Posted on Friday, April 03 2009 @ 13:01 CEST by Thomas De MaesschalckLian-Li Industrial Co. Ltd has launched EX-10 (1xHDD), EX-20 (2x HDD’s), EX-30 (3xHDD’s) and EX-50 (5xHDD’s) external HDD rack to support your storage needs in an all aluminum 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.More details at Lian Li.
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-20: RAID Mode
BIG / JBOD / RAID-0(FAST)
RAID-1(SAFE, SAFE 33, SAFE 50)
EX-30 and EX-50: RAID Mode
BIG / JBOD+ (DISK 2 & DISK3)RAID-0(FAST) /
JBOD+ (DISK 2 & DISK3)RAID-1(SAFE)
The devices connect via USB 2.0 (480Mb/s) or e-SATA (3 Gbps, auto-negotiates to 1.5 Gbps) directly to your PC.
Features:
SATA Hot Swap External HDD's Lockable door No drive reformatting on RAID change Hot Plug / hot swap Plug and play functionality Automatic disk rebuild (when one or more RAID 1(SAFE) volumes are configured) Independent 8KB FIFO/ Port No driver, BIOS or software required LED states for each HDD USB 2.0 (480Mb/s), e-SATA (3 Gbps, auto-negotiates to 1.5 Gbps) Folded elements to prevent sharp edges Availability: Arriving at local distributors end of June MSRP: EX-10 US$120+VAT MSRP: EX-20 US$135+VAT MSRP: EX-30 US$170+VAT MSRP: EX-50 US$215+VAT
