Looking for Multi-Bay 5.25" Enclosure

I am looking for a 2 or 4 Bay 5.25" Enclosure that will support using mobile racks. It must have more than one interface (i.e. Firewire and USB). I would prefer to have one with FW800, FW400 and USB 2.0.
Does anyone have any good suggestions?

I ended up going with a FW400/FW800 Bay from a seller on eBay. It works great.

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Looking for Multi-Bay IDE Drive Enclosure

I currently have this AMS Venus T4U 4-bay IDE enclosure connected to my AEBS. It works fine, but I just noticed that the fan is not working. I'm not sure how important this is, since the fan can be turned on or off with a button on the front of the enclosure. But I'm guessing that no fan with 4 hard drives is not a good thing. So I think I should replace it, but I can't find this enclosure anywhere. Nor can I find any other multi-bay IDE enclosures. It would appear no one makes IDE enclosures anymore, at least not multi-bay ones. And I have all these 250 & 300 GB IDE drives that I can no longer use in any of my computers.
Any suggestions? Know of anyone that still makes multi-bay IDE enclosures? Or should I just not worry about having no fan in my enclosure? Or should I just bite the bullet and get a few SATA drives and a new enclosure? If so, any recommendations for an enclosure that works with the AEBS?

I did see a few on CompUSA but you would have to qualify them for the type of SATA (IDE) drives you have in your current enclosure. You may have better luck parting out the power supply and fan assembly. I certainly would not run without airflow.
Now you could rig a fan -- just a fan on the inside or outside to force air through. Get a "Y" adapter you would use to power a disk (if your enclosure is suitably supplied) and run the fan off of that. Mount it inside or outside the case as you need (depending on how much room you have to work with inside) and make your own "Frankenclosure."
But you are correct. Everyone is going to SATA. I would imagine you may have problems replacing the drives pretty soon. And, since SATA has higher limits on drive sizes, you may be much better off.

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Whither firewire? looking for SATA / Firewire (1394A) drive enclosure

I still think (rather I know) that Firewire (1394A) is faster than USB, for applications like storing an external music library for iTunes.
However, I won't go so far as to say FW is being phased out but I am having a dickens of a time finding a FW enclosure.
can anyone reading this steer me to a good SATA / firewire enclosure out there? something that takes a SATA drive on the inside and connects to a firewire 1394A 400 port on the outside.
I came across this - and it says "ATA-133" - am not sure if that's P-ATA or S-ATA, as far as I know, those connectors are NOT compatible. elsewhere on the page it says IDE to FW, so maybe this unit is NOT what I need:
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Okay - here's the specific scenario - am intending to run iTunes from a G4 powerBook with an 80 GB internal drive.
I want to add to the library by using an external drive of roughly 200 GB, maybe more.
The only issue is that I know the larger the drive, the slower iTunes will be, the harder it will be to work in the program etc.
And it will make it even slower if part of the library is external. Since I assumed Firewire is at least somewhat faster, I wanted to go with a FW drive...
so I ask you: will it make any difference? will FW be any faster for the program than USB?
Also, I see that there are TONS of drive enclosures for SATA drives with USB ports - more than I can count - and quite a few with both USB and eSATA (I would love to use that with the powerBook, but of course it doesn't have PCI slots). Am surprised at the dearth of Firewire enclosures!
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Multi-bay Hard Drive Enclosure?

Currently I have an external firewire hard drive, which I pretty much use for backing up files. I was thinking of purchasing another hard drive, but I really don't want two separate enclosures.
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I recently purchased (then returned) a dual enclosure from OWC (Other World Computing) for $120. It would not allow me to boot from either HD when two drives were in the enclosure. When I pulled one drive, it would allow booting from the single drive in the enclosure. I had the jumpers set for 'individual' drives so I could use two different size (and brand) drives. I gave up after several calls to OWC to try to get it to be able to boot from both drives. I then got a ≈ $60 single drive enclosure from Cool Drive to house my HD. I will gladly deal with currently two seperate external enclosures (160 GB & 250GB) and maybe add a third (500GB+) if I want more storage.
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Looking for Optical Bay Carrier Part # for 2010 Mac Pro?

