About probox about probox probox is the nations leader in automobile subwoofer enclosures and the peoples choice for the ultimate experience in quality workmanship and sound. H82su3s2 supports 8 x sata i ii iii hard drive with usb 3. The lights are bright, but i want to see the drives. Exchanging data between your computer and bare sata drives could never be easier.
Review of the mediasonic pro box 4 bay enclosure almost everyone at one time has run out of harddrive space, some of us will purchase an internal harddrive and continue to add the harddrives to our system until we run out of either sata ports or room in the case. I am getting excellent performance over 120mbsec when copying data to the mediasonic from another older array. Jul 23, 2014 check out my unboxing of the hf2su3s2 4bay hard drive enclosure with usb 3. See ubuntu 16 and a mediasonic probox hdlsu3 for how i ultimately fixed the problem. How to download and update mediasonic firmware one of the most popular mobile phones brands on the market are htc phones, therefore when it get dated it is important to know how to update android firmware on htc. Note that this box has no internal raid of any kind.
I use this raid to store all the media for the current project im working on, while os and programs are stored on a separate hard drive. Mediasonic proraid 4bay raid superspeed usb micro center. Btw this unit with the mstar 7816 will run linux i. Hf7su3s3 supports 4 x sata i ii iii hard drive with usb 3. Bonus points for stories on ubuntuish system with zfs. I mounted it as persistent, and the only issue i have is i must remember to power it on when i turn the pc on the mediasonic has a power button, or the os complains it is missing. Probox is designed to free your users, allowing them any time, anywhere file accessing, editing, and organising from any device.
The newest official mediasonic drivers contains several important updates that improve security and performance on your pc. It has a standardsized cooling fan in the back and controls on the front for things like setting the fan speed and so on. Linux only seeing one disk of 4disk esata enclosure. Check the avs forum for a copy of the original post and some uboot output. The interface button on the front switches the box between esata and usb. I looked at the mediasonic site, they dont show any downloads, and since it emulates a larger disk, there very well might not be any drivers. I have the 4 bay nonraid, hooked up as esata under linux, so i did not use their software or drivers. I recently purchased a 4bay enclosure mediasonic probox maybe cheap junk, but should work with 4 2tb disks.
I initially setup via usb on a windows pc, then moved it to esata on linux debian. Originally i connected it via esata, but the synology could only see 1 of the 4 drives. Mediasonic forum view topic open sourced firmware request. Mediasonic hf2su3s2 probox is a 4 bay enclosure for 3. If it shuts down by itself for a while, then look into a warranty replacement, it is bad. Home linux upgrading to ubuntu 16 and a mediasonic probox hdlsu3. Build quality and internals mediasonic probox 8bay 3. Mediasonic hf2su3s2 probox 4 bay hard drive enclosure with. Mediasonic hf2su2s2 probox quick installation manual pdf. It supports 4 hdd of different brand and capacity of hard drive. Storage mediasonic proraid hur3su3s3 quick installation manual. Ive also heard that the entire windows os is around 10 million lines of code. I have been using zfs on linux for a few years now and have learned quite a bit. I originally intended to use it on usb3, but i had some trouble with that, so now im trying to use it with esata.
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Mediasonic h82su3s2 probox is a 8 bay enclosure for 3. The mediasonic probox 8bay jbod enclosure comes in a spartan package with just the bare necessities. The most important aspect of the package is the absence of an. Finally, ive tried all the cobbled together solutions over the years. Purchased a basic mediasonic pro box 4 and 2 x 2tb hard drives and connected it via esata to my server accessed my server through a remote desktop connection to initialise and formatt the drives created a robocopy script that copied all my media from the server to the two hard drives. I look forward to getting the mediasonic probox 4 bay as i got a probox 2 port sata 3 pcie 6 gbps card to connect them both to. I bought the mediasonic probox and loaded it up with 4 x 4tb drives. External pci express card 7 mediasonic mobile accessory. Motherboards sata port must support port multiplier in order for your computer to recognize multiple hard drive if the unit is connected via esata.
Mediasonic hur1su3s2 2 bay smart drive raid hdd enclosure. With over 25 years of sound design behind us, its obvious why probox comes out in the lead. Other than that, it has never missed a beat whether it was on my nas or on my headless ubuntu 14 linux server. If you dont see the blue software upgrading screen, then format your flash drive into fat32 and try again 9.
Rapid dock 2 smartdock 2 smartdock pro 1 ocho mobile accessory. Probox allows you to access your content on most windows and mac computers as well as via your iphone, ipad and android mobile devices plus full access from any compatible web browser. Each unit is configured with a software raid 5 using mdadm with 4. Page 1 mediasonic enterprises inc quick installation guide version 1. I had added english subtitles for better understanding. Mediasonic probox hp1ss3 2 port esata pci express card offers simple connectivity between a computer and esata iii devices. It can support 8x hdd of different brand and capacity up to 6tb per drive. I ended up picking the mediasonic probox hf2su3s2 fourbay enclosure. Apr 24, 2016 see ubuntu 16 and a mediasonic probox hdlsu3 for how i ultimately fixed the problem. The mediasonic probox nso1su3 is a onebay hotswap hard drive dock that accepts 2. I have had a lot of success with software raid over the years, and for my purposes it has been more flexible than a hardware raid system. I will be switching to a dell xps workstation i got from dell outlet. Bluetooth receiver 2 cable 5 camera dvr 3 car accessory 1 probox power bank 8 usb hub charger 7 mediasonic notebook dock. So if you had one of these laptops or similar and wanted to closely replicate my project before filling the probox with drives, your cash layout as of this.
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I have several mediasonic probox hf2su3s2 with 4 drives all with the. Ive heard it said that software development introduces 6 bugs for every 1,000 lines of code. Check out mediasonic h82su3s2 probox 8 bay external hard drive enclosure with usb 3. Old vista laptop into a linux zfs file server freedom penguin. Fyi i only used this device over usb, connected to a linux box and holding 3 hard drives on a software raid 5. Upgrading to ubuntu 16 and a mediasonic probox hdlsu3. The product page does not specifically say it supports linux, so thought i would ask if this does work correctly when plugged into a usb 3. Mediasonic h82su3s2 probox 8 bay external hard drive. What i decided on is good old linux software raid 1 and the xfs file system. Im a linux guy, my system is home built with xubuntu and these drives are zfs mirrors. It can support 8x hdd of different brand and capacity note.
I have plex pointed at it for streaming and it hasnt had any problems. First, since the op was asking about the mediasonic probox, where was that asked about by the op. I decided to take the abnormal plunge and install ubuntu 16. Mediasonic probox hdrsu3 superspeed external hard drive enclosure is a supereasy way to convert an internal 2. My current solution had a number of large hard drives in a software raid5. Mediasonic claims usb incompatibilities are to blame but afaik hasnt provided a list of controllersdriver versions that are known to work. Buy mediasonic h82su3s2 probox 8 bay external hard drive enclosure with usb 3. Browse categories, post your questions, or just chat with other members. Linux only seeing one disk of 4disk esata enclosure server fault. It is highly recommended that you update your drivers immediately with the driver agent driver update tool. Windows 10 driver for mapped drive microsoft community. Creating a nas using a raspberry pi 3 part 1 brians geek blog.