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| Fusion D500P E-series Sata 5BAY Enclosure with cables Trays No Drives |
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List Price: $0.00
Our Price: $473.87
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: SONNET TECHNOLOGIES
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Sonnet Technologies
EAN: 0732311005657
Feature: Sold Individually
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Label: SONNET TECHNOLOGIES
Manufacturer: SONNET TECHNOLOGIES
Model: FUS-D5P-00TB
Publisher: SONNET TECHNOLOGIES
Studio: SONNET TECHNOLOGIES
Warranty: 2 years warranty
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Editorial Reviews:
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Looking for desktop, 5-drive, removable storage system to expand with your needs? Sonnet's Fusion D500P E-series offers the same great features as the Fusion D500P but without the hard drives for customer configuration. Performance, capacity, and RAID reliability is dependent on drive choice.Today's digital content creation and editing require more speed and space than anybody would have imagined just a few, short years ago - now, storage needs are spoken of in terabytes instead of gigabytes. FireWire drives used to be the storage solution of choice for users on a limited budget, but they don't offer enough performance for all but the most basic needs, and high-end SCSI storage systems are out of reach for most people. You probably need something in between - Sonnet's Fusion D500P SATA storage systems offer speed, versatility, and reliability in a compact package - they are a great solution for anyone looking for an affordable storage system that will fit into a variety of workflows.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Sent back for return
Comment: bought this based on AMUG review. Returned quickly due to:
1) Drives being dropped, array rebuilt twice already in 3 days due to this. I have RAID/enterprise drives (WD 1TB drives) but still being dropped. Unstable.
2) Noise. Reviews had said this is quiet. I don't find it so at all. The rear fan is fairly quiet, but what you don't see is that it has a tiny internal fan for the power supply and that is very LOUD. I have this behind my desk, my Mac Pro with 4 HD is beneath my desk. I can barely hear my mac pro, this thing is WAY louder.
It's a nice looking piece of hardware, and maybe just doesn't do well with WD drives, but the noise issue is a dealbreaker even if the stability were better. For my use, I need rock solid stability, and this enclosure doesn't have it unfortunately.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Comment: I use these at several client locations in my IT business. I love them and find them very reliable, provided that Enterprise/RAID level drives are used and not desktop grade drives. Sonnet specifies on the product page on their web site that desktop grade drives won't work with this enclosure. If you're using a case like this, it is likely you're setting up a RAID and Enterprise/RAID class drives are the appropriate choice. It doesn't make sense to me to use desktop grade drives in a RAID system ayway.
There are other brands that I have not tried that I have heard are excellent too. DAT Optic, Norco and HighPoint are among them. I haven't stuck my neck out and tried them because I have so much success with the Sonnet enclosure. If it ain't broke - don't fix it!
Regardless of enclosure brand, I wouldn't think of using desktop grade drives to set up a RAID.
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Summary: This case is beautiful, but BEWARE
Comment: This is a beautiful enclosure, the best looking. I got caught up in the looks, and then after buying 4 of these, it became all to clear that they were all plagued with crashing and loosing volumes, and some times data all together. I really wanted them to work, even called tech support and basically found that they were only intended for 4 drives not 5, and they were buggy with 5 drives. I eventually sold or returned all the enclosures and used ugly cheaper enclosures from Ebay. My other products from Sonnet were as described, functioned, just these were not for me.
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