Esata Multidrive Enclosure with Esata PCIe x1 Controller Card

HyperEscape · 10-25-2009, 10:19 PM

Hi All,

I am planning to buy a external e-sata dual drive enclosure with port multipluer which i intended to use in JBOD mode. (Individual drive letter access for both drives). Its from Sansdigital

http://www.sansdigital.com/towerraid/tr2utb.html

The esata controller with port multiplier support I am looking forward to is SYBA and is as follows :

http://www.syba.com/index.php?contro...on=Info&Id=626

The only thing which confuses me is that it is written that this controller support JBOD mode (for RAID version only). It is a bit confusing since the RAID version the enclosure supports is 0 and 1. And I even dont want to use it as in RAID configurations. I need a simple JBOD (which has multiple definitions, i.e, multiple disks concatenated or individual drive access via single connection).

Can someone please confirm that whether the card and would work together in perfect harmony.

Would be happy to hear from anyone who has done a similar setup.

Thanks.

Dogg · 10-29-2009, 01:51 PM

They are all listed like that as far as I know. You can get them with the card also, such as this one which is currently on sale: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816111057

10-25-2009, 10:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
HyperEscape Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 8 OS: Windows XP SP2	Esata Multidrive Enclosure with Esata PCIe x1 Controller Card Hi All, I am planning to buy a external e-sata dual drive enclosure with port multipluer which i intended to use in JBOD mode. (Individual drive letter access for both drives). Its from Sansdigital http://www.sansdigital.com/towerraid/tr2utb.html The esata controller with port multiplier support I am looking forward to is SYBA and is as follows : http://www.syba.com/index.php?contro...on=Info&Id=626 The only thing which confuses me is that it is written that this controller support JBOD mode (for RAID version only). It is a bit confusing since the RAID version the enclosure supports is 0 and 1. And I even dont want to use it as in RAID configurations. I need a simple JBOD (which has multiple definitions, i.e, multiple disks concatenated or individual drive access via single connection). Can someone please confirm that whether the card and would work together in perfect harmony. Would be happy to hear from anyone who has done a similar setup. Thanks.

10-29-2009, 01:51 PM	#2 (permalink)
Dogg Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: St Louis, MO Posts: 1,965 OS: XP sp3	Re: Esata Multidrive Enclosure with Esata PCIe x1 Controller Card They are all listed like that as far as I know. You can get them with the card also, such as this one which is currently on sale: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816111057 __________________ Google is your friend !