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MacGurus MultiDrive Burly
Hotswap Firewire + USB2 Enclosure
PERFECT for Time Machine!
The
24/7 Backup Drive Solution
For SATA Hard Drives -
RAID or JBOD
Oxford 924 Bridge - 1394b - FW800
For the Fastest Possible Performance - 800Mb/sec!
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Firewire 800
+ Firewire 400
+ USB2 compatibility
RAID0, RAID1 and Spanning
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MacGurus' Burly is the finest Firewire
enclosure
on
the market today. No holds barred with the best cooling and power supply available.
These enclosures are designed to outlive the heat death of the universe. No
storage systems maintains drive temperatures and supplies a more stable power
for greatest
drive longevity. This is truly a 24 hour/7 days a week solution.
This is the perfect backup solution when used with Time
Machine,
Apple's new backup system.
Time Machine runs an incremental backup every hour, so you will need a storage
enclosure that is not only capable of holding enough drives to meet your capacity
requirements but also needs to be up and running 24 hours a day. The Burly
Firewire enclosure is the right tool for that job. Plug it in, designate it
as the Time Machine drive or drives, and leave it to do its thing. Couldn't
be easier.
Incorporating the best bridge board
made today: the Oxford 924, it natively uses high speed SATA drives for best
possible performance.
Perfect for a Video or Audio RAID. Great for Photo libraries or backup storage.
The 924 has built in RAID capabilities with Striped RAID0, Mirrored RAID1
and Spanning as available options via jumpers on the bridge. With SATA every
drive is
on an invidual channel giving the best capabilities for RAID performance.
Note: Performace is
superior
using software RAID with OSX Disk Utility or Windows RAID Manager software and
not the firmware RAID configured using the bridge RAID configurations.
Features:
- Oxford 924 Firewire 800 and USB2.0 Bridge board
- Uses High Speed SATA or SATAII Hard
Drives
- Hotswap Trays and drives compatible with all MacGurus
Burly SATA Enclosures
-Drives and trays can be moved back and forth between enclosures
without
reformatting
- Complete with Firewire 400, Firewire 800 and
USB2 cables
- Compatible with any computer with any Firewire or USB port
- Platform non-specific - Works with any OS
Notes about Hotswap: The Oxford 924 bridge that is used in these enclosures is the best
performing and most trouble free bridge we have ever tested. It has one shortcoming at this time,
it isn't fully hotswap capable when it has its full compliment of 2 drives attached. When physically removing
one of the drives attached to the bridge, BOTH drives on that bridge should be dismounted first. Same procedure when
inserting a drive, the other drive should be dismounted first. On insertion, both drives will remount.
If this is not done, when you remove drive 2, drive 1 will
dismount and mount, pretty near instantly. That isn't really a big deal unless the drive is being accessed. But it can
certainly cause issue if an application is accessing it at the time. On a 4 bay, the top 2 drives are on one bridge,
the bottom 2 drives on a different bridge. Oxford has promised a fix in the firmware in the future.
It never crossed their minds that we would need that feature before. (engineers!)
Options:
Hotswap Drive Trays come in either standard or
LCD versions. The LCDs not only satisfy the need for eye candy but have temperature
and fan monitoring
as well as audible alarms. Additional spare trays can be purchased at bottom
of page.
Note: LCD trays will not work in standard bays. The reverse does work, standard trays work perfectly in LCD bays. So if you have an LCD equipped enclosure
you can purchase additional LCD or standard trays. If you have a standard tray equipped enclosure you can only use standard trays.
Installed Hard Drives from Seagate or Hitachi. You
can get your Burly with or without hard drive installed. These are top of the
line retail drives with either a 5 year (Seagate) or 3 year (Hitachi) warranty.
We will have our technicians install and test
any hard drive, either by selecting an enclosure with a hard drive here or by
selecting any SATA hard drive from MacGurus
SATA Hard Drive page.
Specifications:
- Supported Hard Drives: SATA or SATAII
- Bridge(s): Oxford 924 - SATA to Firewire 800/USB2
- Power Supply:
2 Bay: 80 WATT 90-260 Volt
4 and 8 Bay: 300 WATT Switchable 90-260Volt
- Cooling:
2 Bay: 80MM case fan + 2 x 40MM drive fans
4Bay: 2 x 80MM case + 4 x 40MM drive
8Bay: 3 x 80MM case + 8 x 40MM drive
- System Requirements:
Macs with OS8 or later and Firewire or USB
PCs with open USB2 or Firewire
- 1 year warranty
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Shipping contents:
- 2, 4 or 8 Bay FW/USB Enclosure with Drive Trays
- 6 ft. Firewire 800 cable
- 6 ft. 6 pin to 9 pin Firewire 400 cable
- 3 ft. USB2 cable
- 1 foot Firewire 800 Jumper Cable(s)
- Power Cable
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Burly 2 Bay Hotswap Firewire Enclosures
The enclosure
has a single 80mm cooling fan
80 watt switching power supply,
90-260volt.
Dimensions: 7"w x 11.3"d x 6.5"h

Burly 4 Bay Hotswap Firewire Enclosures
The enclosure has two 80mm cooling fans
300 watt power supply,
115-230 volt
Dimensions: 7"w x 15.3"d x 10.3"h
Burly 8 Bay Hotswap Firewire Enclosures
The enclosure has three 80mm cooling fans
300 watt power supply,
115-230 volt
Dimensions: 7"w x 18"d x 17"h
Accessories
Those superb gold standard Granite
Digital Firewire
cables to customize your system. These cables, far and away, are the best
on the
planet.
Extra Drive trays to match.
Note: LCD trays will not work in standard bays. The reverse does work, standard trays work perfectly in LCD bays. So if you have an LCD equipped enclosure
you can purchase additional LCD or standard trays. If you have a standard tray equipped enclosure you can only use standard trays.
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