Pros & Cons
Pros
The enclosure runs quietly and cool, with its 2 fans. The drives wake and sleep individually, as needed. It's quite noisy but we can live with that. Terramaster says the fans change depending on the temperature of the disks.
Cons
Server software is reporting excessively hot disks in all 4 bays of this unit. Ir temp sensor confirms this. Internal fans do not seem to be speeding up to reduce the case temp.
Highlights
Quality
It does the job i wanted and i'm satisfied.
I did have to 'take ownership' as previously the drives had been attached via an e-sata adaptor linux can be a little 'geeky' i... Read More
Competitiveness
I don't use huge drives my standard archive is a 1tb wd blue and i have three installed.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However i have had 4 45 degree disks running operations in this enclosure and the fans have very little impact on cooling
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If youre planning on buying this device to serve a nas solution i would recommend an external cooling solution to the cabinet or room its ran in
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Fans are barely audible above other equipent noise and keep the hdds cool enough to operate without problem 40°c
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I dare not try the hot swapping whilst other drives active given theres no per drive power button
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Initially nothing would mount and whilst the drives picked up power and were recognised my computer was slow and reluctant to mount the drives
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This turned out to be caused by the need for a sys restart
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I purchased this unit because it is configured to operate in jbod mode
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I mistakenly thought the unit would ship with usb3ctype to usb3ctype lead it doesnt the lead supplied was usb3a to usb3c so not exactly what i had hoped