11-14-2015, 06:08 PM
onthedownlow wrote:
[quote=Lew Zealand]
Mediasonic ProBox, $99. Low end USB3/eSATAp 4 drive box. With 4 drives in it RAIDed using Disk Utility I get 220MB/sec Read and 225MB/sec Write. Internal connections are apparently SATA-II in this older enclosure as my 5TB Seagates individually get about 180 MB/sec R&W using the USB connection but my recent SSD only got about 120 MB/sec R&W (it doesn't negotiate the SATAII properly so dumbs all the way down to SATA-I).
There is a newer version which states SATA-III compatibility, I suppose that should mean a higher top throughput but who knows. I have 3 of the older ProBoxes, BTW. Hardware redundancy!
Oh yea, that is a great recommendation (especially for the price-conscious).
I would even go so far as to say spend ~$50 more and get the ProRAID model though. I suppose it all depends on what you want to do with the drives and interact with them.
I have one of the non-RAID versions of this box. Worked great. My needs have changed recently, so I'm getting rid of it, after under a year of trouble-free use. Let me know if you're interested. I may even get around to posting on the For-sale forum soon as well.