billb Veteran Member


Joined: 18 Jan 2009 Posts: 1311 Location: USA
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:45 pm Post subject: 4-Bay External HD Bootable RAID Enclosure |
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It looks like THIS Addionics PM (Port Multiplier)
will create an external RAID Enclosure that is
bootable via eSTATA or USB even when using
it as a RAID box that holds 2 or 4 Hard drives.
HERE'S the enclosure. HERE are the RAID types
supported: RAID 5+S, RAID 3, RAID 0 w/2 Drives Striped,
RAID 0 w/4 Drives Striped, RAID 1 w/2 Drives, BIG2 w/
2 Drive Concatenation, BIG4 w/ 4 Drives Concatenation
and my favorite RAID 10 (Mirrored-Striped).
And last but not least, an inexpensive
eSATA to USB 3 adapter.
The enclosure with PM is under $200 (USA) and
with the eSATA to USB 3 adapter its a little over
$200 total. Looks like affordable and somewhat
future proof.
Philip, I value your opinion!!!!! What do you think? _________________ 2011 Mac mini 2.7 GHz i7 with
16GB RAM, Samsung 512GB SSD
MacBook AIR 11 Inch
Mac mini, Model 1.1, 2.33 GHz C2D Proc
20" iMac G4 PPC |
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