Quietest external SATA enclosure.

[David Roth weiss]

Here’s a terrific and very thorough review on AMUG of a new one that gets 4 out of 5 in their ratings. It also compares it to the other leading 5-bay models, with prices etc.

https://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/datoptic/sboxp/

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

[Shane Ross]

I built this device:

https://lfhd.blogspot.com/2006/12/dark-tower-sata-raid.html

So darn quiet you can’t tell it is on. Quieter than my G5. And I just added a port multiplier board. Drawback? Not very easy to get the drives in and out of the thing.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Sean Oneil]

[Shane Ross] “I built this device:

https://lfhd.blogspot.com/2006/12/dark-tower-sata-raid.html

So darn quiet you can’t tell it is on. Quieter than my G5. And I just added a port multiplier board. Drawback? Not very easy to get the drives in and out of the thing.
“

That’s funny. One of our PCs here uses that same exact enclosure.

One of the things I did was use single-disk fanless SATA enclosures. Just don’t stack them on top of each other or else they’ll get too hot. Newegg has a bunch of them.

[Scott Davis]

I saw that Dat-Optix the other day. It looks really nice and I am seriously considering it. I’ve built a Burly Box enclosure form MacGurus for a friend. Worked great, but a little loud. The Sonnet box looks pretty good also.