Thanks for all the suggestions - lots of good possibilities.
--Michael Brockington
Michael,
I bought 2 of these OWC 4-bay RAID enclosures in 2014, and tested them with a bunch of "Hitachi" (aka WD/HGST) 4TB 7200rpm drives. The good news is that they are well-built, reliable, and reasonably priced. The bad news is that they are *NOT* speed demons. When configured with a 2-drive RAID 0 stripe, they under-performed my other 2 tested RAID enclosures, an Akitio 2-bay box & a Hornettek 2-bay box, in both read & write throughput, as measured by AJA System Test as well as ATTO Disk Benchmark.
When configured with a 4-drive RAID 0 stripe, the OWC boxes still under-performed the competing 2-drive arrays according to AJA System Test, and slightly beat them as measured by ATTO Disk Benchmark.
I returned the OWC boxes and bought 8 of the Akito enclosures, which have run flawlessly for 2 years.
Cheers,Wilson Chao
On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Michael Brockington mbrock321@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
I'm looking for an inexpensive but reliable enclosure for a bunch of
individual drives. 5-6 bays would be good, but 4 is sufficient. JBOD
is all I need, so I'm not fussy about a RAID controller.
USB-3 is the interface I need right now, although if it had other
options as well, that would be better.
I have a MediaSonic ProBox 4-drive enclosure available, but it looks too
cheap and flakey to me, with lots of bad user feedback about random
disconnects and corruption of drives.
Other World Computing has one that looks a bit better:
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/M3QX2KIT0GB/
Any experience with these? Other favorites to recommend?
Thanks,
--Michael
Posted by: Michael Brockington <mbrock321@gmail.com>
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