Product ReviewsSans Digital TowerRAID TR5UT-BP 5 Bay Drive Enclosure Hardware RAID 0/1/10/3/5 eSATA 6Gbps USB3.0
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 Rating: Review Date: 08/09/13 |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/03/13 |
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Simple to Setup Raid with Internal Port Multiplyer. Can hold up to five x 2 Tb Hdd's (Raid 5 with eight.7tb's anybody?). Usb 3. is nice to make it able to travel with you to buddys homes who don't presently use Esata. As soon as residence, you can Hook up esata for fairly impressive reads/writes Instructions leave a small bit to be desired but it's practically nothing a swift trial and error can't repair. Heavy with Data filled Drives in it. Somehow I really feel like I've bought the Turk...... hehe At the moment, I have 2 x 1.5 tb Green WD hdd's in this box along with 2 x 2tb Hitachi 7200rpm drives. I set the enclosure up for JBOD and away I went with data Migration. Getting about 61mb/s reads over my network and through my X58 I7 machine. Usb three. is superior, but often leaves you wanting just a bit a lot more speed. I've currently have three x 2tb hitachi's on the way to set up a Raid five. So Far, this six.54 tb JBOD is operating Fantastic. Got the PCIE card setup in my w2k3 server and it's operating great along side a Highpoint 2320 rocket raid card. Thanks once again Newegg! |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/17/13 |
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Appears fantastic, uncomplicated to setup, nicely-built enclosure. I am operating it connected to Ubuntu ten.ten. I extremely recommend this if you are searching for huge external storage! Slow create speeds when employing RAID-five. I have 5 2TB drives. When transferring large data, ɭGB the speed is about 27MB/s but will freeze just about every 8 seconds. I see there is activity in certain drives and I assume this is the parity facts getting written to the drives. Nevertheless it is quite annoying that it requires this lengthy to write information to it since it freezes so typically, then transfers for about 8 seconds, then freezes for 30 seconds, then continues, etc. I am guessing this is the problem with RAID-5. I have heard about the raid-five create functionality being seriously terrible.General this is a wonderful piece of hardware and I will recommend it. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/05/13 |
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Fast-220MB/sec on HD tuneSteady, True Raid 5 not just a port multiplierWarning buzzer on Rocket Raid sata adapter integratedLeft a subpar overview on the silver model I returnd, but this solution(silver or black) is essentially quite very good. Fan has a bit of a whirring sound, audible but not "nails on the chalkboard"Cant use your onboard SATA-I tried and its not stable. The directions for installation arent so hot. I really bougt the very same model in silver and replaced it RMA. Discovered out following trying the replacement on a new laptop was very same difficulties as ahead of, so I figured i was performing something incorrect. Turns out I was. To get this rockin its straightforward (in hindsight) but not straigt forward as one would consider. Im major on IT, and make sans all the time at function but wanted a little package at household and now that I have it installed properly its solid. The mystery to my trouble beneath.... OK, this unit does HW RAID all on its own-just set the dip switches for what you want, uncomplicated sufficient. Like I said, I figured why use their card (included) when I have esata I dont truly use built in. Effectively it doesnt perform nicely thats why. So I put the card in, Win 7 finds it ok every thing cool, except I cant see the array! I instaled the array mgt software program prior, and could see it fine on my onboard esata fine, just wasnt steady, with add in card nothing. With the 1500 drivers on the disc (almost exagerating) I chose the RAID driver for win7 x64. I had to uninstall the "windows found the very best driver" already installed to force the raid driver one particular. After that it hums along fine. One note is, do absolutely nothing in the blue Rocket raid bios that pops up as it doesnt look to want to access the unit/array correctly. Boot into windows and use the Array management tool it operates flawlessly that way... |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/04/12 |
