TowerRAID TR4X-BHA - 4 Bay SAS / SATA RAID 5 Storage Enclosure (Black)

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Price: $349.99    

Product Feature

• Complete RAID storage solutions, no extra componment needed.
• Supports four 3.5-inch SAS or SATA hard disk drives
• PCIe 4x controller allows the offload of RAID calculation to controller card.
• Supports RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 5 and JBOD.
• Easy to setup Web-browser interface.

Product Description

The TowerRAID TR4X-BHA is a 4-bay RAID storage tower with a single mini-SAS connection, delivering over 300MB/s in performance. With a bundled PCIe 4x controller card, the TR4X-BHA is a complete RAID solution providing high performance storage in mission-critical envirnoments. The TR4X-BHA could be easily setup and maintained via a built-in Web Browser interface. E-mail notification is supported when critical errors occur. Utilizing high bandwidth 1200MB/s mini-SAS (SFF-8088) cabling, the TR4X-BHA supports 3Gb/s SAS or SATA hard drives to deliver superior read / write speeds that are crucial in performance-driven environments such as video editing industry. The mini-SAS ports combine four hard drives connections into one, reducing possible points of failures, while preserving uninterrupted data transfer. The TR4X-BHA also supports SATA drives, allowing users the option to choose between high performance and high capacity storage solutions.

TowerRAID TR4X-BHA - 4 Bay SAS / SATA RAID 5 Storage Enclosure (Black) Review

So far, so good. I bought this unit to replace a small (2TB) western digital my book as I needed a lot more capacity for the documentary I'm currently producing. 12TB at RAID 5, is 9TB of online storage. The mini-SAS interface is a bit faster than my WD ESATA interface on my computer, anything helps, but to really speed things up I would have to get 2 towers running in parallel, striped raid 10 (1+0) to really increase the throughput. I can work with a lower resolution for editing as I do not have clients breathing down my neck to work faster. For my system, this tower is great, if you need higher throughput, get the 8 bay model with a dual mini-SAS card, costs more, but does more, fortunately I did not need the maximum speed, I needed performance for my $$ and this unit delivers.

I do not run 24/7, but do have it on 10 hours a day for most of the week.

I'm using Hitachi 3TB, 7200 rpm drives with this tower.

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