External Caddie for 4 hd

[steveo]

hi peps am looking to swapping over to an imac soon but am wanting to keep the 2tb that i have for video and photo storage now i could get 4 caddies for each one but am just wondering if theres any companys that make them for 4 hard drives, i have seen an icy box that takes 2 for about £30 but would really like them all in one with a firewire 800 cable any ideas ???

 

[Berserker]

Depends how much money you're prepared to drop. I think most of the 4-bay enclosures use Gigabit Ethernet rather than Firewire, but there's always Drobo. Be prepared to spend 10x your £30 for that option though.

 

[Pandobear]

I have a 5 bay esata model, that uses a port multiplier, the same company produce a usb2/firewire 800 version, though it only has the 4 bays, try googling CF-105SUF8 Black

 

[Hamster]

Pandobear, you may have given me a better solution to my backup problem here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17914030

So with something like:

CF-105SUE Black

which has e-sata and usb, can i connect up the box to my pc via one e-sata cable and the pc will see 4 separate drives?
Would i need more hardware?