Hello,
Was curious if anyone had the part # for the aluminum optical Bay Carrier for the 2010 Mac Pro / 8 Core?
I have called Apple and they can't provide me with that info. Thank you

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Multi-bay enclosures w Mavericks

Hello,
At first, thinking that a Mac would not be able to read anything plugged into it seemed ridiculous, yet, I have seen reviews for some multi-bay enclosures that say they have stopped working after upgrading to Mavericks, posted as recent as yesterday.
I was hoping for a recommendation for a quality, at least 4 to 6-bay 3.5 SATA enclosure, for 5TB minimum, USB3, Firewire or eSATA connection (plan on using thunderbolt adapter), RAID not necessary its a JBOD but it will house my Time Machine drive so reliablility is a must!
Sometimes, it's hard to find the right third-party accessory to use for a Mac. I was hoping people here would have some advice on this. Am I even approaching it properly? The discs are the four from my old Mac Pro to hook up to the new one. And, it is possible that one of the discs is a Seagate green disc (its been so long I can't remember). I saw where that makes a difference too. But, if it has everything but can't handle that, then I will move the data to a new one. Currently, they are only available via the old Mac Pro thru an ethernet.
Thanks for the help! Have a great day!!
Lisa Rose

I have two Burly multi drive enclosures conected via a Thunderbolt conversion. Make sure your Esata supports port multipliers.
These guys are very knowledgeable and the service is excellent.
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Multi Row Variable Functionality In Contracts - Looking for a White Paper

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We applied the following Patch 13877401: 12.1.3 Rollup for Oracle Contracts Core, we're looking for complete documentation about multi row variable functionality in Contracts.
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Looking for setting for multi color circle effect, that i have used with photoshop 11

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I am looking for a multi user, searchable journal / log

I am looking for an app that will let 4 people create their separate journals or log. The intent is to create better communication and shift hand off. I would like it to be searchable with key words, and also a todo list for each user. Any ideas or suggestions would be great.

