Anyone used a Lycom ST-126rm or similar?

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I'm looking at creating a box with 4 or 5 drives in it which is seen as a single drive without external software if this is possible. The reason for this is that I can then attach the box via a thunderbolt to SATA adapter or USB3 to SATA or eSATA cable etc......

If I buy a box like that ready made then the price is SILLY.

I've seen this:

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Which seems to be what I'm looking for but as yet cannot find more information....

http://www.lycom.com.tw/st126rm.htm


Anybody used one of these or something similar?
 
I think that puts a SATA controller at the other end of the SATA port and it will effefctively multiplex the 5 drives into a single SATA connector. It does NOT make the drives appear as a single drive - that's down to the software on the PC it is connected to. Clearly, you share the bandwidth of all drives down the single SATA lane.
 
arad85 said:
I think that puts a SATA controller at the other end of the SATA port and it will effefctively multiplex the 5 drives into a single SATA connector. It does NOT make the drives appear as a single drive - that's down to the software on the PC it is connected to. Clearly, you share the bandwidth of all drives down the single SATA lane.
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The bandwidth is not an issue as 3Gb/s or even 1.5Gb/s is enough but I have had devices in the past, notably during the SCSI era, which allowed several SCSI devices to behave as if they were one SCSI device. This is why I asked if anyone had actually used one of these. Having done a search someone else has made the same assumption that I did whilst trying to build a FW800 device. SATA is a single drive connection so 5 SATAs to 1 SATA would imply that this is what it is doing.

You are saying that you think it multiplexs 5 drives down one cable.... What would be the point? You can already buy cables that transfer multiple drives to a RAID controller so personally I wouldn't think that stuffing 5 drives worth of data down one SATA cable at once would be useful. If it switches the 5 drives and allows a modified driver to control 5 drives in say JBOB then thats another matter again but not useful for me.

The point is that you would have thought that the company would have made it clear what their device actually does!!

This is basically what I am wanting to add it to: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10574
 
cowasaki said:
You are saying that you think it multiplexs 5 drives down one cable.... What would be the point?
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So you can have an extra 5 drives attached down a singe e-SATA port. If you want massive storage in a separate enclosure but bandwidth isn't an issue, it's a cheap way of adding extra disks....
 
arad85 said:
So you can have an extra 5 drives attached down a singe e-SATA port. If you want massive storage in a separate enclosure but bandwidth isn't an issue, it's a cheap way of adding extra disks....
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As I said with the above. Yes a poss/prob ibility (not useful to me) but how can any company have a marketing department that is so incompetent that we are having to discuss it on a forum :bonk:
 
Not sure where you'd buy them from though....
 
Scan sell the simpler one and most of the range. I've emailed them about the other two.
 
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