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Dual Bay Drive Enclosure Recommendation Needed?
#1
Running out of storage space on my 2 bay Synology NAS. Here are the requirements:

Dual Bay
USB, Firewire and eStata connectivity
Low Price but good quality
Smallish form factor preferred
Has to handle 2tb drives

ANy recommendations?
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#2
Define "low price"?

$110 is about average

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/enclosure..._RAID_Quad
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#3
Under $100. I could probably do without firewire to drop cost.
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#4
If you just want USB 2, you could find single bay cases for $10 at newegg. are you sure you want/NEED eSATA?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLis...Submit=ENE&N=100007705+600006254&QksAutoSuggestion=&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&Configurator=&IsNodeId=1&Subcategory=92&description=&Ntk=&CFG=&SpeTabStoreType=&srchInDesc=DUAL
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#5
jdc wrote:
If you just want USB 2, you could find single bay cases for $10 at newegg. are you sure you want/NEED eSATA?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLis...Submit=ENE&N=100007705+600006254&QksAutoSuggestion=&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&Configurator=&IsNodeId=1&Subcategory=92&description=&Ntk=&CFG=&SpeTabStoreType=&srchInDesc=DUAL

Yeah, I need eSata for speed, and i prefer a dual bay as I dont want to keep adding enclosures as the setup is fairly visible and looks like crap to begin with.
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#6
If you have to have eSata, just go ahead and buy a 5 bay port multiplying enclosure for @ $200 and be done with it.
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#7
Trouble wrote:
If you have to have eSata, just go ahead and buy a 5 bay port multiplying enclosure for @ $200 and be done with it.

Any recommendations on one of these? That actually might be a good way to go for me.
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#8
heres a 4 bay for $110

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/SKUSearch_v3.asp?px=DN&scriteria=BA25291
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#9
if you can scrape up the cash and convince yourself, you might also consider a readynas. the older nv+ models go for about $250. you're reading speed for reliability and expandability. the nvx is more than twice the price but speedy speedy.
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#10
I already have a Synology 207+ NAS. If I was going to get another NAS, it would be another Synology. Reall happy with this one.
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