8 Bay 3.5 inch HDD USB 3.0 external Enclosure Tower Box with JBOD from icybox IB-3680SU3
8 Bay 3.5 inch HDD USB 3.0 external Enclosure Tower Box with JBOD from icybox IB-3680SU3
Scan code: LN60545 Manufacturer code: IB-3680SU3
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8 Bay 3.5 inch HDD USB 3.0 external Enclosure Tower Box with JBOD from icybox IB-3680SU3

ICY BOX IB-3680SU3 External JBOD Case for 8x HDD SATA 3 to USB 3.0/eSATA Host Ports

Scan code: LN60545 Manufacturer code: IB-3680SU3
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Product Overview


Need More Space?

This external JBOD enclosure offers space for a total of eight SATA I / II / III HDDs or SSDs. It consists mainly of aluminum and is therefore stable and dissipates heat particularly well. The cooling of the drives is supported by two temperature-controlled 80 mm fans on the rear and corresponding air intakes below the drive bays at the front. The enclosure's door is lockable.


The display of the JBOD system continuously informs by various LEDs regarding the operation, fans, interfaces and disk usage. As a huge data storage, this JBOD system can present his full functionality, there the used external USB 3.0 and eSATA gets a role as the possibility to use HDDs without any size limitation.


To the capabilities of the JBOD enclosure various other convenient functions are included. These include the strapless HDD installation and the energy-saving standby mode. But the HotSwap ability, Plug & Play and the support for both Windows and MAC systems too.


A Real Storage Giant

The IB-RD3680 is the largest RAID/JBOD enclosure we offer currently. Eight HDDs can fill up this enclosure. It is available in two varieties, the one is a non RAID where the other is a RAID enclosure with support to RAID 0/5/10/50/BIG (Spanning).


Faster Exchange

Thanks to HotSwap and Plug & Play, replacing an HDD is very easy and comfortable, but transfering data is as fast as comfortable. The internal SATA interface combines with the external eSATA and USB 3.0 provide a fast and reliable solution.


Cooling Please!

The enclosure is made completely of aluminumup except of the front cover. This high-quality material always ensures a passive heat dissipation to the ambient air. In addition, it provides a silent operation thanks to the temperature-controlled fan, which actively ensures air circulation.




Features
• Silent operation by thermal controlled fan
• Energy saving by supporting sleep modus!
• Easy assembling by trayless design!
• HDD capacity unlimited
• External data interface: USB 3.0, eSATA
• Plug & Play and Hot Swap
• Windows 7/8.x, MAC OS X > 10.5
• JBOD (Single)
Specifications
Edition  
NAS Form Factor  
Bays  
Total Storage Included 0 GB
Type of Drives Included  
Edition of Drives Included  
Capacity of Drives Included  
Max. Storage Capacity  
Drive Interface Support 8 x SATA III - 6Gb/s
Drive Form Factor Support 8 x 3.5"
Internal Flash Memory No
Internal Flash Memory Capacity  
DOM Module No
DOM Capacity  
CPU Type  
CPU Model  
CPU Cores  
CPU Speed  
RAM Memory Included  
RAM Memory Type  
Max. RAM Memory Supported  
Cache Drive Interface  
Included Cache Drive Capacity  
Included Cache Drive Type  
LAN Type N/A
Expansion Slots  
External Connectivity  
Cooling  
Noise Level  
PSU Type  
PSU Wattage  
Max. Power Consumption  
Physical Security  
Dimensions  
Weight kg
Additional Information
Scan Code LN60545
Model Number IB-3680SU3
GTIN 4250078188865
Warranty

