Burly Dual PM

  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 4.5 TBs on 3 drives backed up in the same box to a second set of 3 drives or you can RAID all 6 for 9 TB of 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. 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, 7200.12 or Hitachi SATAII Hard Drives for industry leading performance at bargain prices. All components are SATAII capable.

PERFORMANCE

  Todays newest drives give us so much speed over even drives from just last year that we are able to sustain 400+ MB/sec in a 6 drive RAID0 all the way through the useful capacity of the array. Note the graph to the right showing actual tests on a 2007 MacPro with 6 Seagate 7200.11 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. We recommend the Lycom PCIe and PCI-X 4 port cards since they have the chipsets and bandwidth to support these kinds of performance numbers.

Performance from individual non-RAID drives is in the 120-160 MB/sec range, empty, per drive.

ENCLOSURE FEATURES & SPECIFICATIONS

• Solid handled skeleton drive trays provide 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.
• 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: 7w x 15.3d x 10.3h
• Fully Assembled with data and power cables and hotswap trays
• 1 or 2 meter external eSATA data cables, both 1 and 2 meter are fully supported by SATAII specification
• Ships with or without drives
• FREE GROUND SHIPPING IN CONTINENTAL US - see below

COMPATIBLE PCI, PCI-X AND PCI EXPRESS CARDS AVAILABLE HERE .

  Burly Storage is currently offering FREE GROUND SHIPPING for any order that includes a Burly Port Multiplier Enclosure, 4 and 8 bay Burly Firewire Enclosure either Fixed Drive or Hot Swap. Retail customers only.

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