Reduce Desktop Clutter! Obtain Substantial Storage
Capabilities With Just One Port Multiplier eSATA Connection
(requires a SATA port multiplier compatible host adapter as
described below).
The SeriTek/5PM five-bay hot-swap enclosure provides a high
quality SATA port multiplier (PM) enclosure design that delivers
unprecedented performance and durability. This new SATA PM
enclosure utilizes an innovative backplane design with no internal
cabling which helps to reduce EMI. It supports all Serial ATA hard
drives including the newest 1TB drives with 3.0Gbps transfer rates
as well as original 1.5Gbps Serial ATA hard drives.
The SeriTek/5PM chassis features an attractive design made from
brushed & anodized extruded aluminum to keep weight at a
minimum while maintaining structural rigidity. It includes a
built-in server-class universal power supply and offers a special
Heat Management System to ensure hard drives are kept cool &
reliable while keeping noise to a minimum.
The new Heat Management System provides superior airflow
throughout the chassis, by using a unique system of cooling vents,
holes in the tray handles and perforations in each tray. The
SeriTek/5PM utilizes two whisper quiet hard drive fans with easy
access, user selectable, 3-speed fan control. All 3.5" SATA hard
drive models do not provide the same cooling characteristics, so
why should users be locked into a single cooling fan speed? The
SeriTek/5PM is the only 5-Bay SATA PM enclosure that provides users
with the flexibility of push button fan speed control. This feature
allows users to easily modify the cooling and acoustical
characteristics of the enclosure. In the unlikely event a fan fails
or temperatures climb too high, the enclosure warning LEDs will
turn red and a "mute-able" audible alert will warn the user. All of
these controls are placed on the front of the enclosure for easy
user access. It costs more to build the SeriTek/5PM enclosure with
all of these user friendly features, but this is the type of
quality and detailed design that FirmTek customers expect from an
industry leader.
The SeriTek/5PM is compatible with virtually every external SATA
PM host adapter on the market and supports data transfer rates of
up to 300MBytes/sec or 3.0Gbits/sec per drive. The SeriTek/5PM
easily supports the most demanding applications like uncompressed
high-definition digital video creation & editing, computer
animation, and digital photography.
The SeriTek/5PM only requires a single eSATA-to-eSATA
"I-shape" connector cable (included) for supporting all five hard
drive bays. This reduces cable clutter and allows the user to
connect up to four SeriTek/5PM enclosures to a single 4-port SATA
PM compatible host adapter.
- Innovative backplane design with no internal cabling
- Five hot-swappable 3.5" Serial ATA drive bay enclosure with
removable trays
- Provides physical lock and key security for each hard
drive
- Kensington Security Slot to secure chassis
- Power and activity LEDs for each hard drive
- Supports high-performance storage data transfer up to 3.0Gbps
(300MB/sec) per drive
- Faster than USB 2.0 and FireWire 800
- Additional trays are available separately for virtually
unlimited storage possibilities
- Enhanced Heat Management System for cool, reliable operation
with any size hard drive
- User selectable 3-speed fan control provides user with custom
acoutical/cooling options
- Front-panel power switch with multi-second delay to prevent
accidental power-down
- Surpasses rotational vibration and heat dissipation
requirements of high RPM drives
- Fully RAID capable: Compatible with Operating System and host
adapter based RAID solutions
- RAID arrays can span across multiple enclosures
- Platform independent: Macintosh, Windows or Linux computers
with a compatible SATA PM host adapter
- Works with any brand of SATA PM compatible host adapter.
FirmTek host adapters that provide SATA PM compatibility include
the SeriTek/2SE4 (PCI-X), SeriTek/2SE2-E (PCIe) and the
SeriTek/2SM2-E ExpressCard/34 adapter for MacBook Pro and PC
Notebook Computers
- The SeriTek/5PM may need to be turned off during disk
configuration changes with some hard disk models.
- One five-bay external SATA PM enclosure with integrated 220W
universal power supply (Supports 100-230 volts, 50/60Hz)
- Five removable hard drive trays
- Two keys
- Twenty hard drive countersink-style hard drive mounting
screws
- Four clear rubber feet (pre-installed)
- One external shielded eSATA data cables with "I-Shape"
connectors, 1-meter
- One power cord
- One CD-ROM containing the SeriTek/5PM User Manual
- SATA-5PM-2ME4
($719.95) includes SeriTek/2ME4-E 4-Port eSATA Port Multiplier PCI-Express adapter
- SATA-5PM-2SE4
($699.95) includes SeriTek/2SE4, 4-port PCI-X SATA PM
adapter
- SATA-5PM-2SE2
($609.95) includes SeriTek/2SE2-E 2-port PCI-Express SATA PM adapter
- SATA-5PM-2SM2
($629.95) includes SeriTek/2SM2-E 2-port ExpressCard/34 for MacBook
Pro & PC Notebooks
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