MacGurus MultiDrive Burly
         Hotswap Firewire + USB2 Enclosure



      PERFECT for Time Machine!
      The 24/7 Backup Drive Solution

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For SATA Hard Drives - RAID or JBOD     

   Oxford 924 Bridge - 1394b - FW800
     For the Fastest Possible Performance - 800Mb/sec!

Firewire 800 + Firewire 400 + USB2 compatibility RAID0, RAID1 and Spanning

  MacGurus' Burly is the finest Firewire enclosure on the market today. No holds barred with the best cooling and power supply available. These enclosures are designed to outlive the heat death of the universe. No storage systems maintains drive temperatures and supplies a more stable power for greatest drive longevity. This is truly a 24 hour/7 days a week solution.

  This is the perfect backup solution when used with Time Machine, Apple's new backup system. Time Machine runs an incremental backup every hour, so you will need a storage enclosure that is not only capable of holding enough drives to meet your capacity requirements but also needs to be up and running 24 hours a day. The Burly Firewire enclosure is the right tool for that job. Plug it in, designate it as the Time Machine drive or drives, and leave it to do its thing. Couldn't be easier.

  Incorporating the best bridge board made today: the Oxford 924, it natively uses high speed SATA drives for best possible performance. Perfect for a Video or Audio RAID. Great for Photo libraries or backup storage. The 924 has built in RAID capabilities with Striped RAID0, Mirrored RAID1 and Spanning as available options via jumpers on the bridge. With SATA every drive is on an invidual channel giving the best capabilities for RAID performance.

   Note: Performace is superior using software RAID with OSX Disk Utility or Windows RAID Manager software and not the firmware RAID configured using the bridge RAID configurations.

  

Features:

• Oxford 924 Firewire 800 and USB2.0 Bridge board



• Uses High Speed SATA or SATAII Hard Drives



• Hotswap Trays and drives compatible with all MacGurus Burly SATA Enclosures
    -Drives and trays can be moved back and forth between enclosures without reformatting



• Complete with Firewire 400, Firewire 800 and USB2 cables



• Compatible with any computer with any Firewire or USB port



• Platform non-specific - Works with any OS


Notes about Hotswap: The Oxford 924 bridge that is used in these enclosures is the best performing and most trouble free bridge we have ever tested. It has one shortcoming at this time, it isn't fully hotswap capable when it has its full compliment of 2 drives attached. When physically removing one of the drives attached to the bridge, BOTH drives on that bridge should be dismounted first. Same procedure when inserting a drive, the other drive should be dismounted first. On insertion, both drives will remount. If this is not done, when you remove drive 2, drive 1 will dismount and mount, pretty near instantly. That isn't really a big deal unless the drive is being accessed. But it can certainly cause issue if an application is accessing it at the time. On a 4 bay, the top 2 drives are on one bridge, the bottom 2 drives on a different bridge. Oxford has promised a fix in the firmware in the future. It never crossed their minds that we would need that feature before. (engineers!)

Tray Options:

   Hotswap Drive Bays come in either Standard LED Trays with status lights, LCD Display version - and now a high end Trayless System with LED activity and power lights. Tray systems fully surround and protect the drives when out of the enclosure. Perfect for stacking archived drives on a shelf and extra trays are available at the bottom of this page.

  Standard Trays are simple and low key. Personally I like these no frills trays. Each tray has built in drive power and drive activity lights, so you know which drives are working and which aren't.

  LCD Display Trays for those who need some direct monitoring of drive status. The LCD display is pictured at right. It displays drive activity, drive temperature and fan operation for each drive. Also has audible overtemp and fan failure alarms.
   Note: LCD trays will not insert into 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.

  Trayless Hotswap Drive System! Very high quality trayless system that slips drives in and out seamlessly. Took us a while to find a trayless system that passed our testing with most of the ones we have seen not nearly robust enough. This one is, solid construction and attention paid to detail. Perfect for those wanting the fastest drive swaps possible with least amount of screwdriver time (basically none since you open the door, push the drive in and then close the door). The one downside to trayless systems is when you pull a drive you are handling a bare drive. You will need antistatic bags or other protected storage for drives when they are out of the enclosure.

Photos of Burly 5 bay with Trayless System and open door which slides drive out for easy access.
                       




  Installed Hard Drives from Seagate or Hitachi. You can get your Burly with or without hard drive installed. These are top of the line retail drives with either a 5 year (Seagate) or 3 year (Hitachi) warranty. We will have our technicians install and test any hard drive, either by selecting an enclosure with a hard drive here or by selecting any SATA hard drive from MacGurus SATA Hard Drive page.

