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Hi guys. Been a long time since I posted here.

Anyway, can someone please point out if they know of a 4 or 5 ( 3.5-inch ) bay hdd enclosure. (preferably from a local store)
I MUST be able to switch each drive on individually. As such I'll use it in a JBOD way.

These guys from icydock would have been perfect if it wasn't for the lack of an individual power switch.
http://www.icydock.com/goods_cat.php?id=129

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SoulBlade wrote:I MUST be able to switch each drive on individually.
:?

I have this bad boy myself

I don't recall ever seeing an multple HDD enclosure with individual power switches tho... good luck!
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I was looking at that one myself. From what I hear on youtube people have a lot a of problems with it. (blown PCB, fried hdd's)
Are all hdd's spinning? What if you dont' need data from one? Hot swop it out? Or are you on RAID?

I have an those sata-to-usb cables and it's a friggen mission to swop between my 7 hdd's.
It can all go in my case but do I really want all 8 hdd's spinning when I only need one? Hence the need for a power switch.

If push comes to shove I can always get one where I can just remove the tray. Not ideal but ag ja.
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SoulBlade wrote:I was looking at that one myself. From what I hear on youtube people have a lot a of problems with it.
Haters gonna hate.
People do stupid shirt like run it with all 4 drives spinning while plugged into a USB2.0 port, use USB extender cables and all manner of other silly things...
Mine has been going strong for 6 months now - no sign of giving up and no problems, but of course, your mileage may vary
SoulBlade wrote:Are all hdd's spinning? What if you dont' need data from one? Hot swop it out? Or are you on RAID?
I only have 2 drives in there currently but have had 4 going at once.
Hot swap works fine altho getting the drives out of the bays is a bit of a mission without turning it off first and usually needs a small flat screwdriver or other such tool to help pry the bays open.
The HX4 doesn't do RAID natively and only an idiot would try and software RAID this thing.
No RAID isn't a problem for me.

If you want RAID/JBOS then you will want the HX4R which is around R400 more :idea:
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hamin_aus wrote:
SoulBlade wrote:I MUST be able to switch each drive on individually.
:?
I don't recall ever seeing an multple HDD enclosure with individual power switches tho... good luck!
Skip to round about 1:13. Just what I need. Now just to find the product page and a local supplier. Something tells me this might be a costly import nightmare.



EDIT:
Found the product page
Orico 6204ss
http://www.orico.com.cn/en/ProductInfo. ... 56&id=1573

Found another one
SNT SNT-SAC3141B
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817993016
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Don't think anyone locally will stock those and I cant find them listed in Aus either....

Looks like the exclusive domain of ebay drop-shippers. Probably direct from China. Still, if it's what you want and you have R1500 burning a hole in your pocket...
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Jamin. Is that you?
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Yes, it is I.
My name change was a troll attempt by the admins that I decided to own and never bothered get corrected :D
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hamin_aus wrote:Yes, it is I.
My name change was a troll attempt by the admins that I decided to own and never bothered get corrected :D
We're toying with changing it to lamb_in_nz
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Stuart wrote:
hamin_aus wrote:Yes, it is I.
My name change was a troll attempt by the admins that I decided to own and never bothered get corrected :D
We're toying with changing it to lamb_in_nz
And we all know what happens to lambs in nz...
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Jamin,this shop has it in Australia. Unfortunately sold out.
http://www.myshopping.com.au/ZM--122794 ... _Enclosure
http://www.dx.com/p/orico-6204ss-3-driv ... shoppingau

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Looks pretty good bro
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