9 Bay Enclosure connects with THREE eSATA data cables and must use a 4 port PM capable card. We highly recommend the Lycom PCI-X or Lycom PCIe card for best performance.

  AWESOME Performance and HUGE Capacities are easily yours for up to 600 MB/s per enclosure and current capacities of up to 13.5 TB. Capable of being formatted into individual (JBOD) mounted drives or in RAID arrays using utilities like OSX Disk Utility, SoftRAID or Windows Disk Management. This chassis is specifically configured for the high speed requirements of today’s uncompressed video formats and multi-stream environments.

  This is the finest built enclosure you can get to store your data! Burly Enclosures use the most robust power supply (300 WATT) on the market, great cooling with 3 huge incredibly quiet 80 mm fans. All steel construction, you can literally stand on them. No wimpy little box with the drives stacked one on top of the other and no airspace between them. These contain full size Hotswap Bays with solid aluminum trays protecting your drives and fully enclosing them even when removed from the enclosure. Every Bay has its own internal fan for the absolute best cooling you can get. 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?

   Attaching the enclosure to your computer couldn’t be easier. With three eSATA connectors on the back you connect the 1 or 2 meter long eSATA cables 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 or Hitachi SATA Hard Drives for industry leading performance at bargain prices. All performance benchmarking is done with the faster Retail version Seagate 7200.11 and 7200.12 drives which we highly recommend. All components are SATAII capable and meet all SATA-IO.org specifications.

ORDERING SUGGESTIONS

  We at Burly Storage strongly suggest that you order the defaulted 2 meter eSATA cable. It's 6'6" length allows you the room needed to move the enclosure around a little and lets you get it a little farther away from your computer. (The maximum cable length possible within the SATA Specification is 2 meters.)

  The LCD trays are a nice way to keep tabs on your drives but we find that after a while most customers never look at them. The LCD trays provide drive temperature, drive activity and fan activity readouts as well as an audible alarm if the drive fan should stop or the drive itself overheat. Standard Trays provide a LED for drive power and drive activity. For most applications the Standard Trays work perfectly but the LCDs are nice for keeping tabs on your drives. Personal choice prevails.

NEW Trayless option!

  The solution to many requests for a robust trayless enclosure has now been found. Burly Storage has been looking for that solution for some time and it's now available in the Burly Enclosure line. If you want your enclosure to include the trayless bays simply choose them in the "Bay Type" pull-down menu on any Burly Enclosure. CLICK HERE for a complete description and photos.

Please note, the 500 GB and smaller Seagate 7200.12 generation drives will not work with the trayless style bay. These drives are physically shorter and will not fit snugly in the drive opening. The 750 GB and larger drives have the correct frame size to fit these bays.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Must be attached to port multiplier capable host card or motherboard bus
• 300 WATT Switchable power supply 90 - 230 volt
• Three Sil-Image chipset Port Multipliers each capable of 200 MB/s+
• 9 Bay Enclosure comes with three eSATA cables and three Port Multipliers
• Fully Assembled with data and power cables and hotswap bays of your choice
• 1 meter or 2 meter external eSATA data cables, both fully supported by SATAII specification
• When ordered with drives the they will be installed, tested and formatted
• Works with Port Multiplier capable Host Cards ONLY
• Dimensions 7"W x 18"D x 17"H

  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.