ORICO Daisy Chain 4 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure USB 3 2 Gen 2 Aluminum Das Enclosure USB C

I got the 9948C3 model, and I don't have any issues during transfers. Did a few TB rsync and no dropouts. Speed is good (haven't yet actually benchmarked it). Kernel 6.16.9 on a USB 3.2 port: [ 1960.093777] usb 4-1: new SuperSpeed Plus Gen 2x1 USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd [ 1960.135865] usb 4-1: New USB device found, idVendor=2109, idProduct=0822, bcdDevice= 6.b3 [ 1960.135887] usb 4-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 1960.135895] usb 4-1: Product: USB3.1 Hub [ 1960.135901] usb 4-1: Manufacturer: VIA Labs, Inc. [ 1960.135906] usb 4-1: SerialNumber: 000000001 My only complaint until now is that I have an older hard drive (2TB SAMSUNG HD203WI) that doesn't work in the enclosure. The drive starts to spin and then sounds bad like resetting and starting again, the heads move back to park on and on, and you need to take it out to prevent damage. I've tested with 5 different drives older and newer. WD 750Gb 7200rpm, Seagate 500Gb, WD 3TB, Seagate IronWolf 8TB 5400 rpm and they all work fine, just the Samsung doesn't (although the spinup amperage isn't that higher than the rest). Read more

I bought this enclosure because my old computer was running Windows 10 and i wanted to upgrade. The old computer was old school with multiple SATA storage drive slots for storage and DVD Players. The new computers didn't have that, so I needed something external. This fit the bill quite nicely. It's fast enough for me, way faster than the old computer. I have had no issues with it. I wish the power button was on the front side, though. As far as the unit itself, the drawers are easily removed and installed. I do have to unscrew the drives if i want to change them out. a snap fit would be better. opverall i rate this as a quality item and would buy it again if i needed. Read more

I have tried 2 different Orico enclosures they kept disconnecting even when in use. Returned it and brought Terramaster which is working perfectly fine zero issues. Read more

Skip to REVIEW for a regular review. ORICO Daisy Chain 4 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure (Model 9948C3) uses a VL817 chipset which appears to have a buggy UAS implementation (in my own observations and other reports online, including LKML). Under heavy and sustained write loads, drives are prone to drop from the USB bus (including loss of drive status LED on the enclosure itself) until the enclosure power is reset (not just a host reboot or unplug/replug). Disabling UAS reduced my drive throughput, while greatly improving stability. The amount of performance reduction will depend on your workload. The device is still detected at 10Gbps - the loss in performance is due to the overhead of older, sequential BOT vs. the newer UAS protocol. Disabling UAS on Ubuntu Linux (as root): `echo options usb-storage quirks=2109:0715:u >/etc/modprobe.d/ignore_uas.conf; update-initramfs -u`. Instructions for Windows can be found online. Ubuntu Linux 24.04.1 LTS 6.11.0-24-generic #24~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC x86_64 REVIEW Despite the buggy firmware described above, I'm still keeping this device as it meets my needs in a way that no other devices on the market would otherwise (Amazon US, Apr 2025) . I don't need to put 12 SATA SSDs behind a single USB port often... in fact needing to do so is extremely rare. But that's what I need today due to a large data migration. I could get by with multiple enclosures and a USB 3.2 hub, but the integrated hubs on these devices are quite conveniant. I opted for USB enclosures over SATA/SAS for the flexibility. Once this data migration is done, I'll be left with three decent USB-SATA enclosures that I can use on their own, or re-combine in the future. My expectation is that they would be stable (even with UAS enabled) when used for normal desktop or read-heavy workloads, requiring no special configuration. I have no complaints about build quality, or even the plastic trays. At this pricepoint, the build quality exceeded my expectations. The power button is a physical toggle button that depressed when "on", and therefore will come back online after a power outage (unlike at least one other device in this category). Least important to me (but most important to my wife) - These three enclosures look real nice stacked beside a GeekPi 10in rack. Read more

I put four 24 TB hard drives in the 9948C3 to use as a ZFS pool with Raid Z2. Everything works as expected even though the manual says it only works with up to 22 TB drives. Installing hard drives was trivially easy and I've been able to write to the pool at 400 MB/s. Only quirk is that it seems that the supplied USB C cable is directional and only works if the end that's convertible to USB A is connected to the computer. Read more

1 of the bays was dead out of the box and after running for a few days another bay died. Also found USB drops signal and unit has to be rebooted often. Read more

If you don't mind tiny drive indicator lights, this is an easy setup, and worked solidly as a drive chassis. If I needed this still, I would buy one again in a heartbeat. Read more

Easy setup, set to raid 5 and just worked. Would buy again, again Read more