MacGurus Burly Fixed Drive
         Firewire + USB2 Enclosure

 

     
4, 5, 8 or 9 Drive Enclosures

---

 

Now Shipping with 3TB Drives

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

  The Fixed Drive Burly is the best choice for quiet, long term Firewire or USB storage where drives will not be swapped in and out much. This enclosure is designed to run 24/7 with no holds barred best power supply and ample cooling to maintain a perfect long term drive environment.

  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.

 If ordered without drives, all required parts will be included for installation of your drives. Drive brackets will need to be assembled to drives, then drives installed into enclosure. Power and data wires are then attached to the drives. Philips screwdriver required for drive installation or swap.

  

• 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
• 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

 

• 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 fans
    5Bay: 2 x 80MM case fans
    8Bay: 3 x 80MM case fans
    9Bay: 3 x 80MM case fans
• 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 brackets
• 6 ft. Firewire 800 cable
• 3 ft. USB2 cable
• 8 and 9 bay include 1 foot Firewire 800 Jumper Cable to chain bridges
• 6 ft Power Cable

The Gurus Certify These Burly Storage Enclosures Rule