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Details
Duration:
12 months
Type:
Return to base
DOA Period:
28 days
RTB Period:
12 months
Manufacturer Contact Details
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Telephone:
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ICY BOX IB-3680SU3 External JBOD Case for 8x HDD SATA 3 to USB 3.0/eSATA Host Ports is rated 4.5 out of 5 by 4.
Rated 4 out of 5 by from A complete novice's perspective As someone who has never owned a NAS or external enclosure before I just wanted to give my two pence. The item is well packaged by the manufacturer, the instructions are clear and concise. But even I didn't need them. I've only needed to look at them from a 'I wonder what that does' point of view. Out of the box is how I've got it set up. Setup was painless (I'm using USB) just plug in and turn on. One of my fans makes a slight clicking noise, I thought it was a drive at first. the unit is slightly louder than my pc (which it's sat next to) this is a NZXT H400i with a Dark Rock 4. It's really simple to get up and running. I just screwed the plastic covers onto the front of the drives using the included torx(?) screwdriver and standoff-type screws and slid it them into the bays. I bought it for old drives I have laying around and new drives I purchased at the same time. Copying files across the two new drives (Seagate Ironwolf's) I never saw the speed drop below 170mb/s, this with music files, video's, pictures (jpeg's and RAW) and a lot of documents. The older drives range in capacity from 160gb-1tb. The unit is very solid feeling, the buttons feel a bit cheap, the lcd strip showing drive usage is rather bright and can't be switched off. Overall I'm very happy with it as it tidies things up nicely but I would have felt a bit better about the purchase if it was a bit cheaper, I don't feel it's worth near £300. Hope this helps.
Date published: 2018-09-23
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Great JBOD Enclosure. Wonderful JBOD for the price, very sturdy. Only issue that isn't mentioned anywhere is the 2-pin 80x80x20mm fans. One of mine is rattling when in use, but it's not worth sending the whole unit back to replace one fan, I'll just buy a set of 4 from eBay for £10. Would be nice if it included 80x80x25mm 3/4-pin fans instead, as they are easy to come by and are made by manufacturers such as Noctua. Alas, I cannot fault the unit itself, just a cheap fan.
Date published: 2018-04-27
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Awesome Totaaly elimated the need to run a seperate fileserver after my main Plex storage servers ran out of bays. I'm using with Stablebit Drivepool and it works brilliantly.
Date published: 2018-04-21
Rated 4 out of 5 by from Great device, great throughput, bad fans. I bought this device to move a disk array out of a home media server to reduce the power drain and increase reliability and expansion capability. The box itself is attractive, with matte aluminium housing and brushed black aluminium panel and cool blue LEDs on the front control panel. The LEDs show the settings and disk access. I personally find flashing LEDs annoying and would have liked a way to switch them off, but they aren't overly bright. The silent operation is definite marketing blurb though, and the whir of the fans would irritate if you had to be in the same room as the IcyBox for any length of time. As such, it's in the hallway cupboard and neither the fans nor the LEDs bother me. Access to the disks is easy. The front panel is a lockable door (keys provided). Inside are two other doored compartments housing 4 disk trays each. These doors are secured with thumb screws. The disks themselves need a handle attaching to the front before inserting into trays in the IcyBox. Handles and screws for this are provided. This is the only part of assembly which needs a screwdriver. The disks slip easily into the trays, and the compartment door can be screwed closed after insertion. However, the door doesn't secure the disks in any way: I had one disk that I hadn't pushed in fully enough to connect to the SATA and power pins at the back of their mount, yet the door closed without a fuss and I only realised my error when the disk didn't show on the system. The SATA connection capability of the IcyBox is only SATA2, so I went with the USB3 option. Plus I didn't have an 8-way multiplexing eSATA controller. The USB3 outperformed the SATA3 controller on the motherboard, and I was very pleased with the throughput (see below for testing). The units ships with both USB3 and eSATA cables, so if your computer has the capability you can try either connection option without further expense. For the price, I think this is a very good device. There are a few small niggles as mentioned. I would liked to have connected via SATA3, as some Linux utilities are limited when the disks are hidden behind the USB controller (smartmontools and some hdparm tests can't get to the identity of the disks), but performance wasn't impacted at all. Some throughput numbers comparing USB3 to SATA3 ======================================== The purpose of testing was to check the effectiveness of USB3 versus SATA. In particular, if the USB3 would be a bottleneck. As such, the asymmetric RAID architecture/number of disks between the two systems is not a problem, but also not an accurate reflection of the SATA/USB3 capabilities. The following tests compare read and write speeds from an EXT4 filesystem on a RAID1 array of 2 disks with a ZFS filesystem on RAID10 (mirroring plus striping) of 6 disks (stripes are across 3 vdevs of 2 disk mirrors). The RAID 1 is hooked up to SATA3 ports on the motherboard, and the RAID10 is the Icy Box, connected via USB3. The system is an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4430 CPU @ 3.00GHz, running Gentoo Linux, kernel 4.9.6, with ZFS v0.6.5.9 All disks are Seagate BarraCuda (3TB) 3.5 inch Hard Disk Drive (7200rpm) SATA 6Gb/s 64MB, Model=ST1000DM003-1CH162 Note that all tests were performed 3 times while the server was unloaded. The output shown below is representative of the values returned, which were consistent across runs, with a variation of < 2%. Disk performance -------------------------- # Via SATA hdparm -tT /dev/sda4 /dev/sda4: Timing cached reads: 21856 MB in 2.00 seconds = 10941.15 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 454 MB in 3.00 seconds = 151.31 MB/sec # Via USB3 hdparm -tT /dev/sdh1 /dev/sdh1: Timing cached reads: 22500 MB in 2.00 seconds = 11264.48 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 596 MB in 3.00 seconds = 198.45 MB/sec Throughput tests ------------------------- # # Test write speed of 1GB file # # SATA3, RAID1 dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zero.bin bs=10M count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB, 1000 MiB) copied, 7.11833 s, 147 MB/s # USB3 RAID10 dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/backups/zero.bin bs=10M count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB, 1000 MiB) copied, 3.24875 s, 323 MB/s # # Test read speed of 1GB file # # SATA3, RAID1 dd of=/dev/null if=/tmp/zero.bin bs=10M count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB, 1000 MiB) copied, 0.148705 s, 7.1 GB/s # USB3, RAID10 dd of=/dev/null if=/media/backups/zero.bin bs=10M count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB, 1000 MiB) copied, 0.149945 s, 7.0 GB/s # # Test write speed of 10GB file # # SATA3, RAID1 dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zero.bin bs=10M count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 10485760000 bytes (10 GB, 9.8 GiB) copied, 105.861 s, 99.1 MB/s # USB3, RAID10 dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/backups/zero.bin bs=10M count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 10485760000 bytes (10 GB, 9.8 GiB) copied, 54.3492 s, 193 MB/s # # Test write speed of 10GB file # # SATA3, RAID1 dd of=/dev/null if=/tmp/zero.bin 20480000+0 records in 20480000+0 records out 10485760000 bytes (10 GB, 9.8 GiB) copied, 117.515 s, 89.2 MB/s # USB3, RAID10 dd of=/dev/null if=/media/backups/zero.bin 20480000+0 records in 20480000+0 records out 10485760000 bytes (10 GB, 9.8 GiB) copied, 68.966 s, 152 MB/s
Date published: 2017-02-13
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Which port multiplier technology does this use, Command-based switching or FIS-based (frame information structure)?

