What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
Terramaster d5 thnderbolt 3 5-bay external hard drive enclosure. Comes with included tools for the install. Pleaseinitialize and format the disks to use. Purchased for an imac. Tb to be backed up (in about 5hrs) with no eject errors.
It is built well, quiet (except for hd spinning) and solved my "improperly ejected" problem from another dock. With the exception of it not recognizing drives early, i am happy with the unit but it would reduce customer hassles and returns if they per... Read More
Cons
Both hard drives in the unit are inaccesssable, so there is no backup i can rely on. Tried 2 different macbook pros and swapped cables with 2 different caldigit devices but still does not detect. And they both exhibit the same behavior and cannot be d... Read More
Used it lightly over the course of 3 months. After to speaking to their less then knowledgeable support. Beware this product.
Highlights
Quality
Build quality is good, and having the extra ports really helps (especially if you're using this with one of the new m1 macs).
We are very happy with the r6s and i wish i had not tried to save money on a budget enclosure.
The unit is quiet except when it's writing to disk, then there's a lot of clicking that has to do with the disc drives, not the enclosure.
With the exception of it not recognizing drives early, i am happy with the unit but it would reduce customer hassles and return... Read More
Competitiveness
5tb to be backed up (in about 5hrs) with no eject errors.
Works well on my win10 system with rfs storage spaces mirror raid.
I then performed speed tests with blackmagic disk speed test and found similar read & write speeds to my other dock at about 50... Read More
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- This product had a total of 141 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 26 2023.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I had an issue with it suddenly not mounting after one year of use which freaked me out
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Customer service mentioned something perhaps being loose in the casing so rather than having me take it apart they kindly sent me a new unit
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Many reviews talked about the noise from this unit
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Id recommend if this would be your first raid storage device
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It is not the fastest array but it is no turtle either
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The last two disk enclosures i had were made out of plastic
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I wanted to use a thunderbolt 3 faster interface than my network attached storage that wasn’t fast enough
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However when i received it i was unable to get it to recognize any of the drives tested
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