MacGurus Burly Fixed Drive
         Firewire + USB2 Enclosure

     
PERFECT for Time Machine!
      The 24/7 Backup Drive Solution

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For SATA Hard Drives - RAID or JBOD    

   Oxford 924 Bridge - 1394b - FW800

     For the Fastest Possible Performance - 800Mb/sec!

Firewire 800    + Firewire 400    + USB2 compatibility   RAID0, RAID1 and Spanning

  The finest Firewire Enclosure you can get. A rock solid steel enclosure with a mongo power supply and superb cooling. All at a low price.

  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 individual channel giving the best capabilities for RAID performance.

  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.

   Typically you should plan the capacity of a Time Machine backup volume to be a lot bigger than the storage volumes it is backing up. This is because Time Machine keeps a running record of everything going back in time. The more storage your backup volume has the further back Time Machine can maintain. As you run out of backup space, Time Machine will delete older files to make room for new.

   Note: Performance 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
• Hard Drives
• Specifications
• Shipping Contents

• Oxford 924 Firewire 800 and USB2.0 Bridge board
  2 SATAII drives per bridge
• Uses High Speed SATA or SATAII Hard Drives
• Fixed Drive Brackets, see picture at right
• 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

  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 or drives from MacGurus SATA Hard Drive page.

• Supported Hard Drives: SATA or SATAII
• Bridge: 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

• 2, 4 or 8 Bay FW/USB Enclosure with fixed Drive Brackets
• 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)
• SATA Power Adapters to convert to SATA power when needed
• Power Cable

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