MacGurus Burly Hot Swap
         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

  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.

  

• Tray Options
• 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
• 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!)

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.

  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 a 3 year 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.

• 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 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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