Asked by: JimS
Don't know - as I guess you're aware, finding any info on stuff like this is nigh on impossible. For what it's worth, I'm using it with a StarTech PEXESAT32 which is based on a Marvell 88SE9128 chip. Works just fine. [Note: ...but this card, although it has 2 x eSATA ports, only has port multiplier capability on a single port at a time. I also tried a StarTech PEXESAT322i which claims to provide port multiplier capability on 2 ports concurrently. This card is based on an ASMedia 106x chip. I had intermittent problems (logged as drive controller errors) so gave up on that one and now have 2 x PEXESAT32 cards installed, using 1 port on each to connect to 2 external enclosures. No, I'm not using RAID.] Hope this helps
Answered by: RPRP
Date published: 2015-11-29

How are the Drives Powered + what else is NEEDED other than the Drives?

If there was an 'Included in the Box' statement or complete Product Details this question may not have been necessary? How are the Drives Powered - Internal PSU? - Via USB3 Cables? - or? How many USB3 Cables are required, the photo is not clear enough to determine if the rear Ports are eSATA or USB3? Seems obvious that they will but don't want to waste time, please confirm that the 2.5 to 3.5 All Metal Drive Adaptor Scan # LN46274 will slot into this box. Thanks for your time, best wishes, Stan TAYLOR NB. The 'Related Products' field below could not find LN46274!
Asked by: Gelphyn
1. The disks are supported on narrow rails and plug into SATA power and data connectors on a backplane in the enclosure 2. The disks are powered from an internal power supply. A mains lead is provided 3. There are 2 rear ports, one eSATA and one USB3. Cables for both are provided. If you are using eSATA, then the controller in the PC must have port multiplier capability (because you are attaching multiple drives to one SATA port) 4. To insert and remove the disks you must attach a (somewhat flimsy) plastic handle to the front screw positions on each disk. More accurately, the handle is used to remove the disk from the SATA connectors - just move it to the 'down' position. 8 handles + 16 screws + small screwdriver are in the box. 5. Once the disks are inserted, they are held more securely in position by a metal door + thumbscrew arrangement. There are two of these, one at the top and one below, each retaining 4 disks. 6. The case door is lockable and is also held in place by a plastic clip affair. You may want to remove this (2 screws) as it is unnecessary and may require a sharp tug to open. 7. Also in the box are two (pretty useless) instruction leaflets, one in English, one in German (ICY BOX products are distributed by the German company RaidSonic Technology) 8. The enclosure is much smaller than the picture suggests - 13&quot; high x 5&quot; wide x 8.5&quot; deep. 9. What else is needed? Nothing - other than the correct ports on the PC. 10. No experience of using drive adapters in this enclosure, so I can't answer that one. The adapter would need to provide the same external dimensions as a 3.5&quot; disk, position the connectors in the right place, and be able to accept the screw-on handle... 11. Err - that's it... Hope this helps - kind regards PS: I have no connection to either Scan or RaidSonic
Answered by: RPRP
Date published: 2018-02-20

Is the eSATA port on this device limited to SATA2 (3Gbps)?

Asked by: JimS
Seems like it. The spec details on the RaidSonic site give the transfer rate as: USB 3.0 up to 5 Gbit/s, eSATA up to 3.0 Gbit/s Hope this helps
Answered by: RPRP
Date published: 2015-11-29
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8 Bay 3.5 inch HDD USB 3.0 external Enclosure Tower Box with JBOD from icybox IB-3680SU3
8 Bay 3.5 inch HDD USB 3.0 external Enclosure Tower Box with JBOD from icybox IB-3680SU3