wow there are lots of solutions without apps, but i believe if use an app instead of gmail accounts to share google docs, or outlook to share online documents and collaborate orojects, or to use microsoft exchange etc.one solution would be to allow up to five different emails to be used attached to your Apple ID, and to allow sharing all of the iWork suite files through the iCloud.
I store and access all of my Keynote, GarageBand, iMovie, and other files through the iCloud. All of my text Editorfiles are also stored in the iCloud under opened and saved from there. This allows me to access them from all devices. Other people in my family are in my web team, who are allowed access to my iCloud can also do this. A better way at least four images will be to use shared streams in the Photos app on iPad. However,
I think if you are looking for professional team solution for collaboration on multiple types of files, then I would recommend box.
you can create a private unshed folders and files with family and work team and separate them all. If you use dropbox, all box, or what time recommend for large storage for free is MEGA with a 50 GB free storage then all of these solutions have online players, viewers and in some cases even editors within the cloudbrowser interfaces they have designed for the apps.
By sharing these with your work team you would allow them to access and edit the files.if you are using Gmail and Google accounts, then of course your Gmail account will let you access Google docs and you have GDrive meaning, Google drive for storing files. This is deliberately meant for secure sharing with different work teams and online collaboration and administration of projects and files. So you don't really need an app
I think I would recommend BOX. I have just started using it and it seems very promising, and I am using the free version, which serves my purposes.
The service and it's interface, is quite extensive indeed. I'm so if you really are willing to pay for the pro are the super pro versions I think it is a very powerful tool if perhaps slightly expensive. It is fitted out with a heck of a lot of functionality.
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I am a multitasker and use multiple apps in combination both fall the intended purposes which they were made for, and also for other purposes which I have invented myself, that the developers probably never thought of when they created those apps. Please let me know more details about how you wish to use and apply your methods with the app US seeking because I have spent many thousands of dollars on different paid apps to find the functionalities I need on my ios devices. I suffer from gout and arthritis, and my fingers are too sensitive to use a keyboard or mouse which makes my hands swell up and burn like heck. I have just found a way to both control my computer using the iPad as my mouse trackpad and keyboard, as well as using the iPad as a remote desktop which is also mouse and trackpad and keyboard built into one. This has relieved my hands from myinvalidity which as an author who spends up to 18 hours a day typing is a great relief. So that far some apps are not only usable for what the purposes they are stated.for example, I just use Keynote on the iPad to make a single slide with a master slide. But that master slide has become a motion graphics intro video for one of my YouTube channels as an MP4 video. This is not possible to convert from Keynote itself and I had to find an ulterior path to achieving my goal of obtaining a keynote presentation into an MP4 stream of both YouTube video.I have been working on various websites with collaborators who work for me who needs access to the files which I contribute for them to be able to finish that work with. I therefore understand a large number of your needs but perhaps not all of them, because each of us slightly different in our methods, goals and what our businesses are.
but believe me I can give you lots of information about how to apply different apps to achieve goals with and also how to simplify things into try and reducing things to one device and one or as little apps as possible in order to collaborate your projects and get the files accessed and worked on without having to go the long way home, meaning having to use 10 apps could do something that you can do with one browser and one application on the MacBook or a computer. With mobile devices at least with Apple, it is different. There are many websites like YouTube which you can't even comment in the comments box on if you use Safari in iPad. The keyboard is completely deactivated and you cannot edit any single comment there at all. So there are still problems with thisand of issue, meaning we still need to use Mac book and iMac to get our work done especially the big stuff like documentary movies and 4K super HD movies, which are the new thing.
I use an ecommerce solution (ecwid), which has a TinyMCE what you see is what you get text editor inserted into an I-frame within the admin CP Control Panel, and it is completely unnavigable and deactivates the keyboard when trying to edit products using an iPad or any iOS seven device.I have that for how to find a way of connecting to my computer at home using the remote desktop, in order to be able to work on my online store using the iPad. This is just one of many integration approaches which I am experimenting with and spending many thousands of dollars on paid apps in order to find various approaches what is right and what is wrong with the iOS system.
for example, you can airdrop the file from your ioS iPhone to your iOS iPad. But you can't do it to your MacBook which is OS X. This is a great disadvantage. However Sharon just James and saving document files from the iLife and iWork suites in the iCloud all you do is put the iPad on the table with Keynote open for example, walk to your MacBook open keynote on that, I have only just started but I have been inspired since I moved from Windows to Apple over a year ago, and have taught myself to minimize the amount of third-party apps and try to achieve my goals with the built in integrative bull software's which are already available on the OS X Mavericks system and the iOS seven systems.this has resulted in great curiosity in experimenting with and discovering all the functionalities and various ways to apply export import and integrate files with each other in one workflow that is accessible from all devices without any cable connections or file transfer processes to take up our time.
