Sans Digital TowerRAID TR5M1 5 Bay Storage Enclosure

Sans Digital Updated: 2009-01-06 RSS
Sans Digital TowerRAID TR5M1 5 Bay Storage Enclosure

The TowerRAID TR5M1 is a 5-bay storage enclosures for high capacity storage needs. With built-in ventilating protective screen front panel, the units utilizes cable-less backplane design to support up to five hard drives. Hard drives are installed on easy access hard drive trays for simple insertion and removal. Hard drive cooling is provided by a large 4.7" cooling fan located on the back of the unit. The TR5M1 is a compact RAID tower that uses only one cable to access five SATA drives utilizing the latest SATA II port multiplier technology. Using the bundled 2-port eSATA PCIe adapter, the user could easily access five hard drives via JBOD mode, or RAID 0, 1, 1+0 and 5 with spare.

Features

* Five 3.5-inch SATA hard disk drives to a single eSATA Port Multiplier interface.
* Accesses five hard drives using only one cable.
* Supports JBOD, Spanning, RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 5 with spare via software utilities.
* Cable-less backplane design supporting hot-swappable SATA I and SATA II.
* 2-port eSATA PCIe HBA included, to connect up to two units for a maximum of 10 HDDs.
* Support PC, MAC and Linux. (Please note that the host adapter card is based on Silicon Image chipset, which currently only support up to MAC OS 10.5.1 by Silicon Image.)

Specifications

Model: TR5M1
Form Factor: Compact Tower
HDD Trays: 5 Hot-Swappable 3.5"
RAID Level: RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 5, 5+spare, spanning and JBOD
(using bundled utilities)
Maximum Capacity: 5TB
Auto Rebuilding: N/A
Hot-Spare: N/A
Host Interface & Transfer Rate: eSATA 3Gbps (via Port Multiplier)
Drive Interface: 5 x 3.5" SATA I / SATA II
Cooling Fan: 4.7" Ball Bearing Fan
Power Supply: 220W (103V-253V)
Control Interface: N/A
Status Indicators: Status and Power LEDs
Dimension (in): 6.0"W x 8.25"H x 11.0"D
Weight (lb): 9.3
Safety Regulations: CE, FCC, UL, RoHS
Limited Watrranty: 1 Years