Very versatile hard drive enclosure holding two drives (can be combined to one virtual drive) and one-touch back-up – Joe
SUMMARY: Very versatile hard drive enclosure holding two drives (can be combined to one virtual drive) and one-touch back-up.
The good guys at Eagle Tech Computers were nice enough to send a sample of their Eagle Consus I-Series External Dual SATA Enclosure. This enclosure is different from many others in that it can hold two drives and in addition combine the two into one virtual drive.
Key Features:
- Holds two hard drives up to 2 TB (2 x 1 TB)
- JBOD¹: Automatically combines two hard drives of different capacities into one virtual drive without redundancy
- One-Touch back-up capability
- Internal SATA, external USB 2.0
- Active cooling with 60 mm “smart” fan
- External Universal Switching Power Adapter (5V/12V 2.0A)
- Contents include Manual, Software CD, USB Cable, external power supply
- Size: 8.75” x 5” x 3.15”
The interesting feature of this enclosure is the ability to combine hard drives using JBOD (“Just a Bunch Of Disks”). This allows two or more physical drives (can be of unequal size) to create one logical drive. Disks are chained together, end to beginning, so they appear as a single large disk. JBOD is similar to RAID but it is NOT a RAID function – the drives are not striped. JBOD is done automatically when a second drive is added to the enclosure.
The back shows the USB and power ports and the button used to actuate the back-up function:
The orange faceplate is easily removable – just pulls out for the “industrial” look:
Don’t like the orange faceplate? It comes with a second, more sedate gray faceplate:
Remove four small screws from the bottom and the carrier slides out of the enclosure:
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