Apple has felt this out very well and has intended it to be used in this way and even for collaborating with teams. You just need to know how to setup your devices properly, and you can probably achieve all of the goals you wish and all of the top quality professional work you wish to with the built-in software on your Mac.
for example, most people don't know that the text edit is not just a text editor. It also has RTF document and Rich text editing and can insert images edited them all as Kendra Finder and QuickView functions which have photo editors much better than Microsoft paint, I'm can do anything that a simple Photoshop type application can do toedit images with at least for those who are not MEGA professionals and just need to do medium professional work. with iMovie aperture iPhoto GarageBand and it's possible plug-ins Logic eggs Pro, Pages, keynote and numbers you can achieve absolutely everything you wish to. I have a YouTube channel which I use as my hobby and to help users of Apple products to understand the full potential off the immensely amazing machines they have in their ownership
it is a new channel and I am just beginning but I am hoping to not do reviews of hardware rather to just show how an advanced end-user has manifested the flu I'm complete setup and integration of all of his hardware and software and his workflow with his Apple devices in the home and office.it seems you and myself, have opposing problems. I know how to achieve all of the girls you mention and Tmart from dozens of different approaches. Some of them free some of them paid. Some of the free ones are better than paint options and the other way round two. One has to look at one's needs and decide which one fits one's needs and if the price is worth it, and also if there is a free option that is viable.I would be happy to communicate with you further on this matter and please do a search on YouTube for how to mockable and I also own a.com domain using the same words,where I shall be posting alternative content about using Apple products in contrast to the many YouTube channels which only seem to do rhardware and app reviews, bemchmark tests, and on unboxings.
I find is boring because I think it's more interesting to just show the end results of what can be achieved using Apple and his built-in products. However, some of the best apps which I really useful I will be showing and presenting and also using thecontent I have made using Apple products to make my YouTube videos with to show how good you can really make things with without the use of third-party apps. If you think about it and it's what I always suspected, the beautiful Apple videos which a promotional on their adverts on the explanatory videos I located in a smooth modern and very intuitive and economic manner which looks very futuristic.
I have been making movies to try and create something that looks smooth and professional on YouTube, but I'm still pretty amateur with it.
I used it to make my intros and to edit all the movies with and at sound files imported from GarageBand which I played the music myself all made the effects myself to avoid claims and issues with YouTube however, I opemed Keynote after having never having used PowerPoint, or any other kind of slideshow maker of presentation software in my whole life].I used it, for the first time yesterday and sat until 6 o'clock in the morning making myself busy and my eyes Bokel training myself from beginner to advanced in one evening. The result was an intro video that is multimedia multi layered, with transparencies, intro amd outros for each inserted element be that a picture, video, textbooks, or what ever.).I found I had made a truly moving dynamic video, and motion graphics that is a single Master slide, which one would think of normally as a still image in a series of slideshows like in PowerPoint.
However, I found out that I can use it to make beautiful motion graphics and explanatory video intros, which are approaching, even in my first attempt, something similar to how Apple videos look.
I thus concluded, logically when you consider it, that Apple of course, makeall their company media and video content, using their own software.
I then realized, that it was not iMovie, and Final Cut Pro, that they used to get those smooth flat translucent and futuristic effects which are beautiful in that simplicity.it is not those solutions which were used for many of the effects and presentations which we see in the videos found on Apple's website
it is indeed I have found since yesterday the ApplePowerPoint alternative,that has produced the most beautiful translucent and somehow flat but in tentatively deep interface of that presentations. Namely, Apple's keynote presentation software on the iPad.I was amazed and uploaded it to my YouTube channel on how to mockable as a demonstration of what can be achieved with Keynote and also to use as an intro for some of my videos which I will be making. Please feel free to search for it and find it on YouTube. I don't wish to publicize myself here on the Apple forums, because that is not my purpose to post here. My purpose to post is my true love and amazement with.I think I've changed my mind about not posting a link to my content. The content helps Apple very much, and so I will leave it up to the Apple moderators of this forum, whether to remove the link or not. I really believe it advertises some of the power of Keynote and iPad and how it can be used to make incredible presentations even with one single slide.so here it is; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRbLzYISJnYmy intention is not to profit from the channel, rather than to support Apple and to show people how to use Apple products to the full extent because Apple developers, I working very hard to push the product to the limits. People should therefore use them and push those limits as they were intended to be pushed. It is incredible what you can really do and I wish people to become aware of this. My YouTube channel exists for that sole purpose. Viva Apple!
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Looking for usb3 drive enclosure

