Budget NAS Storage for Video Editors! | ICYBOX JBOD enclosure 

I have one of the MediaSonic versions with RAID support. It’s a great product but it won’t do RAID 5 as most would expect. Instead you’d have to opt for RAID 50 which is a serviceable option. There is also a MediaSonic USB-C version 3.1 Gen 2, 10Gbps Version (model H82-SU31C) which should be faster.

Holy Hell your production quality is super high You communicate things clearly and simply with simple wording that most anyone could understand

I bought one of these 10years ago and it never skipped a beat. All the drives where upgraded over time obviously started with 2tb than 6tb and now ive replace half with 8tb. I just with week bought a new one because well its been 10yrs lol and while it seems quieter and alot more shiny its near identical and im good with that. Took apart the older one and gave it a good freshen up and once over and its still came up looking decent very minor rust on the edges (live near the beach now so that salt air is a pain).

This is a fantastic primer on the DAS unit, though I can see you very soon wanting to move to NAS. The fact that you are using this as primary storage instead of as part of a backup strategy….I’ll keep you in my prayers dude. (P.S. Great video, you’re a fantastic presenter/editor/variousRU-vidSkillsHave-r, so I have smashed the subscribe button into a fine paste.)

Interesting enclosure but quite expensive here in EU. I ordered a smaller variant with 4 bays (IB-RD3640SU3) that costs 40% of the 8 bays one, let's see how it goes. I always have a Sinology NAS in mind, these enclosures work well (what I've read) even plugged to a Qnap/Sinology NAS as extra storage.

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So how does "fine, kinda" translates to "does exactly as it should"? Also, you forgot to mention what model you are using...

So if you already have a real nas you can just plug this one in with usb and it add drives. I have a synology 2 bay nas but thinking about getting a larger one. 2 x 18 tb isent enuff for me so thinking getting 8 x 18 tb drives but 8 bay nas is insanely expensive so this if it work is more affordable I think.

I've had other similar products from them in the past... one drive was killed by it. 3 others were wiped. And their customer service I couldn't even get ahold of.. haven't touched any of there stuff since.

Hey man, great video. I've been searching on youtube for the past hours to find out any information i can related to a device like this. Because, like you, i too would like to take out my hdd's from my setup and move them to a device like this one. I am looking for a device like this one because, and i'm not sure, a NAS like a synology knows only raid and formats the drives when you add them to it for the first time. And i don't want that to happen, i just want to move a hdd from a setup to a device like this and not be worried about formatting or things like that. What i wanted to ask you, because i've seen the video where you say that it "Sync's with your power ON/OFF PC", so my understanding is that when you turn off your PC the icybox will shutdown, also when you'll turn on your PC the icybox will turn on. But what i am curious also... does it have an option to, perhaps, i don't want the icybox to power on when i turn on my PC ? Perhaps when i turn on my PC, i want the icybox to remain Off and turn it on only when i need or want it to. Can the icybox do that ?

for just about $400-500 I was able to throw together a pc that could hold 8 drives and act as a full fledged similar to a synology nas with free nas software, granted you would have to buy the drives, granted this was just on pc part picker

thx for the vid bro. i would have liked to know the TB cap per bay as i have a mediasonic probox 4bay and it's capped at 4tb per bay :(

Great info. would you mind telling me what brand the neon/led tube is pls ? :)

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I bought 2, 6-7 years ago, been upgrading over time til 8-14tb discs, just bought 2 more 14tb, just to find out my kittens stole the keys from the lock, so i cant do anything....

I really wish TrueNAS worked with jbod, I Got 8 different drives that are 500gb 300gb 1TB you name it, be nice to just throw them all in and make 1 big pool, Of course I wouldn't put anything important on it, but I do want to use it for backing up my steam games. In fact since it can't do jbod its why Im sticking with a mini itx build it only supports 4 drives, if it did work with jbod I have x99 system with 10 sata ports I'd use, but its not worth it.

omg tech messi?

How loud is it? I would sleep in the same room...

“Raid for speed” your forgetting one of the biggest benefits of multi drive storage and RAID setup.. drive fault tolerance! I need to backup photos and videos that I could never get back if lost. I have most online but cloud storage is expensive.

What's the model? Can't find this anywhere in the states.

what is the speed compared with sata3?

Excuse me, but is this a HDD enclosure or a DAS or a NAS ?

not having raid support is kinda of a huge dealbreaker for a lot of people i guess... if one drive goes down, all data on it is gone. I would personally not trust doing a software raid with this type of Hardware but that might just be me.

How is it a budget NAS if its literally not a NAS at all...

Hey what you pay for, I prefer my Synology features. 🤷🏻‍♂️

JBOD one drive dies your screwed

DON'T buy any seagate barracuda drives if you are going to use it as backup system. Also dont get them if you are going to have more then 2 HDD (or more) in one closure as theses HDD are not designed for NAS or DAS set-up.

What about the elite of society? By that I mean Mac users 😂