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๐Ÿ’พ Highpoint RocketStor 6418S: Efficient 8-Bay Tower Enclosure for 6Gb/s SAS/SATA Drives Review

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Description of ๐Ÿ’พ Highpoint RocketStor 6418S: Efficient 8-Bay Tower Enclosure for 6Gb/s SAS/SATA Drives

External 8-Bay 6Gb/s SAS/SATA Tower Enclosure. Each Hot-Swap Drive Tray supports 2.5"/3.5" SAS/SATA HDD/SSD. Designed for use with RocketRAID 4522, RocketRAID 2722, RocketStor 6328L, RocketStor 6328, RocketRAID 3622. Optional Cable (not included): Ext-MS-1MMS - Mini-SAS to Mini-SAS Cable. Mac and PC compatible

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Revainrating 5 out of 5

Massive storage, easy connectivity

Great! Adds a massive amount of ultra-fast storage capacity. It never overheats and drives can be easily swapped out on the fly.

Pros
  • Each hot-swappable drive tray supports 2.5"/3.5" SAS/SATA HDDs and SSDs
Cons
  • Available in black only

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Overall a good device (but not perfect)

Overall a good device. The fans are very slow and the case will slowly cook your HD. Prepare from 5400 rpm to 30ยฐC approx. At 7200 rpm and Raid, the temperature of hard disks (under Linux: smartctl -x /dev/sdX) reaches 50-55 ยฐC, which is too much. You want to max out at 45C. I opened the whole box and removed the standard fans (3 pins with PWM) and put in 2 80x25mm 2.4w fans each (originally 1.2w) so I doubled the power of the vacuum. I connected the fans to the hanging extra Molexes (nice!)โ€ฆ

Pros
  • Compatible with Mac and PC
Cons
  • Difficult to say

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Decent external SAS backplane/chassis

This is a good external SAS backplane/chassis Housing. Bought because I ran out of internal storage space on my white box ESXi system. I was a little concerned that the product description would list specific compatibility with RocketRAID cards, but I've been using the LSI SAS HBA with no problems and even getting HDD activity LEDs from it.

Pros
  • Optional cable (not included): Ext-MS-1MMS - Mini-SAS to Mini-SAS cable
Cons
  • I'll write later