MacGurus Burly Hot Swap
         Firewire + USB2 Enclosure

 

     
4, 5, 8 or 9 Drive Enclosures

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Any Capacity SATA Hard Drives  

 

   1394b - FW800

     For the Fastest Possible Performance - 800Mb/sec!

Now Shipping with 3TB Drives

Firewire 800    + Firewire 400    + USB2 compatibility   RAID0 or RAID1    or JBOD

  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 system maintains drive temperatures and supplies a more stable power for greatest drive longevity. This is truly a 24 hour/7 days a week solution.

  We are using a new JMicron Firewire/USB bridge that connects to an internal port multiplier board with up to 5 drives per rear panel Firewire connection. This gives us the capability to use any current capacity drive including 3 TB and 4 TB.

 8 and 9 bay enclosures have 2 Firewire bridges, both with external ports that are chained using a short Firewire cable.

   Note: Like most multi-drive Firewire enclosures it is recommended that when swapping drives you dismount all Firewire drives from your desktop, power the Burly down, swap whatever drives as needed, then power the Burly back up. This can prevent possible corruption to any active data transfer during a swap.

  

• Tray Options
• Features
• Hard Drives
• Specifications
• Shipping Contents

• JMicron Firewire 800 and USB2.0 Bridge board
  connected through an internal Silicon Image SATA Port Multiplier board - up to 5 drives per FW bridge
• Compatible with SATAI, SATAII or SATAIII Hard Drives of any capacity
• Hotswap Trays and drives cross compatible with similar tray types on all other Burlys
    -Drives and trays can be moved back and forth between enclosures without reformatting
• Complete with all required Firewire 800, USB2 and power cables
   For Firewire 400 use add a Firewire 400 to 800 cable available at bottom of page
• Compatible with any computer with any Firewire or USB port
• Platform non-specific - Works with any OS

Notes about Hotswap: Our recommendation with all multidrive Firewire storage is that when swapping drives all Firewire drives should be dismounted from the desktop, enclosure powered down, drives swapped, then enclosure powered back up. This provides the safest environment for your data and prevents potential unintentional dismounts of drives that are still actively transferring data.

Standard Trays are simple and low key. Personally I like these trays without bells and whistles. Each tray has built in drive power and drive activity lights, so you know which drives are working and which aren't. Drive tray fully surrounds drive when out of the Burly.
Trayless Bays - Use no drive trays at all. Slip your bare drive in and close the door. Simple system that works. Be aware, you are handling a bare drive when out of the bay. Antistatic drive boxes are recommended when drives are stored.
LCD Display Trays for those who need some direct monitoring of drive status. The display is pictured at right. It displays drive activity, drive temperature and fan operation for each drive. Also has audible overtemp and fan failure alarms.

 Hotswap trays protect your drives when out of the Burly by completely surrounding them in an aluminum box. You can label them, carry them with you, or stack them on a shelf.

Standard and LCD Drive Trays

Open Trayless Bay

Stackable Storage Boxes available below

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.

• Supported Hard Drives: SATAI, SATAII or SATAIII of any capacity
• Bridge: JMicron Firewire USB bridge through Silicon Image 3726 port multiplier to SATA drives
• Power Supply:
  
    300 WATT Switchable 90-260Volt
• Cooling:
   
    4Bay: 2 x 80MM case + 4 x 40MM drive
    5Bay: 2 x 80MM case + 5 x 40MM drive
    8Bay: 3 x 80MM case + 8 x 40MM drive
    9Bay: 3 x 80MM case + 9 x 40MM drive
• System Requirements:
    Macs with OS8 or later and Firewire or USB port
    PCs with open USB2 or Firewire port
• 1 year warranty

 

  Hard Drives

  You may select your Burly enclosure with or without installed hard drives. Either use the pulldown menu to choose what drives we install and test, or you can mix any combination of drives on our MacGurus SATA Hard Drive page and our techs will install and test those before packaging and shipping your Burly to you. We test every Burly and its drives before shipping.

  MacGurus' engineers are continually running tests on available model hard drives. We select drives based on compatibility for the widest range of uses, that have the best performance possible, and most important, are the most reliable. Data security comes first. Our purpose is to weed out and reject drives that have problems before they get into our customer's systems.

  At this time Seagate Barracuda and Hitachi Deskstar drives meet our demands best. That said, with Seagate having acquired Samsung's drive business and Western Digital now having purchased Hitachi's drive division, there really are only two manufacturers. No matter how many or few manufacturers, our selections will still be based on testing of individual models and not brand name. And always with reliability outweighing all other considerations.

  The Burly Firewire/USB enclosures will support use of most any SATAI, SATAII or SATAIII desktop drive. Many Enterprise or RAID drives will work fine as well, but are not often tested by us as they have features that usually are not intended to improve desktop computer drive performance. Enterprise and RAID drives are enhanced for server and multiuser environments and those features may conflict with desktop buses. We tend to avoid drives not designed specifically to meet the demands of desktop computing.

• 4, 5 8 or 9 Bay FW/USB Enclosure with Drive Trays
• 6 ft. Firewire 800 cable
• 3 ft. USB2 cable
• 8 and 9 bay include 1 foot Firewire 800 Jumper Cable
• Power Cable

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