OT: eSATA Enclosures

psg wrote on 1/17/2010, 4:15 PM
Kind of off topic, but this group always has great insight.

I'm looking for a disk enclosure that I can use to connect to my system using eSATA and support my collection of SATA drives that I use to archive videos. Specifically I'd like it to support 2-4 drives and preferably be "trayless". I just need to use the drives as JBOD, so I don't really need any RAID support.

Any suggestions on products or suppliers would be very welcome.

Thanks

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farss wrote on 1/17/2010, 5:35 PM
I *think* this kind of box gets a bit expensive / complicated as what you need is a port multiplier in the box. I'm assuming you want one eSATA connection from the PC that connects to a number of SATA disks in the box?
One on one is reasonably common by comparison.

Bob.
xberk wrote on 1/17/2010, 10:38 PM
I bought an Antec Easy Sata drive caddy to handle my extra SATA drives (of which I have many). $20.00 and works great. Best investment of 2009.

See previous post: Antec Easy Sata

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farss wrote on 1/17/2010, 11:00 PM
Just found this:

http://www.addonics.com/products/host_controller/ad5sahpm-ea.asp

Addonics make heaps of cards and boxes, probably find exactly what you're after from them.

Bob.
Grazie wrote on 1/18/2010, 12:06 AM
Thanks to our John Cline here I looked at these options for my archiving too. Settled on the Addonics SATAII Card giving me an extra 3 SATAII internals PLUS an external eSATA. Used in conjunction with their SATAII Drive bay - marvellous stuff! It just works.

If I do have a need for an eSATA external I've got it too. The whole thing came in under £80squids!

AESNAPMRSAW £28.80 (Snap-In Mobile Rack for 3.5" SATA Hdd with SATA interface Beige)

ADSA3R5-E £49.44 (1 eSATA / 3 SATA II RAID5/JBOD PCI controller Supports SATAI and SATAII disk speeds upto 3GB/s)

Addonics just know what us video chappies want and have a range of devices perfectly suited, well at least for me. I now archive and edit amongst 4x500gbs and 2x350gb backup drives. I'm not doing RAID, but if I want the JBOD option then the eSATA connection is there too.

Grazie

wwaag wrote on 1/18/2010, 8:47 AM
I use this from Icy Dock.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994026

It mounts in 2 external drive slots and allows hot-swapping of 3 SATA hdd's. Makes disc-swapping easy.

I also use an Icy Dock external closure supporting both USB and eSATA which I have connected to a Western Digital TV media player.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817198011

Both of these units use the same mounting rack so I can easily remove an hdd from the computer, pop it into the external enclosure, and do an immediate playback from the media player. Not as convenient as a networked player, but still pretty quick.

wwaag

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psg wrote on 1/18/2010, 5:31 PM
Thanks to Bob, Wwaag, xberk, Grazie for the suggestions!

I'm going to start with either the Antec or IcyDock solutions for a single drive in my existing case. Seems like a reasonable, inexpensive solution for swapping out a single SATA drive.

The Addonics stuff looks nice and they have a great variety of configurations, so I going to look into that a little deeper.
Grazie wrote on 1/18/2010, 11:49 PM
My solution, with the swap-out, has a fan and it is a silent as the grave.

I now have 3 medium sized projects on the bubble going on one of my 4 500gb hard drives and love being able to jump so easily from project to project. Just knowing I have 3gb/sec flow is really reassuring too.

Anybody wanna buy a firewire array?

Grazie
Laurence wrote on 1/19/2010, 7:07 PM
How about this:

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=esata+dual+drive+dock&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1GGLL_en___US362&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=10505141576531084628&ei=DnNWS-WzG8yUtgeXhpW4BA&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=image&resnum=4&ved=0CBwQ8gIwAw#
24Peter wrote on 1/20/2010, 6:51 AM
Got one of these recently - works great!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153071
craftech wrote on 1/20/2010, 5:11 PM
I use this. It's so easy to just simply insert any SATA bare drive and transfer archive footage over to it from within Windows. Just give each drive a name.

John
farss wrote on 1/20/2010, 6:11 PM
Thing is the OP asks for a solution to connect several SATA HDDs to his PC.
Now if he doesn't want to connect several HDDs at once then there's a zillion solutions out there. If he does want to connect say 4x SATA HDDs to one eSATA port on his PC at the same time and as JBOD then it gets a tad more complex and expensive.

Bob.
craftech wrote on 1/21/2010, 5:34 AM
Thing is the OP asks for a solution to connect several SATA HDDs to his PC.
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That was his original request Bob, but he later seemed to change his mind by stating:

"I'm going to start with either the Antec or IcyDock solutions for a single drive in my existing case. Seems like a reasonable, inexpensive solution for swapping out a single SATA drive."

John
ChipGallo wrote on 1/21/2010, 11:44 AM
I am trying to retire some 500GB drives and move to 1TB or larger. I had used Coolgear in the past for external USB enclosures. They have single- and multi-drive enclosures here:

http://www.satagear.com/SATA_Multi_Drive_Cases.html

Problem is, a lot of their enclosures specify up to 750GB drive and it isn't clear that they will work with 1TB or larger. I will be e-mailing with my mobo and drive specs to get their recommendation for an eSATA connected enclosure.