Eagle Tech Consus D-Series 2xSATA External Raid Storage Review

Storage/Other by SidneyWong @ 2007-07-06

The newly released Consus D-Series 3.5inch hard drive enclosure provides room from 2 HDDS, it supports Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS 10.2 or above in Raid 0 or JBOD via USB and Firewire. When high capacity is what you are after together with safe off-site backup, this could be what you are looking for. Now, let´s find out what the D-series can deliver.

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Installation & Sound Test

Installation:

Installation is quite straight foward; the manual does help. It requies the removal of the side cover held by two screws; with the light weighted aluminum cover, one of the screw stripped the thread.

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A metal tray holds the two HDDs. To install the HDDs, unscrew the 4 screws and remove the tray.

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A bag is found containing HDD mounting screws and 4-rubber feet is taped onto the tray.

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The rest becomes easy –>

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Before you proceed, it is time to decide how you want the HDDs to be used;
There are two jumpers placed close to the SATA connectors.

  • Raid 0
  • JBOD (spanning>
  • No Raid 0, just two HDDs

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    The left jumper (J-3) connected is for Raid-0; Connecting the right (J-4) is for JBOD; J-4 & J-3 "open" is for Non-Raid.

    If you don't have small/skinny fingers, you will find connecting the SATA and power cables a bit challenging as I found these cables are rather "short". For those who have experienced breaking SATA connector; it becomes easy to do here.

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    Before I proceed further, I measure the sound level of the 60mm fan at close up range.

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    Testing is next -->
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