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FirmTek SeriTek/2eEN4 eSATA Four Bay Enclosure
A review of the FirmTek SeriTek/2eEN4 with heavy duty four drive usage
FirmTek is shipping the SeriTek/2eEN4 Four-Bay Hot-Swap External eSATA Serial ATA Enclosure ($499.95). This enclosure features a well built case made from brushed & anodized extruded aluminum. The enclosure is 6.25" wide, 7.25" high and 9.25" deep. It weighs 9 pounds empty. Install four 3.5" SATA hard drives into the SeriTek/2eEN4 enclosure and it will weigh approximately 16 pounds. The SeriTek/2eEN4 enclosure has a built-in high quality server-class 150 watt universal power supply, two 60x60x10mm quiet hard drive cooling fans, plus an LED indicator and a mute-able audible alarm. The mutable alarm will sound if a fan stops spinning or spins at very low RPM or if the drive temperature reaches 55C (131 degrees Fahrenheit). The SeriTek/2eEN4 enclosure is compatible with virtually every external Serial ATA host adapter on the market and it supports data transfer rates of up to 300MBytes/sec per drive. The SeriTek/2eEN4 is designed to be utilized for uncompressed high-definition digital video editing, computer animation, digital photography or any use where a hot swap four bay SATA hard drive station would be useful.
System Requirements
Macintosh, Windows or Linux computers.
Requires external shielded SATA ports.
Requires up to four external SATA 3.5" hard drives.
Backward compatible with SATA-1 to eSATA cables.
The SeriTek/2eEN4 provides an awesome four bay hot swap enclosure for adding external SATA hard drives to any PowerMac with an empty PCI slot. When used with a SeriTek/1eVE4 host adapter you will have eSATA connections on both the enclosure and the host adapter, hot swap capability, the ability to boot from the enclosure and deep sleep compatibility. The SeriTek/2eEN4 enclosure provides a quiet, rock solid solution for housing a RAID or mounting individual SATA hard drives. If you are tired of the loud fan noise that comes with some four bay enclosures you will definitely what to try the SeriTek/2eEN4 enclosure. You may also want to check out the article at barefeats.com which shows how the SeriTek/2eEN4 performs when used with four to eight hard drive RAID sets from various manufacturers.
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Contact Information:
FirmTek, LLC
29300 Kohoutek Way #120
Union City, CA 94587 USA
510.675.9800
sales@firmtek.com
http://www.firmtek.com
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