ORICO External 5bay Hard Drive Enclosure Compatible Thunderbolt 3 4 Only Type C Hub Interface Up to 40Gbps

I have a few much more expensive SATA docks and this dock works just as well as they do! There are some areas they cheaped out like the case and even the SATA connector. I wouldn't trust it not to wear out quickly if you are going to be swapping drives regularly. Some thicker rubber feet for vibration dampening would be nice but not necessary. A higher quality power adapter would be nice as well but all those things would make the price go up to the more expensive options. I'm currently using two of these docks 24/7 on two plex servers while I'm waiting on parts and time to get the permanent servers built. They are never powered off and are used daily by multiple users. No problems. If you are going to be cloning a bunch of drives, spend the money on a quality dock. Otherwise, this might work perfectly for you and you'll save some money. I'd recommend picking up one of those AC Infinity USB desk fans to help cool your drives but it's not necessary, it might prolong the life of the drives though. Read more

The media could not be loaded. Great unit. Fairly quiet even with 5 12TB IronWolf NAS drives operating as a RAID-5 array using SoftRAID Pro. Solid performance, I am getting 750MB write and 1GB read with my setup. Sounds silly, but took one star off due to just how intensely bright the 5 drive LEDs are. I literally took painters tape and stacked FOUR layers and cut a square to tape over each LED. You will be shocked at how bright they are! LOL... I attached a video with side-by-side videos of the enclosure without painter's tape covering the LED (right side) and with FOUR layers of painters tape covering the LED. Incredible (not in a good way). Read more

Time will tell but this seems to work well as a truenas das attached to a thunderbolt capable mini-pc. Truenas is restrictive on thunderbolt and I had to add a udev override to authorize it. After a month I like this thing. Hot swap capable, smart capable, getting full throughput on 5 disk array. Read more

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The cooling arrangment is efficient when all the slots are filled. There are no trays which would reduce heat transfer. But there are no blanks provided to better guide airflow when not all slots are in use. Unfortunately, the front bay closure mechanism is made entirely of plastic. The mechanical design is actually nice but it is questionable how long it will stand up to regular use let alone any rough handling. Read more

Very pleased , easy setup on my MAC fast response to drive access love that it is tb4 really wish it tb5 but can't have every thing. also thanks for the fast delivery . Read more

The enclosure is fairly nice; beefy aluminum. The drive sleds are a bit cheap and flimsy but do the job. Worked with TB4 under Linux, right out of the gate - with zero issues thus far. Have not tried daisy chaining. Speeds for spinning drives are as expected (have not tried SSDs). Would have been nice to have RAID included, but I used software (Linux MD RAID). You might get a "whirring" vibration noise, which is easily fixed by making sure all the sleds are in tight. Would buy again, would recommend. Not too many options in TB land for HDDs that aren't ridiculously priced. Read more

Con #1: junk included cable and/or device's USB-C port. Initially the drive acted as if not attached to my desktop. Connecting to either USB-C or USB-A port on my machine did not help. Given that these ports were working just fine literally 5 minutes ago, there were only 3 possibilities: faulty USB cable, bad device USB port, or broken device. When I was about to get to my stash of USB cables, I recalled the fourth possibility. Cable orientation. Everyone knows that USB-C cables could be rotated 180 degrees. The cables and ports are two sided. Unless somebody decided to save few cents and have only one side wired. Smart, isn't it? And after rotating USB-C connector attached to the device everything worked flawlessly. Con #2: tiny, dim, blue LED light is hard to see -- and some very creative engineer decided to place the LED so that it will be nearly impossible to find. It looks like that engineer is a former "hide and seek" champion. I am impressed. Con #3: price. The device is certainly not cheap. Something tells me it is overpriced by $7-$10, but who am I to tell that? Apparently, some (myself included) are buying it... Con #4: the length of included cable. It is embarrassingly short. You see, thin copper wires and PVC insulation are so expensive now that no one can afford anymore cables of reasonable, usable length. Pros: everything else. The enclosure handles 18 TB fast disks without any issues. I was able to easily achieve 250-260 MB/s transfers. No problems whatsoever. Thanks! Read more