Build Your Own Storage Tower
This is an area of "How to Build a Storage Tower" for people who need a storage product to store their mass critical data. iStarUSA offers a cost-effective solution and customization flexibility to build your own tower that you can ever imagine. The Storage Tower can be combined via Port Multiplier, InfiniBand (SFF8470), or miniSAS (SFF8088) to form a large capacity and high performance external JBOD system.
iStarUSA provides a variety of hard drive cages for Serial ATA and Serial Attached SCSI hard drives. Therefore, the configuration possibilities for the storage tower become various when combines with iStarUSA HDD Enclosure. Also, with iStarUSA Bridgeboard and Cables, you are able to build a tower with the interface you prefer easily. It is easy, simple, and fast. Just follow the steps below.
1. Choose a tower: 5-bay, 7-bay, 8-bay, or 9-bay tower
5-bay Tower
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7-bay Tower
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8-bay Tower
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9-bay Tower
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2. Select an interface: Multilane (SFF8470), eSATA (Port Multiplier), or miniSAS (SFF8088)
3. Select hard drive cages: iStarUSA provides a variety of hard drive cages for Serial ATA and Serial Attached SCSI hard drives.
4. Select cables: Internal and External cables
5. Final Product: For more samples, please download the pdf file. 
| miniSAS Interface (SFF8088) |
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dAge1240-3MS
12-bay SATA/SAS miniSAS (SFF8088) Tower:
9-bay Tower + SFF8088 x 3 + jAge34R40-MS x 3 + cAge-AAMMMI-H x 3
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dAge840-2MS
8-bay SATA/SAS miniSAS (SFF8088) Tower:
7-bay Tower + SFF8088 x 2 + jAge34R40-MS x 2 + cAge-AAMMMI-H x 2
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dAge440-MS
4-bay SATA/SAS miniSAS (SFF8088) Tower:
5-bay Tower + SFF8088 x 1 + jAge34R40-MS x 1 + cAge-AAMMMI-H x 1
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| Multilane Interface (SFF8470) |
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dAge820T5-ML2
8-bay SATA I/II Multilane (SFF8470) Trayless Tower:
8-bay Tower + SFF8470 x 2 + T5PF-SA x 8 + cAge-SA2SA x 8
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dAge420T5-ML
4-bay SATA I/II Multilane (SFF8470) Trayless Tower:
5-bay Tower + SFF8470 x 1 + T5PF-SA x 4 + cAge-SA2SA x 4
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dAge420T7-ML
4-bay SATA I/II Multilane (SFF8470) Tower:
5-bay Tower + SFF8470 x 1 + T-7-SA x 4 + cAge-SA2SA x 4
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dAge820T7-ML2
8-bay SATA I/II Multilane (SFF8470) Tower:
8-bay Tower + SFF8470 x 2 + T-7-SA x 8 + cAge-SA2SA
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dAge840TL-ML2
8-bay SATA/SAS Multilane (SFF8470) Trayless Tower:
5-bay Tower + SFF8470 x 2 + BPN-350SAS x 1 + BPN-230SAS x1 + cAge-SA2SA x 8
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| eSATA Interface |
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dAge520T5-PM
5-bay SATA I/II eSATA (Port Multiplier) Trayless Tower:
5-bay Tower + eSATA x 1 + T5PF-SA x 5 + cAge-SA2SA x 5
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dAge520T7-PM
5-bay SATA I/II eSATA (Port Multiplier) Tower:
5-bay Tower + eSATA x 1 + T-7-SA x 5 + cAge-SA2SA x 5
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dAge540TL-PM
5-bay SATA/SAS eSATA (Port Multiplier) Trayless Tower:
5-bay Tower + eSATA x 1 + BPN-350SAS x 1 + cAge-SA2SA x 5
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dAge520-PM
5-bay SATA I/II eSATA (Port Multiplier) Tower:
5-bay Tower + eSATA x 1 + BPU-350-SA x 1 + cAge-SA2SA x 5
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dAge420-ES
4-bay SATA I/II eSATA Tower:
5-bay Tower + eSATA x 1 + BPU-340-SA x 1 + cAge-SA2SA x 4
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dAge420T5-ES
4-bay SATA I/II eSATA Trayless Tower:
5-bay Tower + eSATA x 1 + T5PF-SA x 4 + cAge-SA2SA x 4
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dAge420T7-ES
4-bay SATA I/II eSATA Tower:
5-bay Tower + eSATA x 1 + T7-SA x 4 + cAge-SA2SA x 4
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dage1040TL-PM
10-bay SATA I/II eSATA Tower:
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dage124-PM
4-bay 2.5" SATA I/II eSATA Port Multiplier Enclosure
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