The CalDigit S2VR Duo RAID Enclosure

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The CalDigit S2VR Duo RAID Enclosure

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pschmid

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10-30-2006 at 12:45:44 PM

Does this external RAID enclosure offer the speed and convenience you're looking for?

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JeffD

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10-30-2006 at 02:54:09 PM

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I would consider this if it had room for 3 or 4 drives and supported Raid 5.

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enewmen

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10-30-2006 at 06:53:50 PM

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RAID 5 ang USB 2.0 will make this much more useful.

FireWire2

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10-30-2006 at 11:27:50 PM

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Actually there is qBOX series from DATOptic which offers:

Four SATAI/SATAII drives offer RAID 0, 1, 5 or JBOD
http://www.datoptic.com/cgi-bin/we [...] detail=yes
http://www.datoptic.com/cgi-bin/we [...] detail=yes
http://www.datoptic.com/cgi-bin/we [...] detail=yes

I believe they are working on a four drive USB2.0 model

For two drives they have ezRAID - it's a selectable hardware RAID enclosure (mirror, stripe, span, JBOD) by push of a button
http://www.datoptic.com/cgi-bin/we [...] detail=yes

mpjesse

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10-31-2006 at 06:23:41 AM

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3 things:

1. What speed of PCI-E does it use? 16x? 8x? I couldn't tell from the picture. This is obviously an important question if one has just 1 PCI-E 16x slot.

2. What's the pricing?

3. Disappointed w/ the lack of RAID5 capability. Would it really be that difficult/expensive to add room for one more drive? RAID 5 is ever so popular these days. Most of the folks I know doing video editing are using RAID 5 as opposed to RAID 1.

Luscious

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10-31-2006 at 02:01:49 PM

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I've been looking into this:

http://www.addonics.com/products/raid_system/ast4.asp

Fits upto six drives and works with sata/usb/firewire.

Not sure if it does raid5 though...

EDIT: this one will do raid5!

Windaria

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11-01-2006 at 03:50:55 PM

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Actually, if someone has just one PCI-E 16X slot, then 16X, 8X, etc is irrelevant, as that card would use up their only slot. That said, from looking at their website it is a 4x card. Now, I don't think that you would have to use the included card, since it is just an eSATA card... if you had a standard PCI one (if they make them, don't know since I have never looked into eSATA before) that should work fine.

Would have been nice if that detail was included though.

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