4 Bay Icy Dock External Enclosure for 3.5" 3 TB Drives

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Hi, I would like to buy the 4 Bay Icy Dock external enclosure but first I have a bunch of questions about it. I would like to buy a 4-5 bay external enclosure that supports 3 TB Drives.

It's for 3.5" Sata Drives. I need 12 tb of storage space with the ability to add more storage space. I would buy two 4 bay Icy Dock external enclosures. Is the Icy Dock enclosure easy to setup? Do I just format the drives?

Does my computer need to support 3 TB? Do I need to buy anything for my 2 year old windows 7 computer or my 2 year old Mac Pro to get the enclosure to work?

Does the Icy Dock support mixing and matching of drives? I would like it to work with both my Mac and PC. I don't need a Raid setup.

The enclosure needs to have USB 2.0 or Firewire. Any other good 4-5 bay enclosures that you would recommend that supports 3 TB Drives?

Any info is greatly appreciated
 
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JBOD is JUST a BUNCH Of DRIVE, when connect you will see multiple drives.

But there are many manufactures, who very deceiving calls a SPAN / BIG (combine drives as ONE volume) as a JBOD.

I wont deal with those companies, to me they have no knowledge on raid, cuz they can not even differentiate a mode of a raid. lol

With span/big, then you can lost the data, and may need to do a recovery, but this process relative easy.

Where JBOD the remain drives data still intact.

Hope this answer your question
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Hi, please help, I want to make sure that I'm buying a good product. What do you guys think of the Quad Bay Icy Dock External Enclosure? Do I need to install the eSATA Port Multiplier in my PC if I want to use the eSATA connection? Does my PC have to support 3 TB drives for the enclosure to work? Is the Icy dock easy to set up? is it just plug and play or is there something else that I have to do to get it working? Anyone?
 
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I can be wrong, as far as I know there is NO manufacture that offers more than TWO drive JBOD mode in FireWire400/800

DATOptic has such box UF8-R5J

When you order, take the eSATA option so you would have five interfaces that support RAID and non RAID function FireWire400/800/eSATA/USB3.0/USB2.0

The website states it supports 3TB HDD
 
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I'm not sure cuz I do not have the exact model
Worst case, you need to buy a SiI3132 card with eSATA (eSATA_PCIe21) around 20's then you are done

For FireWire400/800 and USB2.0 there is nothing else required, just plug in you will see 15TB total with five 3.0TB drives.
 
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Yes you can, but most likely it sees ONE drive

It needs PM ware supported to see more than one drive

There are TWO type of eSATA host:
Simple eSATA - one to one - mainly from AMD, Nvida, Intel...
PM supported eSATA - able to see more than one drive via PM technology - mainly support by Silicon Image, Marvell chipset

There are some manufactures claim SPAN and BIG (combine all drives as a BIG drive) is JBOD

That is a total stupid and mislead

I though you're interested in FireWire host connection for MAC and PC
 
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Thanks. So if I bought the JBOD Enclosure then it would be looked at as one massive drive? so if one drive fails then I would lose all my data? Are there enclosures that would look at each drive individually and not one massive drive?
 
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JBOD is JUST a BUNCH Of DRIVE, when connect you will see multiple drives.

But there are many manufactures, who very deceiving calls a SPAN / BIG (combine drives as ONE volume) as a JBOD.

I wont deal with those companies, to me they have no knowledge on raid, cuz they can not even differentiate a mode of a raid. lol

With span/big, then you can lost the data, and may need to do a recovery, but this process relative easy.

Where JBOD the remain drives data still intact.

Hope this answer your question
 
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