E8 Mini-SAS, Multi-lane & Port Multiplier HBA Dependent SAS/SATA Desktop Storage


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"By connecting two multilane cables from my computer to the E8, I was able to write data at 500 MB/sec, and read data at even a faster rate."

David Hurd - P3 Update

"The thing I like most about the E8 is the way the drive trays lock into the drive bay. Nobody does it better."

Tom Badoud - A-VIDD Electronics

"…it's priced competitively when filled with enterprise-quality disks such as the Seagate Barracuda E5 - the EnhanceBOX PM series really is something else."

MacUser Lab - United Kingdom

"The new EnhanceBOX PM’s ultra quiet power supply and the user serviceable 80mm fan design provide users with a powerful, yet quiet SATA PM enclosure."

Arthur Whalem - AMUG Reviews
 

 

 
Elegant E8 Series
ArrowProduct Overview
A Pioneer and leader in hybrid I/O technologies, Enhance Technology introduces the EnhanceBOX E8 Series, a host card (HBA) dependent, desktop storage array product line, developed for OEM, VAR, & storage solution providers. Supporting both SAS or SATA I/II hard disks, the E8 Series features a new generation Mini-SAS (MS), Multi-lane (ML) and Port multiplier (PM) host connectivity capable of sustaining data rates up to 450MB/Sec (Mini-SAS Model). Constructed with aluminum material and hot-swappable cooling fan, the E8 Series is the coolest storage system on the market with a host of hot-swap components, empowering users with capabilities normally found in enterprise-class SCSI systems.
 
ArrowTechnology
The E8 Series was built on the latest I/O technology, the Mini-SAS (SFF-8088), Multilane (ML) and Port Multiplier (PM) connectivity , for multiple-disk configurations and superior airflow. The Enhance Technology E8 Series comes with highly reliable, thumb screw type cable/connector that combines up to eight (8) low-cost SATA or high reliable SAS (ML & MS Models) disks to the broadband high performance computing environments. Available in 8 or 4 -port configurations, the E8 Series is the only and coolest external desktop storage array helped resellers and integrators to offer more cost/effective storage solution to the end customers.
 
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ArrowProduct Specifications
 MODEL COMPARISON
E8 - ML
E8 - PM
E8 - MS
 Form Factor
Compact 8 -Drive Tower
Compact 8 -Drive Tower
Compact 8 -Drive Tower
 Host Interface
Multi-lane
Port Multiplier
Mini-SAS (SFF-8088)
 Disk Interface
SAS/SATAII 3Gb
SATA I/SATA II
SAS/SATA II 3Gb
 External Cable
2 x Infiniband RX 4
2 x eSATA Cable
2 x Mini-SAS Cable
 Number of Disks Supported
Up to 8
Up to 8
Up to 8
 Performance
Up to 400MB/sec
Up to 300MB/sec
Up to 450MB/sec
 Power Supply
Single 300Watt
or
2x350 Watt Redundant
Single 300Watt
or
2x350 Watt Redundant
Single 300Watt
or
2x350 Watt Redundant
 AC Input
115-230V~ 6/3A 50-60Hz 115-230V~ 6/3A 50-60Hz 115-230V~ 6/3A 50-60Hz
 OUTPUT
+12V/12A +5V/30A
+12V/12A +5V/30A
+12V/12A +5V/30A
 
ArrowPower & Cooling
The E Series keeps your workloads and critical applications running with minimum hardware failure interruption through the deployment of user friendly enclosure cooling management, specifically its hot-swappable fan and removable HDD trays (5). With the enclosed enclosure design, aluminum material and construction, direct airflow engineering, and rear hot-swappable fan implementation, this compact SATA-disk based external enclosure manage to outperform the enterprise SCSI class system in a heart beat.
 
ArrowKey Features
  • Aluminum material construction
  • Built-in SAS/SATA II compatible backplane
  • Eight hot-swappable HDD drive trays with individual keylock
  • One hot-swappable enclosure fan facilitates regular maintenance
  • One thumbscrew enabled front door with optical LED indicators
  • Fan-fail LED and alarm with mute button
  • Power & Status LED indicators on the door
 
 


Model Description
square E8-MS Compact Desktop 8-Drive SAS / SATA-to-Mini-SAS
square E8-ML Compact 2U 8-Drive SAS / SATA-to-Multi-lane
square E8-PM Compact 2U 8-Drive SATA-to-eSATA

Disk Support
square E8-MS 8 Drives SAS / SATA Disks
square E8-ML 8 Drives SAS / SATA Disks

square E8-PM 8 Drives SATA Disks
square Max. HDD Supported 8 SATA I/II HDDs
square Max. HDD Supported 8 SAS HDDs (MS & ML only)
square Max. HDD Capacity 1.5TB

square Max. System Capacity 12TB

Host Connections
square E8-MS 2x Mini-SAS ports
square E8-ML 2x Multi-lane ports
square E8-PM 2x eSATA ports

Enclosure
square Hot-Swappable 8 x Removable HDD Tray
square Drive Failure 1 LED indicators for each HDD
square System Fan 8cm x 4 Ball-Bearing fan (installed)
square Security 8 individual keylocks for
each
HDD drive tray

Cooling
square Everflow Model F 128025BH brushless fan
square DC 12V, 0.19 AMP

Physical & Environment
square Operating Temperature 10°C ~ 35°C
square Non-Operating Temperature -10°C ~ 50°C

 


Power Supply
square AC Input: 100-240V, ~2A, 47~63Hz
square Output: +12V/5A +5V/5A

Dimensions
square (H x W x D) 11.5 " x 5.75 " x 17.5"

Weight
square 35 Lbs (without disk drives)

Material
square Face Plate Bezel Sturdy ABS Plastic
square Housing & Tray Aluminum alloy

Supported Operating System
square Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008
square Mac 9.X, 10.X
square Red Hat Enterprise
square VMware ESX 3.5

Manufacturer Warranty
square 3 years limited manufacture warranty

 
 
  HDD Validation
 
 Validated SATA 3.5 HDD
 
Hitachi Deskstar
Seagate Barracuda
Maxtor Diamond MAX
160GB
 
 
X
250GB
X
X
X
400GB
X
X
X
500GB
X
X
X
750GB
X
X
 
1TB
X
X
 
1.5TB
 
X
 


 
 Validated SAS 3.5 HDD (E8 ML, E8 MS Only)
 
Hitachi
Seagate
Maxtor
 
Ultrastar
Cheetah
Atlas 10K V
Atlas 15K II
36GB
X
 
 
 
36.7GB
 
 
 
X
73GB
X
X
 
 
73.5GB
 
 
X
X
146GB
 
X
 
 
147GB
X
 
 
 
147.1GB
 
 
X
X
300GB
 
 
X
 
400GB
 
X
 
 
450GB
 
X
 
 

 

 
 
  HBA Validation

 Non-RAID Mini-SAS (E8 MS Only)
Areca ATTO HighPoint LSI Logic
ARC-1120 ExpressSAS R380 RocketRAID 2314 LSI SAS3801E
    RocketRAID 2322 LSI SAS3801X
    RocketRAID 3522  

 

 Non-RAID Multi-lane (E8 ML Only)
Areca ATTO HighPoint LSI Logic
ARC-1680x ExpressSAS R380 RocketRAID 2322 LSI SAS3801E
ARC-1120ML   RocketRAID 3522 LSI SAS3801X

 

 Non-RAID Port Multiplier (E8 PM Only)
HighPoint Silicon Image
RocketRAID 2314 SI3124

 

 
  Host OS: Windows, Macintosh
Windows Windows XP Mac Mc OX
 

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