Sans Digital TowerRAID TR5M - 5 Bay eSATA RAID 0/1/10/5/JBOD Performance Tower with 6G PCIe Card (Silver) available on February 15 2016 from Amazon for 200.75
UPC bar code 739410733276 ξ1 registered February 15 2016
Bundled with RR622 dual-port eSATA 6Gb/s PCIe 2.0 x1 RAID controller card for over 200MB/s RAID 5 performance. Dual-port eSATA 6Gb/s PCIe 2.0 x1 RAID controller supports up to 2 units or 10 hard drives in a single or multiple RAID array. Backward compatible with PCIe 1.0. Supports RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 5 spare, spanning and JBOD. Supports online expansion to expand capacity without the need to recreate the RAID volume and erase the existing data. Built-in real time hard drive health monitoring and e-mail notification for critical events. Supports PC, Linux and MAC OS, including Windows 7 and Snow Leopard. The TowerRAID TR5M is a compact RAID tower utilizing the latest SATA II port multiplier feature, where one single eSATA cable connects to five 3Gpps SATA II hard drives. Bundled with a high performance RAID controller card RR622, its RAID 5 performance is capable of reaching over 200MB/s. Online expansion is a feature included in the controller card so that RAID could be expanded without the need to recreate the storage space or erase the existing data. Advanced monitoring functions include real time hard drives health status and e-mail notification for critical events. Designed with easy installation in mind, the TR5M is designed with five hot-swappable tray modules so that hard drives could be removed and installed with ease. The included dual-port eSATA 6Gb/s PCIe 2.0 x1 RAID controller card allows the connection of up to two TR5M units (up to 10 hard drives) using only two cables, while all drives could be configured into a single or multiple RAID arrays, providing over 200MB/s in performance. Bundled with RR622 dual-port eSATA 6Gb/s PCIe 2.0 x1 RAID controller card for over 200MB/s RAID 5 performance. Dual-port eSATA 6Gb/s PCIe 2.0 x1 RAID controller supports up to 2 units or 10 hard drives in a single or multiple RAID array. Backward compatible with PCIe 1.0. Supports RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 5 spare, spanning and JBOD. Supports online expansion to expand capacity without the need to recreate the RAID volume and erase the existing data. Built-in real time hard drive health monitoring and e-mail notification for critical events. Supports PC, Linux and MAC OS, including Windows 7 and Snow Leopard. Accesses five hard drives using only one cable. Host interface: eSATA with Port Multiplier. Drive interface: 5 x 3.5" SATA I/SATA II.
^Sans Digital TowerRAID TR5M - 5 Bay eSATA RAID 0/1/10/5/JBOD Performance Tower with 6G PCIe Card (Silver), Sans Digital. Amazon. UPC 739410733276 (revised Feb 2016)
Sadly, I can't comment on the performance of the enclosure... simply because in two shipments from Amazon, the PCIe card was missing in both. That was several weeks of wasted time. It's hard to give a product anything credit when it doesn't come with what it says it will...
