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Daisy Chain Capability
Customers are highly satisfied with the daisy chain capability of the hard drive enclosure, allowing them to connect multiple enclosures together for expanded storage capacity. This feature has been crucial for their continuous use in home servers and NAS systems.
Data Transfer Speed
Customers are highly satisfied with the data transfer speed of the ORICO Daisy-Chain 5 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure, reporting top speeds around 300Mbps when writing to all drives simultaneously. The enclosure is also capable of functioning as a NAS with the use of a computer for networking.
Usb Connections
Customers generally have positive feedback regarding the reliable USB connections and ease of installation and use with both Windows and Mac computers. However, some users have reported issues with the enclosure's drive bays popping open unexpectedly.
Direct Attached Storage Solution
Customers have generally positive opinions towards the ORICO Daisy-Chain 5 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure as a direct attached storage solution for their large capacity needs. The enclosure is praised for its high-quality material, ease of use, and ability to accommodate multiple hard drives. However, some customers note that it does not support hardware RAID configurations.
Highlights
Quality
The material used to built is impressive , i can tell right away it will go a long way due to metallic enclosure, this is neede... Read More
The heavy aluminum construction, acting as a heat sink, coupled with the fan keeps my drives cool while running.
While it's clear that products with pin selections support raid setups, this feature isn't available on this device.
You can set this up to work like a nas but it will require a computer that's running the networking for it.
Price
Too bad they didnt spring for extra 50 cents for a better one.
I do think at this price point you can add a network port and make it into a nas device too but no big deal , you can always sh... Read More
Competitiveness
Apparently, you can also diasy chain connect another external of the same maker/brand.
Overall, i like this and it's cheaper than prebuilt nas solutions while allowing you to setup similar functionality if you know... Read More
Overview
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 31.2% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 30 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 21 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Direct attached storage solutions are great when you need more storage dont want numerous external drives plugged in seperately or maybe you just want easy redundency without having to buy another server or nas
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This is currently being useds as redundency for a 4 drive nas
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Even more simple if you just want this as a giant multi drive enclosure at that point its just a big external drive enclosure with usb type c 3
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The advertisement doesnt distinctly state that it lacks raid capabilities but once you try to set it up youll quickly realize it has limited flexibility in terms of drive management
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The instructions are a bit confusing since they cover multiple product offerings from the company
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
While its clear that products with pin selections support raid setups this feature isnt available on this device
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Things get a little misleading when you look at the model number and support information—it suggests that their raid manager software should work
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However on both mac and pc platforms this software doesnt recognize the drives in this enclosure
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