Cheapest 5-in-3 (in Europe)?

[jfromeo]

Chenbro, Icy Dock, iStar, Raidage...?

They are incredibly pricey at least in Europe, well over +120€ each (~$200) and eBay doesn't help either as with shipping costs from USA they almost hit the ~$200 tag.

I thought the 5-in-3 were really simple and inexpensive, a cage holder with a backplane and being trayless but I was wrong.

Something I've read is that all 5-in-3 "have" RAID 0/1/0+1/5 capabilities. What does it mean? Do they do RAID on their own, without the need of a controller? I plan to use them with an Adaptec 12-port controller RAID card, and intended to RAID6 them. Does that mean I couldn't use RAID6 because the 5-in-3 doesn't support it?

Thanks!

 

[rockdude14]

not sure about the raid part
but this is what I went with its a 4 in 3 instead of 5 but still much cheaper than most of the alternatives
if all you need is more drives in less bays
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817993002&Tpk=coolermaster 4 in 3

 

[agrophel]

Hotswap 5-3 Caddy. SATA II With Cooling Fan. £49+ V.A.T. 100 units Due Feb 20th

More here:
http://www.xcase.co.uk/category-s/102.htm

On Xcase.co.uk

 

[drescherjm]

No they do not have any raid of their own. I have a few of these (several different brands) and there is no builtin raid. Just the device works in a raid. I use these mostly in linux software raid but I do have one workstation at work that needed to be windows so I had to use a 3ware card for the raid since the nvidia software raid was horribly slow under windows. Slow to the point that a RAID 10 was slower than a single disk in all benchmarks that I did.

 

[XS Janus]

Hotswap 5-3 Caddy. SATA II With Cooling Fan. £49+ V.A.T. 100 units Due Feb 20th

More here:
http://www.xcase.co.uk/category-s/102.htm

On Xcase.co.uk

I cant find any info on that specific model?
Who mkes it?
The price is awesome!

Will it be available on the site you posted?

 

[Merlinen]

Ye, some more info would be nice.

80mm or 92mm fan? replaceable ?

 

[Michaelius]

Does it need to be 5in3 ?

Becouse you can get Coolermaster 4in3 module for 20 euros:

http://www.cooling.pl/cooler-master-4in3-v2-hdd,produkt,433145.html

nice looking, makes good work of reducing vibrations, has 120mm fan with filter.

I put there 3 hdds and 2 ssd drives inside.

Unfortunatly no hotswap and requires removing whole module from case to replace drives

 

[agrophel]

I cant find any info on that specific model?
Who mkes it?
The price is awesome!

Will it be available on the site you posted?

Yes, It is under comming soon. 100 units Due Feb 20th

Mostlikly end up sell fast out, if only order 100
http://www.xcase.co.uk/New-computer-cases-coming-soon-s/118.htm


What fan them are using i got no clue. Mostlikly end up with more info when arive in shop.

 

[XS Janus]

I use similar bays but without fan turned on.
Granted only GP drices are inside.
They operate at 40C. The way I did it is only a 12cm fan sucks the air out of the case. All holes are taped shut, so the air gets pulled through the 5in3 cages.
Server is low power, but still.

If I open the case and dont turn on the cages fans, the drives overheat to 50C in 30min even while in idle! Alarm goes off!
Ironic...

 

[Raxor]

Im going to have to keep an eye on that, was looking for a decent price for one of these in the uk.

Cheers for that

 

[Merlinen]

Same, hope the shipping to Sweden ain't that much from Xcase.

 

[drescherjm]

I do not have any from this manufacturer however these vans are generally pretty noisy even in slow speed. For my units I am pretty sure I can remove the fan although I have not tried.

 

[neotokyo]

I'd say:

Norco SS-500
iStarUSA BPU-350-RED
IcyDock, Xclio, Chenbro, and a few other random brands that are hard to find.

I really need a better case before I go forward on one of those. I'm pretty set on the Norco...

 

[Merlinen]

From that pic i am pritty sure it is the "Norco SS-500".

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16816133030