Specifications: Supported Hard Drives: SATA or SATAII Bridge(s): Oxford 924 - SATA to Firewire 800/USB2 Power Supply:   2 Bay: 80 WATT 90-260 Volt   4 and 8 Bay: 300 WATT Switchable 90-260Volt Cooling:   2 Bay: 80MM case fan + 2 x 40MM drive fans   4Bay: 2 x 80MM case + 4 x 40MM drive   8Bay: 3 x 80MM case + 8 x 40MM drive System Requirements:   Macs with OS8 or later and Firewire or USB   PCs with open USB2 or Firewire 1 year warranty

Shipping contents: 2, 4 or 8 Bay FW/USB Enclosure with Drive Trays 6 ft. Firewire 800 cable 6 ft. 6 pin to 9 pin Firewire 400 cable 3 ft. USB2 cable 1 foot Firewire 800 Jumper Cable(s) Power Cable

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Burly 2 Bay Hotswap Firewire Enclosures

The enclosure has a single 80mm cooling fan
80 watt switching power supply, 90-260volt.
Dimensions: 7"w x 11.3"d x 6.5"h

Burly 2 Bay Hot Swap Firewire Enclosure		MGBurly2FWHS	$312.00
Select Bay Type Standard Bay LCD Bay [Add $43.00] Trayless Bays [Add $48.00]

Burly 2 Bay Hot Swap Firewire 1TB		MGBurly2FWHS1T	$515.00
Select Bay Type Standard Bay LCD Bay [Add $43.00] Trayless Bays [Add $48.00]
Includes 500GB Seagate 7200.11 drives

Burly 2 Bay Hot Swap Firewire 1.5TB		MGBurly2FWHS15T	$628.00
Select Bay Type Standard Bay LCD Bay [Add $43.00] Trayless Bays [Add $48.00]
Includes 750GB Seagate drives

Burly 2 Bay Hot Swap Firewire 2TB		MGBurly2FWHS2T	$786.00
Select Bay Type Standard Bay LCD Bay [Add $43.00] Trayless Bays [Add $48.00]
Includes 1TB Seagate 7200.11 drives

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Burly 4 Bay Hotswap Firewire Enclosures

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 4 Bay Hot Swap Firewire Enclosure		MGBurly4FWHS	$534.00
Select Bay Type Standard Bay LCD Bay [Add $86.00] Trayless Bay [Add $96.00]

Burly 4 Bay Hot Swap Firewire 2TB		MGBurly4FWHS2T	$941.00
Select Bay Type Standard Bay LCD Bay [Add $86.00] Trayless Bay [Add $96.00]
Includes 4 Seagate 500 GB hard drives

Burly 4 Bay Hot Swap Firewire 3TB		MGBurly4FWHS3T	$1167.00
Select Bay Type Standard Bay LCD Bay [Add $86.00] Trayless Bay [Add $96.00]
Includes 4 Seagate 750 GB hard drives

Burly 4 Bay Hot Swap Firewire 4TB		MGBurly4FWHS4T	$1483.00
Select Bay Type Standard Bay LCD Bay [Add $86.00] Trayless Bay [Add $96.00]
Includes 4 Seagate 1 TB hard drives

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Burly 8 Bay Hotswap Firewire Enclosures

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 Hot Swap Firewire Enclosure		MGBurly8FWHS	$975.00
Select Bay Type Standard Bay LCD Bay [Add $172.00] Trayless Bay [Add $192.00]

Burly 8 Bay Hot Swap Firewire Enclosure 4TB		MGBurly8FWHS4T	$1788.00
Select Bay Type Standard Bay LCD Bay [Add $172.00] Trayless Bay [Add $192.00]
Includes 8 Seagate 500 GB hard drives

Burly 8 Bay Hot Swap Firewire Enclosure 6TB		MGBurly8FWHS6T	$2240.00
Select Bay Type Standard Bay LCD Bay [Add $172.00] Trayless Bay [Add $192.00]
Includes 8 Seagate 750 GB hard drives

Burly 8 Bay Hot Swap Firewire Enclosure 8TB		MGBurly8FWHS8T	$2873.00
Select Bay Type Standard Bay LCD Bay [Add $172.00] Trayless Bay [Add $192.00]
Includes 8 Seagate 1 TB hard drives

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Accessories

Those superb gold standard Granite Digital Firewire cables to customize your system. These cables, far and away, are the best on the planet.

Extra Drive trays to match.
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.

6 Pin to 9 Pin 1394B 3ft GD1008 $37.95

6 Pin to 9 Pin 1394B 16ft GD1154 $69.95

9 pin to 9 pin 1394B 3ft GD4198 $43.65

9 Pin to 9 Pin 1394B 16ft GD5872 $85.45

Standard SATA Drive Tray BurlyHS-b-t $26.25 black standard tray only

LCD SATA Drive Tray BurlyHSLCD-b-t $42.00 black LCD tray only

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