12/14/2011

4.0TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 4 Bay eSATA,FireWire 800+USB 2.0 Enterprise Hardware Desktop RAID Review

4.0TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 4 Bay eSATA,FireWire 800+USB 2.0 Enterprise Hardware Desktop RAID
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I have recently received this item and am currently waiting for 4 2TB drives to arrive to load it up.

EDITI installed the 2 TB drives - again no problem and am in the process of copying over about 1.5TB of data.

In the meantime I put 3 500MB drives in that I have laying around and set it up as Raid 5.Set up was a breeze and the unit was ready for data within minutes.
I connected it with the firewire 800 interface.

I copied over about 300 megs of music and photos and the typical copy speed was around 30 meg/s.

Subsequent read speeds were a little higher as was to be expected.

I have just artificially caused and error my removing one drive.Within a minute or so the alarm sounded to alert me to the failure.The data was still intact and available.I replaced the drive and the raid in now rebuilding.

EDIT - It took about 45 minutes or so to rebuild the RAID with about 300 meg of data.

The unit construction is very solid and has a nice look and feel - all metal - no plastic.

When I first powered it up the fans were running very loudly, but in a minute or so they stabilized and the unit is very quiet - about the same noise as my Imac.

Overall I am very satisfied and if it continues this way the I will purchase another unit.

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Product Description:
4.0TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 eSATA,FireWire 800+USB 2.0 1U 4-Bay Enterprise SATA Desktop RAID Solution with selectable RAID 0,1,5,10 Hardware RAID Mode, NRAID Span Options. Oxford 936 chipset, 5 Year Warranty.

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