By daimaou
Double HDD Rack eSATA and USB In Our Hands
When will they stop? This is HDD rack madness! A every month a new version from our favorite manufacturer, and most other companies are in the race now…
Between gadgets and performance will require making a choice… we’re still, for the time being, faithful to its precursor with the Black Box made for industrial use.
We have in our hands now the latest version with double HDD! So performance later changed nothing (apart from a USB where the flow is shared between the two HDD), since everyone has taken its e-sata (attention that your machine has also taken two external e-sata to use 2 discs simultaneously). Basically it’s like having two versions of the HDD Rack e-sata in one… nothing transcendent… they could provide a system of Raid to give a little more spice to the machine… it may be the case with a future version 3 HDD and Raid 5?
You can buy it on GeekStuff4u.com !
Attention… For those who keep their HDD rack on non-stop, the AC adapter gets hot and must be kept in a well ventilated area!
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Nice
Seems really KooL and pushing the original idea atleast, but doesn’t seem to be that clever when it needs to SATA connections for two drives.
Is there no-way of connecting more than one SATA to one connection or possibly have the whole thing run off FireWire or 1G/bit Ethernet with it’s own controller to have more than one drive.
So many other products do similar, such as 2 x 1Tb drives in a single box and giving 2Tb per unit via FireWire. Speed isn’t really an issue, as you would have 4 FAST HDD within your PC, such the OS on one, the a Temp drive, a Scratch and possibly a forth for all you games. This is how I’ve been configuring my lot and need more connections for those amazingly cheap 1Tb Samsung drives. We’re on our forth and not more connection on an Asus P5E3
All these random boxes and extenstions seem rather dull and not very power-saving friendly, if you get me!
What’s the performance? Read/Write?
If your host controller supports SATA port multiplication then you can connect upto 5 drives to 1 port.
can anyone tell me who makes these?
This one is made by Century Japan (http://jpcentury.com)