eSATA Port Multiplier Drive Enclosure - Sonnet Fusion
500P 5-Bay
Sonnet's Fusion 500P 5-bay Serial ATA (SATA) eSATA drive enclosure combines support for the fastest SATA drives with hot-swap versatility in a package built for performance. Fusion 500P is compact, but its small footprint will make a big impression—with its powerful built-in universal power supply, it is a great solution for anyone looking to store large amounts of data in a little package.
The Sonnet Fusion 500P employs a high performance SATA II port multiplier to manage the enclosed drives and connects to a SATA host controller card through a single port*—connect up to 5 drives to your computer with just a single eSATA cable!
Auto-negotiation for 3Gb/s and 1.5Gb/s drives guarantees no switches, jumpers, or control panels need to be set, so installation is as simple as securing the drives to the trays.
The five hot-swap drive trays offer great freedom for building your own storage solution—you don't get locked into a specific configuration. Start out with a single drive for simple data storage and then add additional ones as the need arises. Or, fill the enclosure with five drives up to 500GB each to create a huge 2.5 Terabyte striped RAID array—combine two or more for uncompressed 10-bit HD video capture and editing—Fusion 500P is truly versatile. Connect up to four Fusion 500P enclosures to a Tempo SATA E4P or Tempo SATA X4P host controller to create the ultimate storage solution—using today's highest capacity drives, you'll have 10TB of data storage at your disposal!
Sonnet Fusion 500P Features:
Five hot-swappable 3.5" drive trays
SATA II compliant, 1.5Gb/s and 3Gb/s auto-negotiation
Built-in port multiplier for one cable to host simplicity*
Whisper quiet fan for noise sensitive environments
Up to 62% smaller (by volume) than competitive products
Drive activity and drive presence LEDs
Built-in universal power supply
Hot-swappable
Platform independent—works with Mac, Windows or Linux computers with a compatible SATA controller
Standards-approved eSATA connectors rated at 5,000 insertions
