Smart Fan function with built-in Thermal-Sensor, auto & manual modes, and 3 speed levels. Mediasonic HF2-SU3S2 Pro Box is a 4 Bay Enclosure for 3.5" SATA I / II / III hard disk drive. It supports 4 hdd of different brand and capacity up to 3TB per drive. Note: Motherboard's SATA port MUST support Port Multiplier in order for your computer to recognize multiple hard drive if the unit is connected via eSATA. Please don't take this opportunity lightly and let it slip through your fingers on Mediasonic HF2-SU3S2 ProBox 4 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure with USB 3.0 & eSATA Order now. It's easy and simple.
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Reviews By Ed C : Date October 21, 2010
Very easy to use. Just plug the hard drives in and turn in on. BE SURE to set the switch to the proper connection (USB or eSata) or else the drive enclosure shuts down. This is due to the PowerSync feature. For example, if you are connecting via eSata and the switch is set to USB (default), then the device will detect no power going through USB and shutdown. Apparantely, the other person who gave this item a negative review didn't realise this.
I'm using the Mediasonic HF2-SU3S2 on a PC running Vista, which is connected to a Rosewill RC-219 PCI Express eSata SATA II Controller Card ([...]
Only cons I have, though nothing major is:
1. Power connection is on the side, not the back
2. Takes a few seconds for each drive to power up and be recognized.
I'm planning to buy another enclosure for another PC.
Note: According to the documentation, USB 3.0 connections is backware compatible with USB 1.1 & USB 2.0.
Reviews By T-Jucation : Date November 14, 2010
This product is a great addition to anyone interested in consolidating their hard drives. The backwards compatible usb 2.0 port works fine on all of my PCs and on Macs that I've tested it on. It's very easy to set-up (< 5 min) But be sure to read the setup card provided (note: USB 3.0 cable provided with case).
Pros: Put 4 x 2TB harddrives in case and they were instantly accessible on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 7 Ultimate, Ubuntu 10.10, and Snow Leopard.
Cons: None so far.
Reviews By akasurreal : Date October 18, 2010
Easily handles my 4 x 2TB drives on eSATA and USB3.0. I tested both interfaces and getting over 100MB/sec sustained reads on both interfaces! I am using this for a Windows Home Server (WHS) and it is perfect since it does not do RAID, so that I can let WHS handle folder duplication instead. I intend to buy another one of these to expand my WHS capacity in the near future.
This is one of the few enclosures I could find that does not come with some kind of crappy (as in low-end) built-in RAID controller. When using in WHS, it is preferable to *not* use RAID and to let WHS do its folder duplication, so this is perfect and cheap for that purpose. Make sure your eSATA ports can handle a port multiplier or you will only see one drive or none.
Cons:
None so far. Documentation was a little weak, but not hard to figure out.
I did think it was broken at one point because its default setting is to power down if it does not detect a connection to your PC. When I switched from USB3 to eSATA, I had to tell it to change interfaces (button on front) or it thinks its not connected and powers down. You can also turn off this auto-sync power setting as well.
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