Thunderbolt Multi-Drive caddy?

MDJCM · MDJCM #1 (**permalink**)

07-20-2011, 12:25 PM

Or am I just dreaming?

I want to put 6 drives in 1 caddy and manage them independently, don't need any of this RAID nonsense. Do even make Thunderbolt or Firewire versions of these?

Bob_Stan · Bob_Stan #2 (**permalink**)

07-20-2011, 03:11 PM

OWC sells a device into which you can hot plug any 3.5 or 2.5 hard drive with firewire, esata and usb connections, but it is one drive at a time and I don't know if that is what you are looking for.

Dysfunction · Dysfunction #3 (**permalink**)

07-21-2011, 01:41 AM

Wow, JBOD? I'm curious as to why. Even if you don't want redundancy striping across those disks would just make it one big disk. Not really fault tolerant, but...

If you want individual disks, you can always daisy chain btw.

MDJCM · MDJCM #4 (**permalink**)

07-21-2011, 04:33 AM

I know the type you're talking about, I have a USB version.

I have 2x 2TB USB external drives hooked up to my Mac Mini to hold 4TB of data, then I have another 2x 2TB bare SATA drives to back those up to using that SATA - USB adapter.

But I'm just thinking, considering all the naff tech products that make it out there, howcome no one has come up with an affordable 4-bay firewire enclosure? I just think its really untidy and annoying having to use 4 power supplies and 4 USB ports when I could use 1 4-bay enclosure, 1 power supply, and 1 Firewire or Thunderbolt port

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MDJCM #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Aug 27, 2009 Location: UK Posts: 185 Mac Specs: 2009 13" MBP with SSD	07-20-2011, 12:25 PM Or am I just dreaming? I want to put 6 drives in 1 caddy and manage them independently, don't need any of this RAID nonsense. Do even make Thunderbolt or Firewire versions of these?
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Bob_Stan #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Jun 17, 2011 Posts: 219 Mac Specs: iMac 27" 3.4 Ghz Quad Core,SSD,1TB,12GB memory. MBPro Quad Core 2.2Ghz 128GB SSD, 500GB HD, 8GB	07-20-2011, 03:11 PM OWC sells a device into which you can hot plug any 3.5 or 2.5 hard drive with firewire, esata and usb connections, but it is one drive at a time and I don't know if that is what you are looking for.
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MDJCM #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Aug 27, 2009 Location: UK Posts: 185 Mac Specs: 2009 13" MBP with SSD	07-21-2011, 04:33 AM I know the type you're talking about, I have a USB version. I have 2x 2TB USB external drives hooked up to my Mac Mini to hold 4TB of data, then I have another 2x 2TB bare SATA drives to back those up to using that SATA - USB adapter. But I'm just thinking, considering all the naff tech products that make it out there, howcome no one has come up with an affordable 4-bay firewire enclosure? I just think its really untidy and annoying having to use 4 power supplies and 4 USB ports when I could use 1 4-bay enclosure, 1 power supply, and 1 Firewire or Thunderbolt port
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