Lian Li USB2.0 / E-SATA Hot Swap & Raid External Enclosure for 3.5 SATA Hard Drives : EX-30

Lian-Li Industrial Co. Ltd has launched EX-30 (3xHDD’s) external HDD rack to support your storage needs in an all aluminium frame and housing. The HDD rack has a front loading door, with individual handles on a bracket for each HDD, as well as a back panel PCB with a RAID controller from Silicon Image. The Sil5744 chipset offers hot plug and play capability with many of the RAID settings required today.

The SATA HDD configuration is in a Hot Swap Plug & Play backplate with an integrated RAID controller chip. To keep the device cool there is an appropriately sized fan for your unit with a washable nylon filter keeping dust and debris out.

• EX-30: RAID Mode
• BIG / JBOD+ (DISK 2 & DISK3)RAID-0(FAST) /
• JBOD+ (DISK 2 & DISK3)RAID-1(SAFE)

HDD Type: 3.5" SATA
HDD Amount: 3
Interface: USB 2.0 (480Mb/s), e-SATA (3 Gbps, auto-negotiates to 1.5 Gbps)
Raid Controller: Silicon Image™ SiI5744
Features: Hot Swap, Plug and play functionality
Supports 1.5TB RAID drive, maximum 4.5TB
Automatic disk rebuild (when one or more RAID 1(SAFE) volumes are configured)
No driver, BIOS or software required
LED status for each HDD
Dimension: (W)175mm x (H)123mm x (D)260mm

• Intel Pentium III 500 MHz equivalent or faster
• Windows XP, 2003 Server or Windows Vista with latest Service Packs
• 64MB RAM minimum
• 250MB of free disk space
• E-SATA & USB Connection

• PowerMac G5, MacBook Pro or Mac Pro
• Mac OS X 10.4.8 (or later)
• E-SATA & USB Connection
• Advantages of Hot Swap RAID array