SCSI Enclosure Burly4-ultra-b $214.50 SPECIAL ORDER ONLY - BLACK with 68 pin Ultra3 PVC oem cabling

Burly Eight Bay 5.25 and 3.5 SCSI Enclosure Burly8-ultra $285.00 Beige with Ultra3 PVC oem cabling Out of Stock until end of July

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 hot drives, assuming two Ultimate Drive Coolers are installed in the front bezel stations. The fan kits constitute a fan array which pulls a surprising amount of air into the enclosure, where it can be swept out over the drives by the beefy fan in the backplane. The windtunnel effect is very effective. With cooler running drives you can also 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. For hot drives, however, it is best to use four Ultimate Drive Coolers.

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.

White Ultimate Drive Cooler with 2 fans		Ultimate Drive Cooler with drive installed
Black Ultimate Drive Cooler with 2 fans Click for larger image	Click for larger image	Ultimate Drive Cooler with drive installed, bezel removed Click for larger image

SCSI Enclosure Accessories for 5.25" Enclosures

Ultimate Hard Drive Cooler UltimateHDCool $28.80 BEIGE with 2 fans (no need for bracket kits with these)

Ultimate Hard Drive Cooler UltimateHDCool-blk $28.80 BLACK with 2 fans (acts as 3.5 to 5.25 inch bracket)

Universal 3.5in to 5.25in drive bracket BI5-3-UNIV $3.29 Kit (order one per drive)

Ultimate Hard Drive Cooler

Our flagship unit is the Ultimate Hard Drive Cooler. This unit accepts 3.5-inch third-height drives, and adapts them to fit into ATX standard 5.25-inch drive bays.

They also fit in Apple computers like the Power Macintosh 9600, 8600, or G3 Minitower using the Kansas enclosure, assuming you are installing them into the 5.25-inch drive bays under the CD-ROM, but you cannot use the included plastic bezel. It's no real loss, as the bezel serves nothing but a cosmetic purpose (and not much of one, in our opinion), and the real guts of the Cooler are the dual 40x40x20mm fans, and the dual-layered heatsink.


The 4500 rpm fans in this unit have an impressive 50cfm airflow rating, and are whisper-quiet at 24dbA. Installation is rudimentary, requiring you to tighten four screws in the heatsink, position your drive in the unit, and secure it using the included screw set to the side-mounted drive brackets. You then release tension on the heatsink screws, settling the heatsink into close contact with the top of your drive. The assembled unit, including your drive, slides into an open drive bay, where you secure it in place to a drive tray or your chassis with the included screws.

Simple, yet very effective.

  The kit includes a pass-thru Molex Y-power connector, the Cooler unit itself, a screw set, and instructions. It is warranted for five years.

We'll say that again. (That's how good the fans in this kit are built and rated).

Warranted for five years.

These units also fit, and gorgeously so, in standard 5.25-inch drive enclosures like our own Burly Enclosures.

Note: MacGurus strongly recommends the use of as many Ultimate Drive Coolers as possible when building enclosures using Seagate Cheetah or Quantum Atlas drives. Simply consider how many bays your enclosure has, and then buy that many fans. This will not only present a nice cosmetic appearance--it will give you the optimum in cooling, creating a wind-tunnel effect within the enclosure, keeping those beastly drives nice and chilled.

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.

68 MicroD(f) -2 x 68MD(m) - 68 MicroD(f) GD7031 $84.55 2 Drive Cable for the MAP5021(x2 for 2 Channel MAP5041)

68 MicroDf -4 x 68MDm - 68 MicroDf GD2682 $141.55 4 Drive Cable for the MAP5041(x2 for 2 Channel MAP5081)

68 MicroDf -8 x 68MDm - 68 MicroDf GD1005 $198.00 8 Drive Cable for the MAP5081

68 Pin MicroD(ff) LVD Diagnostic Terminator GD1515 $47.45 LVD Diagnostic Internal or External Terminator with incl. gender changer

This line of enclosures falls into the category of good, solid, reliable hardware that works.

Warranted for one year.

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