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It looks decent.five Stars for Newegg taking it back for a complete refund I tried to use this device with raid edition WD difficult drives in a RAID five configuration. Overall throughput was about 90MB/sec, slower than what a single drive would execute. The SD tech support is clueless and will blame all of your hardware for their lacking in top quality. You will acquire a 薘MB/s" product when in reality you will get half of that.Aside from the pathetic performance it was also horribly loud. It wasn't poor at very first but within just a few days the fan started to get louder and sound like a grinder.I have been in a battle with their tech help forums. It's a quite very good read and will certainly highlight their technical assistance skill and their ability to attempt and weasel out of constructing a affordable device.Just hit up Google for TR5UT-BP Slow Write Speeds and check their forums. I was in a position to buy a true raid controller along with the needed SF-8484 cables for less funds and obtain more than 400MB/sec throughput working with the exact same drives in the same computer. Even utilizing the very same PCIe 2. slot that they tried to inform me was the difficulty.My hardware is fine, your product just sucks. Step up or step aside. Manufacturer Response:Thank you for buying our item.The slower transfer rate is due to bandwidth on the controller card. If working with on PCIe 1. (x1/x4/x8/x16), 90MB/s is normal. If working with on PCIe two. (x1/x4/x8/x16), or onboard SATA or USB three., you will be capable to reach MB/s. If your confirm to use PCIe two. and does not attain such speed, really feel totally free to make contact with us for service. Please examine with our forum for detail expansion.If you hunting for higher overall performance or operating with a RAID controller card, please choose TR4X-B Ɣ bay)or TR8X-B Ƙ bay), as they are employing mini-SAS cable directly to RAID controller. Overall performance can reach MB/s with 4 bay and MB/s with 8 bay.Please speak to us at 1-800-980-1988 or e-mail us at tech@sansdigital.com for additional assistant.External Link(s): Sans Digital User Forum| TR8X-BP Efficiency Page| TR5UT-BP Feature Web page| |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/02/12 |
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Can present existing disks as JBOD. Can only seem to present disks as JBOD via USB2. USB3 is fairly worthless, can't get it to connected to motherboard nor add-in NEC/Renaissance card. eSATA doesn't even attempt, guess it's only for presenting 1 volume when you use the RAID functionality. Believed I found specifically what I required. Would be if it did what it claims... Also, a friend has a different Sans Digital product, fan failed a month or so after warranty, Sans crack assistance can't even inform him how to acquire a replacement. Manufacturer Response:Thank you for getting our product. JBOD function work with both USB two. and USB three.. RAID function will really should as 1 volume and it will operate with both USB 2. and USB three. as effectively. USB 2. and USB three. are basically the very same connection. If USB 2. functions but not USB three., it could only be the cables or the controllers. For add-in card, please make sure the add-in card is powered. For onboard USB three., please make certain comply with the instruction on motherboard to see if there are specific setting. Replacement fan or spare parts is accessible by means of our on the net store. Please get in touch with us at 1-800-980-1988 or e-mail at tech@sansdigital.com if you have further question. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/25/12 |
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Solid develop construction.Quiet (not silent, there"s a flow of air going on and it can be heard)Capable of just about all the raid configurations 99% of customers need Not low cost, I guess. Reasonably speaking, based on how much your time is worth.I guess nas functions built in would just be becoming greedy. When my home server with a 4 drive raid 5 software program (linux) array would not boot, I had to determine if I should rebuild the box or just get the array saved, get the data off and retire the idea of keeping a devoted "mid tower server case" about at all.After spending a few days evaluating, I realized I "just" needed :- anything that would let me re assemble my existing software raid 5 array (so, could give a linux live cd JBOD via a port multiplier sata card - Rosewill rc-605 express card in my macbook pro)- a thing that I could hook up by way of usb to share trivially more than a network, or hook up to my boxee box directly- a thing that would let me hook up through esata to do HD video editingThis was the proper option- I assembled my raid, got the information off, produced a clean 4 drive hardware-raid five array, added a hot spare for extra peace of thoughts, and hooked it up through usb two. (for now- I feel a bit future proofed thanks to the inclusion of usb three.) and shared it more than the netw |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/05/12 |
