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Startech InfoSafe 4x 3.5″ (RAID) External Hard Drive Enclosure Review

Startech have made the installation of drives into the enclosure a reasonably simple process.  The first step requires us to remove the bays from the enclosure and unscrew the black plastic piece in the end to make room for the hard drives.  The screws removed in this part of the process can then be used to fix the hard drive into the tray.


Once all the hard drives have been installed into the trays, they can be inserted back into the enclosure.  The trays are a tool-less design, meaning they can easily be removed and inserted when required.  We installed two Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB (7,200rpm) hard drives into the InfoSafe for our testing procedure.


When you have all the drives installed correctly into the enclosure, the JMicron driver has to be installed for setup.  This can be found on the software CD included in the bundle.  For those who don't require the RAID functionality of the InfoSafe, there is no need to install the bundled software.  The first page of the software contains a breakdown of the drives installed in the enclosure.


The software provides an easy interface to configure a number of different RAID arrays using the drives installed into the enclosure.  We configured our two Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB (7,200rpm) hard drives in a RAID 0 array and formatted the volume using the NTFS file structure.

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