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 MacGurus Burly
Dual Port Multiplier Enclosure
Up to
6 TeraBytes in
One Enclosure!
 6
Drives, 2 port Multiplier cables and blazing SPEED. All in a very quiet,
powerful
package. The Dual PM Burly takes a 4 bay size enclosure and uses state of the
art tray system to mount 6 drives. With today's larger and faster drives
this means you can either have up to 3 TBs on 3 drives backed up in the same
box to
a second
set of 3 drives or you can use RAID0 and RAID all 6 for full speed uncompressed
1080p video editing.
The most rock solid enclosure on the market today. The Burly has
a massive 300 WATT power supply. With 4 monster 80 MM cooling fans we can leave
them at slower turning 2700 RPM speeds for very quiet operation. And the cooling
is as efficient as needed to maintain rock solid drive temperatures. 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?
Using a pair of 6 bay enclosures allows either a 12 drive RAID for
the beastliest - hair on fire - 2K Video editing speeds. Or more commonly, a
pair
of
matching 6 drive arrays with one tasked
as your backup. All supported off a single 4 port SATA host card.
Attaching the enclosure to your computer couldn’t be easier.
With an eSATA connector on the back for each port multiplier - you connect the
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 7200.11 or Hitachi SATAII Hard Drives
for
industry
leading
performance at bargain prices.
All components are SATAII capable.
Performance
 Todays
newest drives, especially the Seagate 7200.11, give us so much speed over even
drives from just last year that we are able to sustain 275+ MB/sec in a 6 drive
RAID0 all the way through the useful capacity of the array. Note the graph to
the left showing actual tests on a 2007 MacPro with 6 Seagate drives in a Disk
Uitlity software RAID0.
These
numbers allow real time editing of 1080 10 Bit uncompressed HD video. Requires
SATA Host
cards with sufficient bandwidth capability. Recommended - any of the 4 port
cards from Lycom, Sonnet or CalDigit since they have the chipsets and bandwidth
to support these kinds of performance numbers.
Performance from individual non-RAID drives is in the 100 MB/sec
range, empty, per drive.
Enclosure Features and Specifications:
| Solid handled skeleton drive trays. Very fast and easy drive swapping.
Simple 4 screw drive installation in trays. |
LED indicators for Drive access, power and fail as well as, fan
and temperature warning indicators.
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Trays are not compatible with other Burly enclosures.
Spare Trays available at bottom of page
- 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 Multipliers
- 2 internal 80MM cooling fans and 2 external 80 MM cooling fans
- Dimensions: 7"w x 15.3"d x 10.3"h
- Fully Assembled with data and power cables and hotswap trays
- Optional 1 meter or 2 meter external eSATA data cables
- Ships with or without drives
**see notes below **
PCI, PCI-X, PCIe, Cardbus
and Express34 cards available HERE
Burly Dual PM Enclosure
Includes:
- Assembled 6 Bay Hotswap Enclosure
- 2 x Port Multiplier
- 6 Drive Trays
- 2 Shielded External eSATA cable, your choice of 1 meter or 2 meter
The enclosure has four 80mm cooling fans
300 watt power supply, 115-230 volt
Dimensions: 7"w x 15.3"d x 10.3"h
Spare Drive Trays
**NOTES on Drives** Macgurus
uses Retail Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 or Hitachi Deskstar drives in all our enclosures.
These are the very best hard drives made for all desktop and workstation purposes,
especially in RAIDs. Server and Enterprise drives have feature sets designed
to
increase performance in large server environments and huge Enterprise RAID farms
-
these features will not improve performance and may degrade reliability
on desktop
systems.
All desktop host bus adapters are designed and tested to run with desktop drives.
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.
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