My concern with these little units is not the number of ports nor the price points. They are OK. My concern is ventilation and heat build up... I feel one of the main causes of HD failure. To rely upon radiation as the primary method of heat dissipation is fairly antiquated. I have a DROBO (actually two of them) populated with four 1 TB drives (total 8 TBs) and they crank out the heat. I have SMT Dual 3.5 HDD External enclosures up the wazoo (a technical term for heaps of HDs) ;) and I have learned a wee bit about heat and HDs.
YOU need air flow. If I were to buy these, I would go to my local Electronics Store (JayCar here in Oz) and pick up some heat sinks and use them for the base and also on top of these things.
The reason I mention the DROBO and SMT is that they are both ventilated and have fans that kick in when there is any heat build up.
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My concern with these little units is not the number of ports nor the price points. They are OK.
My concern is ventilation and heat build up... I feel one of the main causes of HD failure. To rely upon radiation as the primary method of heat dissipation is fairly antiquated. I have a DROBO (actually two of them) populated with four 1 TB drives (total 8 TBs) and they crank out the heat. I have SMT Dual 3.5 HDD External enclosures up the wazoo (a technical term for heaps of HDs) ;) and I have learned a wee bit about heat and HDs.
YOU need air flow. If I were to buy these, I would go to my local Electronics Store (JayCar here in Oz) and pick up some heat sinks and use them for the base and also on top of these things.
The reason I mention the DROBO and SMT is that they are both ventilated and have fans that kick in when there is any heat build up.
My 2 cents...
Cheers, Mates!
I use one of these on a lacie for a heatsink. lol
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