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Thunderbolt Drive Enclosures (UK)

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Simebaby

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Apr 1, 2010
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Hi All
Getting ready to purchase a NMP to replace my 1,1 after 8 years of loyal service.
The 1,1 has 6 drives installed, all of which ideally I'd like to access on the NMP. I might be looking in the wrong places but I'm struggling to find a TB enclosure(s) for the drives - all the ones I can find have drives pre-fitted. I found a promise enclosure on the US apple store but this doesn't seem to be available in the UK.
Anyone here in the UK tracked down a TB enclosure?
Cheers
Si
 
Simebaby said:
Hi All
Getting ready to purchase a NMP to replace my 1,1 after 8 years of loyal service.
The 1,1 has 6 drives installed, all of which ideally I'd like to access on the NMP. I might be looking in the wrong places but I'm struggling to find a TB enclosure(s) for the drives - all the ones I can find have drives pre-fitted. I found a promise enclosure on the US apple store but this doesn't seem to be available in the UK.
Anyone here in the UK tracked down a TB enclosure?
Cheers
Si
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This place is in the EU and is a reseller for OWC.

http://macupgrade.eu/catalog/mercury-elite-pro-dual-usb-30-thunderbolt-0gb-p-980.html#.U1qpfF6rtHh

The prices aren't bad either.
 
Other World Computing is good (and their prices are reasonable).

Also, take a lot at transintl, Lacie, and Caldigit for hard drive enclosures. If you don't need (or want) RAID, then you need a JBOD (just bunch of disks) enclosure.

http://www.transintl.com/minig-sata-lll-4gb-4x1tb-7200rpm-32mb-cache-drive.html

http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10623

http://www.caldigit.com/products.asp

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I am in the same boat. This summer I am probably going to purchase a nMP and I have been studying with what to do with my five hard drives in my current Mac Pro. I like the Lacie 5Big and the price is higher for it because it comes with five 2 TB drives. However, you can take out the pre-attached drives, and use them for backup archive drives. Lacie's products are very dependable and the 5Big does JBOD. I don't understand nor need a RAID drive and the expense that comes with it.
 
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