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Pros & Cons
Pros
Crystal clear case allows you to see your drive as well as its components. Nice carrying case for portable use. Works perfect with owc solid state drive. Works with my ssd crucial perfectly.
Durable polycarbonate shell holds up well under day-to-day use. They're easy to assemble. Easy to install, love the performance and looks.
Owc makes superior products. As is typical for owc products, outstanding quality. It replaces a fw800 enclosure that i could no longer use with my new macbook air which is usb-c.
Cons
The light comes on but there is no mounting of the hard drive on the computer. Really irritating. It works via firewire 800, but not usb 3.
Highlights
Quality
Excellent quality - best enclosure available !
This external drive case is the top-of-the-line product at a middle-of-line price.
But if you want to protect a mechanical hard drive that gets carried around in your backpack, this is as rugged as it gets for ... Read More
(btw - 1 star reviews below are due to user error, not a faulty product.
Price
It was a good price and quick delivery.
You would be hard pressed to find anything better at this price.
Shipping
1 gen 1 is fast (more than fast enough for any hdd.
Competitiveness
I put a 1tb samsung 840 evo-series ssd in my enclosure and was able to connect it to my retina macbook pro in less than 10 minutes.
I'm using it with a crucial mx300 sata ssd.
Other world computing (owc) products are always high quality, and easy to use.
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easy, great, external, nice and quality. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 57 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 3 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I thought it was less bulky than the pictures
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Less likely to be a easily assembled and disassembled if youre going to swap drives in and out frequently
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However the hdd installation is a bit tedious
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Only way to be perfectly safe is get it from owc or search reviews
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The other world computing website has a nice video of the installation process
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
While connected to a macbook pro late 2016 i can confirm the optional dc plug wall outlet adapter is not required it draws power from the computer
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
May bottleneck ssds but not by much compatible with drives up to 12
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