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Diatech

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Hello,

I'm in the market for an external RAID enclosure. Swimming through the endless options and price ranges has gotten me a little overwhelmed. I am looking for a reliable, 5-bay enclosure with USB 3.0 and RAID 5 (4 active drives with a hot spare). I do not need a NAS, and I do not need any fancy features. I was also hoping to spend less than 200, but was looking for something that's good quality.

Does such an animal exist? Am I going to need to pay more? Let me know what your thoughts/recommendations are. This is going to be used for file storage on a home lab/domain/media server for general storage, with the occasional streaming to my TVs (DLNA - already setup/working/handled by the server this RAID box will be plugged into).

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Hi Diatech,

One of the best choices you can get in that price range is the Mobius 5-Bay for $250.00.

- FireWire 800, eSATA, USB 3.0 interfaces
- RAID 0 (Striping), RAID 1 (Mirroring), RAID 10, RAID 3, RAID 5, JBOD (independent disks) and Combine (Span)
- Trayless design provides a simple way of HDD removal and installation
- Airflow is maximized due to the high quality, quiet fans that exhaust air away from the internal HDDs
- 2 Year Warranty

http://oyendigital.com/hard-drives/store/3R5-EB3-M.html
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glamdringfh

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Hi Diatech,

One of the best choices you can get in that price range is the Mobius 5-Bay for $250.00.

- FireWire 800, eSATA, USB 3.0 interfaces
- RAID 0 (Striping), RAID 1 (Mirroring), RAID 10, RAID 3, RAID 5, JBOD (independent disks) and Combine (Span)
- Trayless design provides a simple way of HDD removal and installation
- Airflow is maximized due to the high quality, quiet fans that exhaust air away from the internal HDDs
- 2 Year Warranty

http://oyendigital.com/hard-drives/store/3R5-EB3-M.html
 
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Diatech

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Thanks glamdringfh,

This looks pretty solid. If there are no other recommendations, then this is what I'll go with.

As far as the company goes though, are they known/reputable? I'm always concerned about companies that I don't know. Not saying that Mobius falls into this category (because frankly I don't know them and have never heard of them before now), but I try to avoid companies with bad customer service like the plague.

Thanks,
Diatech



 
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glamdringfh

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No problem, and great question.

They are a relatively new company which is why you haven't heard of them. The company has a very good track record, and the 5-bay has sold so well that it currently isn't available on Amazon because they haven't been able to make enough to keep up with the demand. Their 2-bay is still available from Amazon, however.

Here are the reviews from Amazon for the 5-bay, they heavily support the enclosure as a quailty item:

http://www.amazon.com/Mobius-trade-5-Bay-FireWire-Enclosure/product-reviews/B00CH94GMK
 
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Diatech

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The only thing this seems to be missing (and this is just me being picky) is a self-diagnostic or failure warning indicator. In my case, that doesn't really matter because of the hot spare; I'll just need to take a peek at from time to time to make sure I still have fault tolerance in place :)

Other than that, I'm sold!

(unfortunately, all I have are 5x consumer drives, but I'll just replace 'em with NAS drives as they fail).

Thanks again glamdringfh!



 
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