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1) Nice, high top quality box. Quite compact.2) Uncomplicated insertion/removal of drives.three) Included add-in eSATA card. 1) Annoying hum which can be heard in a different room.two) Doesn't turn off when program turns off in USB mode.3) USB three. never ever worked with my technique, perhaps it conflicted with my USB 3. add-in card? I've completed some testing and discovered that in order to really hit that max create speed nearing 200MB/sec in RAID5, you want to FEED it data that rapidly (like from an SSD). Your typical HDD doesn't have the sustained transfer speeds to saturate the RAID five array (real-world performance more than your common HDD ranges anyplace from 60-120MB/sec), and modest writes compared to huge ones incur a greater penalty. Like I mentioned ahead of, you'd need to have to be copying information from an SSD or some other drive with quickly sustained read speeds in order to see the max create speed in a RAID 5 array in this box.General, item functions properly, so I have no complains. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/19/12 |
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Easy to set up. Place the drives into the trays Ɠ 1TB Seagate drives, 2 1TB WD blue drives) pick the dip switches foe RAID five and Power up.Will need to setup as a GPT drive in Win7 64 and in a position to see it as a 3TB drive.Utilizing eSATA on my MB (Asus P5B). Have not installed the integrated PCIe card yet. Based on other comments right here I am hoping it will significantly boost functionality. But it operates fantastic as is. Pretty quiet, some fan noise. Good solid situation and black glossy finish.Also functions wonderful on USB3. Making use of it to shop video, audio and pictures for my video editing system. Not completely quiet. Nevertheless will need to do some benchmarking to verify performance. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/14/12 |
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This is a response to the Sans Digital comment on my previous critique. We can not be forced to accept their response as truth especially with my effectively documented case. The point of my review is to share the truth about this product and that has been skewed by their accusation that bad hardware was involved. Manufacturer Response:Thank you for buying our item.The slower transfer rate is due to bandwidth on the controller card. If utilizing on PCIe 1. (x1/x4/x8/x16), 90MB/s is typical. If making use of on PCIe two. (x1/x4/x8/x16), or onboard SATA or USB 3., you will be capable to reach MB/s. If your confirm to use PCIe 2. and does not reach such speed, really feel free to get in touch with us for service. Please verify with our forum for detail expansion.If you seeking for higher performance or operating with a RAID controller card, please choose TR4X-B Ɣ bay)or TR8X-B Ƙ bay), as they are making use of mini-SAS cable directly to RAID controller. Functionality can reach MB/s with 4 bay and MB/s with eight bay. That is false. I have connected this unit to two various computers each with verified PCIe 2. slots with no improvement. I have also connected this unit straight to my SATA ports on the motherboard as well as the eSATA port with no improvement. All of this is effectively documented on the Sans Digital forums and has been explained several occasions in which Sans Digital has chosen to act ignorant on each and every occasion. Sans Digital does not stand behind their item, and the offer you for RMA is not help since the same issue would be had with the second unit, as with the others who have reviewed this item. By getting this product I was searching for a device that had 200MB/s performance, and that was not delivered so please excuse me if I do not jump on the chance to acquire one more item from you that is 虠MB/s" functionality. Manufacturer Response:Thank you for purchasing our product. If you feel that the unit is not working as expected, please send in the unit. All returned unit have testing functionality report to reach what it suppose to reach. We do not have control over finish-user testing environment so it may be vary from pc to computer system, but the efficiency is also got verified on both our testing and different critique site. Please totally free feel to use the preferred search engines to evaluation the performance. Please get in touch with us at 1-800-980-1988 or e-mail at tech@sansdigital.com if you have further query. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/02/12 |
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-decent tricky drive rails-5 bays -bay doesnt function correctly on the a single i received. it was not able to add the drive in bay to my WHS storage pool. have an open RMA with newegg. as soon as the next a single comes back, i will edit this evaluation. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/07/12 |