looking for usb3 drive enclosure that actually works with late 2012 iMac. I've tried several that say they are compatible but don't work. The drive 2Tb WD Green works like a champ in a usb2 enclosure but I would like the extra speed. Any Suggestions? Thanks in advance for any replies.

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I had bought a Canon MF4350d for my MacPro with Snow Leopard but having trouble scanning and would like to purchase an alternate device. The features I'm looking for are scanner with sheet feeder, duplex (2-sided) laser printing, fax, and copier (also 2-sided).
Any suggestions? This is for home office use.

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Hi.
I am very new to Oracle Service Bus.
I want to setup two machines, A and B.
I want A to take service calls from BPEL, deliver them to B and have B deliver them to their final service, returning the reply back to A and finally BPEL.
The communications between A and B can be unreliable, ie, B can wander off into the ether, for long periods, days, weeks, before returning.
There is no expectation that A will ever 'disappear' and will always be there to talk to BPEL.
Is there a howto or something that I can use to setup something like this?
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So, you are saying that I don't have OSB on Machine A but only have it on Machine B, listening on the end of a JMSQ.
However, my end game scenario involves a central machine A with many satellite machines, B, C, D, etc.
As I am a complete noob at OSB/WebLogic, I figure, for administrative purposes, I would have an OSB on A which was the administrator of the domain, which extends out to B, C, D, etc.
So, in that case, OSB on A's sole role would be admin server whilst on B, C, D, etc, would be the actual processing. This would alleviate me having one admin console for each machine.
Does this sound logical?
To the above end, I am playing with OSB 10gR3 and I can create a domain using the configuration wizard and boot the admin server.
I seem to have endless problems trying to start up a managed server for the domain. I always get a message similar to the following
"Authentication denied: Boot identity not valid; The user name and/or password from the boot identity file (boot.properties) is not valid. The boot identity may have been changed since the boot identity file was created. Please edit and update the boot identity file with the proper values of username and password. The first time the updated boot identity file is used to start the server, these new values are encrypted."
I have tried re-creating the boot.properties file, as per other posts on in these forums, to no avail.
I have tried a cold install of OSB, run the config wizard, add a machine and managed server within the config wizard and the thing still wont boot.
I have tried creating the server and machine using the admin console web pages, no success.
I just can't seem to get a managed server to boot, out of the box!
Once again, thanks for your help.
...Lyall

Looking for Thunderbolt 2 RAID Array options that can match the new Mac Pro's quietness -- or at least come close!

Maybe it is too early to talk about anything beyond the Pegasus2 Series (http://www.promise.com/promotion_page/promotion_page.aspx?region=en-global&rsn=1 00) when it comes to Tunderbolt 2 storage options. Looking for something on the order of 8 to 12 usable TB of redundant storage or possibly a JBOD option of 4 bays. This is coming close but I do not think it is Thunderbolt 2 (http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-raid-thunderbolt).
Either way -- looking for users experience not only on usable Thunderbolt 2 solutions but more importantly noisiness. I want to upgrade my existing Mac Pro to one of the new ones and I have found the old one to be nearly unnoticable in a quiet desktop environment. Would love to find the same peace and quiet when migrating to the new form factor that is going to need external storage to match what I have been used to inside the old Mac Pro.

Not your quiet storage, but then I would put it in a cool closet or small room off to the side :-)
http://www.macgurus.com/store/Item/ARC8050 ( I was assuming but maybe not, that it would support RAID6 which is always preferable for larger arrays. Seems to have most features you want for 8 drives). MacGurus "Burly" are never quiet but they are rugged and well tested.
Migrating storage will be a concern. I don't like the noise from my older SATA OWC dual-drive metal enclosure though suppose to be 'acceptable' unless they have improved the fans they are out for me.
OWC for Thunderbolt products.
Helios enclosure (the new dual-slot Helios PCIe chassis)
… moving various hard drives into Thunderbolt cases
USB3 hard drive enclosure.
For those without eSATA enclosures, a simple eSATA to USB3 adapter might do the trick.
USB3 is plenty fast to house two hard drives.
OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual.
Available now starting at about $430.
review of the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual.
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