[Kevin Wild] "They now don't sell the chasis' separate."
Well actually they do.
It's the Fusion D500P E-series.
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusiond500p-eseries.html
This may be pertinent.
A friend of mine bought the original Fusion 500P 5-Bay last December.
He populated it with 5 Maxtor Maxline Pro 500GB Raid edition SATA2 drives.
This was configured as Raid 0 with SoftRaid.
The first problem he had appeared to be with one of the Bays.
The enclosure was replaced.
After using new firmware update, the Raid would mount (sometimes).
Running DiskTester would cause the raid to fail.
My friend blamed the problem on DIskTester.
In my search around the net I found an amended web page where Sonnet now stated that the enclosure was not rated to be used with 5 drives, only 4.
Hmmm.
On a hunch I looked up the power requirements for the Maxtors.
The total for the five was 150 watts at startup and 50 watts idle.
I contacted Sonnet support and got this reply:
"We started putting that sticker on the last batch of Fusion 500P's we shipped as we were noticing problems. Shortly after that, we beefed up the power supply, changed the product SKU and started shipping everything with drives in them."
(the new Fusion D500P E-series removes this restriction.)
The power supply in the original version was 80 watts.
Not nearly enough to safely run the 5 Maxtors at once.
The enclosure was replaced by Sonnet at no cost with the now standard 180 watt supply.
No more problems.
