The manufacturer that creates the Mac Pro hard drive enclosure

I want to purchase another hard drive enclosure and I know there are a few companies that manufacture drives resembling the Mac Pro. Rosewell and Coolgear...but which one does the massive storage version with 5 drives on RAID with option of firewire 800 or SATA output? Its almost half the size of the Mac Pro.
I've been googling this one for awhile and I remember seeing it somewhere.

Hi Erik,
Here they are from Gtech called Gspeed:
http://www.g-technology.com/Products/G-SPEED.cfm
I saw one at buffalo sites, it comes with 4 drive enclosure.
But it doesn't look like macpro shape at all.
http://www.buffalotech.com/products/external-drives/drivestation/
Good Luck

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I am waiting delivery of a mac pro dual quad 2.8 and I am getting a 500GB option in bay 1
I am ordering 2 x Samsung (finger crossed) F1 1TB drives (Bay 2 and Bay 3).
My main use will be for producing music which will therefore run plug-ins instruments, effects, work with audio files...
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*_Setup A_*
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1TB Drive 2 = all sort of stuff from scratch disk to personal family files like photos, movies, music, etc...)
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1TB Drive 2 = Applications
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Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
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Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
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Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.
Although you can buy a complete FireWire drive system, you can also put one together if you are so inclined. It's relatively easy and only requires a Phillips head screwdriver (typically.) You can purchase hard drives separately. This gives you an opportunity to shop for the best prices on a hard drive of your choice. Reliable brands include Seagate, Hitachi, Western Digital, Toshiba, and Fujitsu. You can find reviews and benchmarks on many drives at Storage Review.
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WiebeTech
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California Drives
NewEgg
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