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Arrived a day early employing UPS ground! -I'm in South FLfiveǛ drives working on arrivalDid not have to read the complete manualSimple installation/removal of drives (requires a screwdriver)Sufficient cooling: almost room temp. whilst transferring ɮTB in ɮHrs power supply has it's personal fanQuiet, as it sits next to complete-size gaming tower with eight fans ;)individual LEDs on drive bays and on front panel (not annoyingly vivid)Built in energy supply with typical Pc IEC cableEnergy switch on the frontUSB 3., two. and eSata connections Wasn't specifically impressed with the packaging of the HDDs... I'm personally Really cautious with HDDs, and the packaging seemed risky to me... but no DOAs! I researched as a lot as I could stand, and was nonetheless uneasy about the HDDs to use. I didn't want to have drives hold dropping out of the array. Properly so far so excellent! I purchased five HITACHI HDS722020ALA330 ƐF10311) 2TB 7.2K Sata II drives and have carried out substantial file transfers to and from the unit with out a hiccup. While just a week of ownership, I feel that it has passed its stress test.Installed by moving one of the three dipswitches to set for RAID five, attached drives to rails, inserted, and powered on although holding the reset button in the back; then connected to my Pc via eSata and utilised Win7 Disk Management to initialize the disc. Utilised GPT as an alternative of MBR for 1 7451.75GB partition, and rapid formatted with NTFS. I am but to insert the included CD.It sustains transfer rates of ㅾ-80MB/s while connected to my EVGA E758-A1 MBD's eSata II port, transferring ɮTB (mix of massive and small files). I haven't installed the included esata card.Now I just hope it contiunes to function |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/14/11 |
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Putting the raid array together (mine is a five disk raid 5). Couldn't much easier, so uncomplicated you'll go that couldn't have worked. Pop in the drives, set the DIP switches (who makes use of those these days!), power on holding the rest/setup button in and you have an array...that rapid As yet another poster noted the driver it wants to setup for the HP 622 card by default from the driver disk doesn't work to get the device to be seen over esata. You have dig down to the riad secific driver for the factor to be seen....when you do that all is well. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/23/11 |
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Simple to set up, hardware RAID 5, wonderful for playing back movies over a network. Compact and effectively-built case with a good, shiny finish. I have it connected by way of USB 3 and that's working nicely. Due to the fact it's a hardware RAID, it's effortless to move to any machine that supports > 2TB formatting (GPT) The included software program for power management doesn't seem to do anything. And there is some USB three Turbo software program that was causing severe crashes. It could be because I'm utilizing a USB 3 card considering that my MB doesn't have USB three. That brought on me some headaches in the course of the initial setup. Had a little challenge with 1 of the 2TB drives that was slightly a diverse model. I finally got it to function soon after some fudging. Hopefully future replacement drives will function ok when 1 goes down. Considering that I installed it about three months ago, there have been no other troubles. |
This is a adhere to up to my earlier evaluation. Soon after many several issues described under, you will see why I recommend you do NOT obtain this item. The only very good factor, honestly, is value and aesthetics. This device consistently stops responding and can not be remounted unless my server is restarted. When this takes place the filesystem corrupts if data is getting written. If it wasn't for xfs_repair on this RAID5 I would have lost hundreds of files. It has gotten to the point exactly where every single couple of minutes to handful of hours of usage will trigger this and the filesystem desires to be repaired and from time to time the computer restarted. I am hunting for a different option...however I have no way of transferring the drives more than so I am essentially out of luck. I DO NOT Suggest THIS Solution, the price tag is low so I guess you pay for what you get! Manufacturer Response:Thank you for getting our solution. Please present far more information about the failures. If you are using onboard eSATA port, please refer to onboard SATA driver update. If you are working with the bundled controller, please make sure employing bundled eSATA cables. Please also make sure the you are working with RAID or Enterprise level difficult drives. Desktop or Green drives are not propose for RAID application and might result in incompatibility. We strongly suggest the use of RAID or Enterprise Level tough drives for RAID application. Please speak to us at 1-800-980-1988 or e-mail us at tech@sansdigital.com, and we will be in a position to enable you out.