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I have 2 older ones under 2 different brands but essentially the same.
Not much is needed to get them up and running, plug your disks in. On mine it had raid, so the raid level had to be set first, but plug it into the machine, format the drives and off you go
How did you get past it being a US plug?
Hmm slowly leaning towards a Terramaster or Yottamaster but the price difference is nuts. £300 range. I can't seem to find anything of the import via Amazon or how I could make the drive work in the UK. I might email the company and see if it's possible.
Mine was brought in the UK, but they have external power bricks anyway so you can just swap the plug end of the cable
Take a look at icybox as well they are the same, more or less underneath
Oh okay might just bite the bullet, the mediasonic is recommended alot and seems compact enough too.
Expect 300MB/s transfer rate for the entire enclosure. If that's fine with you, it should be usable.
It doesn't support hotswap though. Removing a drive (or one erroring out) in operation will reboot (disconnect/reconnect) the entire unit power cycling each drive. Bad for a high availability system but fine for a cheap DAS for the price.
It's just to store media for my plex server nothing more at the moment. I have 4TB inside the unit but it's a small mini tower. I do have another 4TB to attach and ideally id like to use. But think I'll just invest in one big drive and save for a better caddy for the future(year) and get a decent one next Black Friday or Xmas sales.