OT: JBOD for MacPro Tube?

[John Rofrano]

[Herb Sevush] “I know I’m just dreaming, but wouldn’t it be nice if you could put those drives INSIDE the base computer. Wow, what a great idea, no cables at all, no ports used up, no separate power supply or cooling fans to deal with — I wonder why Apple never thought of that.”

Yea, that would be a great idea but I’ll bet the computer case would have to be significantly larger like the size of a suitcase or a small refrigerator …hey, what if they put the computer in a small refrigerator and then it could hold all of your hard drives AND keep your beer cold! I’ll drink to that! 😉

~jr

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[Craig Seeman]

But I can move an external drive bay away from my computer to some extent and I can easily move the entire Bay to my laptop if needed. I like the modular approach.

My only wish would be a way to cool drives without all the fan noise.

[S Regian]

I have 2 of these. One raid 5 and 1 JBOD. Work just peachy and fast with the new Mac Pro tube.

https://www.datoptic.com/ec/thunderbolt-esata-usb3-0-hardware-raid-jbod-driverless.html

[Craig Seeman]

Interesting. I had just discovered this today which seems to be another variation. $729 for two Thunderbolt ports empty bay.
https://www.datoptic.com/ec/dual-thunderbolt-raid-with-5x-sata-bay-for-mac-and-windows.html

How long have you had it? Any reliability issues? Fan noise level?

[S Regian]

I’ve only had it for a few days and I haven’t worked it hard but seems very quiet. The box is quite a bit larger than it looks as the connections are connector wired from the drive tray to the controller but other than that seems to work well. I like not having to screw the drives to a tray.

Instructions are less than stellar but I figured them out.