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GMG 3538UEP 3.5" External Hard Drive Enclosure
GalaxyMetalGear - it's a name you'll long remember, with a product line you won't soon forget. That's because GalaxyMetalGear hard drive enclosures are specially designed for tomorrow's data access and delivery needs, and easily applied for your data critical demands today. Whether you're building a digital infrastructure for huge corporation, or storing movies, games, and photos for your personal entertainment - you'll find a GalaxyMetalGear hard drive that fits your unique requirements. GlaxyMetalGear - storage and multimedia solutions for now and for tomorrow.
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Specifications
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Detailed Features
Features
- Non Raid setup - Single (two independent drives).
- JBOD: RAID 0 - Disk Spanning function (Two hard drives can be combined into
one larger logical drive).
- RAID 0 - Data Stripping function (Two hard drives can read and write data
simultaneously, and employ data in disk array, which can improve and speed
up data access).
- RAID 1 - Disk Mirroring function (Treating two hard drives as a set, when
writing the data, it writes the data into two hard drives simultaneously,
If one of the hard drive stop running, the other hard drive still keeps the
duplicate data. This is provides data protection and fault tolerance)
- USB mass-storage compliant (USB 2.0 and USB 1.1)
- Fully compatible with 3.5" SATA I & SATA II hard drives up to 2
x 1TB(1000GB)
- Unique Screw Less, Just slide in the hard drive and you ready to go
- Blue LED illuminated Panel indicates power status
- Red LED for hard drive access activity
- Built-in powerful 4 x 4cm fan, provides excellent cooling
- Truly plug'n play and hotswappable
- Secure door with lock to ensure the safety of hard drives
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Latest Owner Reviews
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| REVIEW BY: EricKS Reviewed
Aug 28, 2008 |
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| This is my first hard drive enclosure and really didn't know what to expect. I have tried Maxtor external drives and have been sorely disappointed. Thought I'd try a hard drive /enclosure setup. Overall I am impressed with the solid, quality construction. The drive was so easy to configure in the enclosure - it just slides in. The only issue I had with the set up is not recognizing how to do the format on the new drive. Once I figured it out, I saw it on the instructions. I overlooked it the first time. It is a great enclosure. |
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What You Should Know
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Even The Best Hard Drives Die.
Do You Back Up?
Businesses of all sizes
are witnessing an explosion in the volume of data they hold. Whether it is
the result of the Internet, email, or increasingly heavy and media-rich
application software, there is a massive growth in the volume of data all
around. Conservative estimates place data growth at approximately 80% per
year. Data is increasingly being recognized as one of the real assets of a
company, and losing this data would cause severe damage to any organization.
Data loss can be very costly, particularly for
organizations in the small and medium business (SMB) market where the
difference between survival and closure can rest on the ability to recover
from a disaster. At the very least, critical data loss will have a financial
impact on companies of all sizes:
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Data type |
Time to re-create 20 MB |
Cost |
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Sales and marketing |
19 days |
$17,000 |
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Accounting |
21 days |
$19,000 |
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Engineering |
42 days |
$98,000 |
The financial impact on a company is a combination
of loss of business, low productivity, legal action, and the cost of
re-creating data. A study showed that the cost of re-creating just 20 MB of
data can be extensive!
Your best solution, is an external drive as a
backup. You can have multiple drives, and it is much easier restore
from a portable external drive, as opposed to CDs or DVDs.
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Why Do I Have
Less Drive Space?
Your hard drive may show less space than the published specifications due to
a number of reasons.
- The way size is calculated and
displayed.
- Any "Partitions" on the disk will
change the total in a specific partition.
- Hidden files and folders decrease
available space.
- Compression increases the apparent
size, but not the physical size.
- Drives larger than the OS or Drivers
natively supports.
 First, the definition of a megabytes
(or gigabytes) is a unit of data storage capacity measured in 1,048,576
bytes (or 1024KB). The larger the numbers, the more apparent the size
difference will be when listing the size as megabytes (or gigabytes) versus
bytes. Actually, both numbers are correct. The noticeable difference is due
to the 1024KB definition of a megabyte. This is why a 95.3GB hard drive can
also be listed as having 102 billion bytes of total space. Just think
of it as "round off" In the screen shot at right:
The first number is the total number of bytes,
the second number is based on the number of megabytes or gigabytes.
Second, some computers have a
non-DOS hard drive partition that is used for features such as Save to Disk,
Hibernation, or Recovery. This partition is not normally reported by the
operating system, although it can be viewed using a disk partition utility.
This is very common on desktops and laptops. NOTE:
Partition information will be created or
formatted automatically during initial system setup and a system recovery.
Third, by default, all system files
are hidden and cannot be seen. This may adversely affect the reporting of
available hard drive space. You can set your Folder Options so you view
system and hidden files and folders, but do be careful as changes to system
files can adversely affect your system.
Fourth, if you turn on Compression
for a drive, it will increase reported free space and used space, but since
compression is based upon the actual contents, this number is not fixed, but
will change as files are added or changed.
Fifth, older operating systems did
not support some of today's larger drives, so the total space reported may
be much smaller than the drive specifications.
It is also worth noting that bad sectors
are corrected by your operating system and can change the total drive space,
free space, or used space as well.
So as long as a drive is reporting a value
approximately close to the specification value, you can be comfortable that
you received the right drive and that you are getting to correct data
storage. Of course, tuning of your drive's partitions and options can
yield optimal values, but this is not something for the average user to
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Limited Warranty
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Manufactured by:
Galaxy Metal Gear
Mfg Part No:
3538UEP-BLK
UPC No:
812284010565
Box Size:
( Length:
13, Width:
6, Depth:
8 )
Shipping Weight:
4.1000 pound(s)
Limited Warranty:
12 months parts;
12 months labor
Click here for full warranty and support information
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Limited Warranty: A full text version of the limited warranty
may be obtained by mailing a self addressed, stamped envelope to the
address below and requesting the warranty for item number:
G15-1012
TigerDirect.com
Warranty Information
7795 W. Flagler St. Suite 35
Miami, FL. 33144
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