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P/N:  qBOX-F - Overview

A low cost solution to home or SOHO back up storage demanding up to 8 Terabyte of storage space with a footprint of 5.25"x 10.25" smaller than the area of letter size piece of paper and 7.25' tall. The most compact enclosure in the market, the qBOX-F connects up to four (4) 3.5" IDE or SATA* hard drives a via single Firewire400/800 host connection

The qBOX-F has a built-in high-performance FireWire 800 (1394b) bridge board with 1394 payload of 4096 instead of 2048, and support 48-bit sector addressing (138GB+ HDD). With such specifications there are no HDD size restriction limitations.

Any FOUR 3.5" HDD (no size limitation) devices can be easily, quickly and reliably converted to plug-and-play high speed FireWire 800/1394b, up to 800Mb/s

(*) SATA to IDE adapter required


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qBOX-F Key Features
  • Smallest Four Drive FireWire 800/IEEE-1394b Enclosure
  • No Hard drive size limitation - 48-bit addressing
  • Most Compact, low noise, and better heat dissipation
  • Hardware RAID Level 0 (Stripe) and Level 1 (Mirror) support
  • Programmable RAID 0, SAPN, or JOBO
  • Firmware setting program included
  • Any OS suport Firewire bus

qBOX-F is a low cost solution to home, SOHO or back-up storage demanding up to multi-tera-byte of storage space with a footprint of 5.25"x 7.25" x 10.25" (WxHxD), the most compact enclosure in the market, qBOX-F connecting up to four (4) 3.5" IDE or SATA* hard drives via singel FireWire 800 ( FireWire 400 compatible) connection providing a the convenient of hot-plug capability.

,br>DAT Optic Inc.'s qBOX-F is one of the latest series of FOUR 3.5" IDE/SATA drive FireWire 800 (1394b) metal enclosure, which can be program into a RAID 0, SPAN or JBOD mode, the whole enclosure measure as: 5.25" (W), 7.25" (H) and 10.25" (D), one of the smallest enclsoure for four hard drives


The qBOX-F has a built-in high-performance FireWire 800 (1394b) bridge board with 1394 payload of 4096 instead of 2048, and support 48-bit sector addressing (138GB+ HDD). With such specifications there are no HDD size restriction limitations.


Any FOUR 3.5" HDD (no size limitation) devices can be easily, quickly and reliably converted to plug-and-play high speed FireWire 800/1394b, up to 800Mb/s

Note: (*) requires SATA to IDE converter

Note: Due to limitation 32bit OS some systems may not access beyond 2.0TB volume

How to get around the 2.0TB volume limitation

Configuration of RAID 0, SPAN or JBOD can easily program to our firmware uploader (included in CD-ROM)

How to Create RAID 10 in MAC OS 10.x

Our qBOX-F offers a unique opportunity for OEM or ODM to continue to take advantage of the low cost IDE HDD while presenting high performance (800mbps transfer rate), hot plug-able devices into the brand new and expanding 1394b/FireWire market.

If you are interesting to OEM this product please contact sales@DATOptic.com


Note: (*) requires SATA to IDE converter

Package contents:
• 1x qBOX-F enclosure
• 1x 2.0 meter 1394b cables
• 1x AC power cable
• 1x bag of screw set
• 1x CD - User manual and Firmware Flash

Part Number: qBOX-F Four (4)3.5" Drive FireWire 800 Enclosure
Physical Mount Space Up to four physical 3.5" drives
Operating System: Any OS support FireWire bus
IDE Interface: Up to Four IDE HDDs or or
SATA drive*
IEEE 1394 Interface: IEEE 1394-1995, IEEE 1394a compliant
Support data transfer rate up to 100, 200, 400 MBps
SBP-2 Target
Revision 4 compliant
Cooling: Metal case and 80mm low noise fan
Operating Temperature: 0o C to 50o C
Operating Humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing
Dimensions: 5.25"x 7.25" x 10.25" (WxHxD)
Connectors: 9-pin IEEE 1394b connector x 2
Power connector x 1
On/Off switch x 1
Power Supply: 90-265VAC 50/60Hz; 150W Output Power

Documents and Software

qBOX-F Config Program Download

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