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Pros

Using as a container for separately mounted drives, the performance is very good. The fan is quiet -- sound level is about what you'd expect from just the drives spinning. I would have liked to see a slightly quieter solution - maybe a few mils thicke...  Read More

This enclosure uses the asmedia chipset rather than the cheap garbage jmicron chipset. Works great on an imac running catalina. Works well with synology nas hyper backup. It has a torrent client. It acts as raid mode 1.

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Quality


This is a well made setup and i am very pleased with it.


From how quiet this drive array operates, to how nice it looks and how well it all fits together, its apparent that this is a q...  Read More


The “smart” fan would have me believe that the speed(and noise) of the 60mm cooling fan was controlled by the amount of heat re...  Read More


The rubberized feed on the bottom of this enclosure are super thick and i do not feel vibration transferred to my computer desk...  Read More

Price


For the price you can't beat it.


I am happy with it for the cost.


The stock fan was kind of cheap.

Shipping


Once i contacted them, they quickly shipped a replacement.


Still haven't received it yet, but i'm sure after all the testing they did on this one before shipping it out that it will work fine.

Packaging/appearance


It was packaged well and includes all the parts one would need to get it up and running.

Competitiveness


Bought this to work in conjunction with an intel nuc running as a plex server.


This enclosure uses the asmedia chipset rather than the cheap garbage jmicron chipset.


This is likely most appropriate for something that is not more up intensive than accessing a couple drives concurrently because...  Read More


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  • This product had a total of 347 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 4 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Note that i did not use the builtin hardware raid 1 controller


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Instead i left it in 34standard34 mode and built a linux software mdadm raid 1 configuration


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    That way if there ever is a problem or the enclosure dies i can pull the drives out and drop them into another enclosure


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Other than that the original build of the mirror took around 14 hours and i reached over to feel how warm the enclosure was about midway through


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    As long as it lasts its checking every other box id want


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Do not have the 220tb drives i ordered in for a few more days so i removed a 20tb drive from my system and installed it


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Mine was apparently a return at some point


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The case screws were installed and two were slightly stripped on the heads the dip switches were in set to raid 1

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