Mini Storage Tower (black) with 1 5X1 Port Multiplier installed
Applying the innovative storage design concept from the original Storage Tower, the Mini Storage Tower features increased portability, almost half the size and weight of it's predecessor. The Mini Storage Tower stores up to 4 standard 3 1/2" or 4 2.5" Mobile Racks, and comes with a low noise cooling fan and stylish design with swing open front panel for easy drive access. Similar to the Storage Tower, all the hard drives inside can be connected to computer via a single USB, eSATA, Multilane cable or 4 eSATA cable with a choice of different back panel configurations.
Using the back panel with eSATA or the latest SATA Multilane connectors, you can build yourself a high performance (up to 3 Gbits/sec using SATA II) external storage system or a terabyte storage farm, and connect it up to 6 feet away from the computer system! Any SATA hard drives inside the Mini Storage Tower can be easily converted into eSATA (the latest external SATA standard). Each drive can be connected directly to a eSATA host controller for maximum throughput in any system. For better cable management, multiple SATA hard drives inside the Mini Storage Tower can be connected to system via one cable using a Port Multiplier or a SATA Multilane bridge model MST4ML.
The Mini Storage Tower with a built-in Hardware Port Multiplier (HPM) is an ideal external RAID storage solution for sharing with different computers. Once the HPM is configured, the entire RAID set can be attached an eSATA port or USB port of any system.
Need to connect Terabytes external storage or multiple drives to your system via the convenience and speed of the USB 2.0? The Mini Storage Tower with the but-in JBOD USB adapter is the perfect answer. You can connect up to 4 IDE hard drives (or SATA hard drives using the Addonics SATA-IDE converter) inside the Mini Storage Tower to your system with one single USB cable. The 4 drives can be set up to appear to your system as 1 large drive, 2 drives or as 4 individual drives.
