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miniSwap/ES Key Advantages

The FirmTek miniSwap/ES Trayless, Dual-Bay, Hot-Swap, external enclosure, brings the performance, convenience, design excellence and style associated with FirmTek 3.5" enclosures, to the energy efficient, 2.5" SATA/SSD storage device form factor.

The small, ultra light, yet rugged miniSwap/ES can be integrated as a portable "on-the-go" dual-bay 2.5" enclosure, or as a space saving, high performance, trayless 2.5" desktop drive mounting station. Multiple miniSwap/ES enclosures can be used to provide advanced RAID performance, expanded capacity and simple or complex storage configurations.

The Trayless, Direct Connect, 6G miniSwap/ES hardware is designed to excel with audio/video editing, photography, portable computing, storage expansion, backup and any application where external, trayless, hot swap, high performance, data storage is desirable. The miniSwap/ES provides the following features:

Attractive, durable, portable Trayless enclosure supports dual 2.5-inch SATA SSD or HDD

Easy to set up: No screws, no drive tray required, simply swap drives in seconds

Easy to operate: Simply open the door to insert or remove storage devices for virtually unlimited storage

Supports 7mm, 9.5mm, 12.5mm and 14.9mm drive heights

Smart Power Management: User selectable power settings for Auto-on or Manual-turn-on

High performance design - Integrated Direct Connect eSATA backplane; no internal cabling

High bandwidth design - SATA 6.0Gbps up to 600MB/sec per drive

Supports SATA 1.5G, 3G or 6G HDD or SSD 2.5-inch form factor with any capacity

Fully RAID capable: Compatible with Operating System and host adapter based RAID solutions

Can be configured as JBOD or RAID and used with multiple miniSwap/ES enclosures

Power and Activity LEDs for each hard drive

Aluminum case for maximum durability and heat dissipation

Ultra quiet, fan free, aluminum heat dissipation cooling system

High performance can handle multiple projects simultaneously

Perfect for both storage-hungry and speed-sensitive applications

Cross-platform, PC and Macintosh compatible, operating system independent

Expand storage without overloading the computer's power supply or increasing heat within its chassis

Works with Macintosh or PC with shielded Serial ATA ports running Mac OS X, Windows or Linux

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