ORICO 5 Bay Raid Hard Drive Enclosure Aluminum USB 3.0 to SATA Hard Drive Tray Less Docking Station Max Up to 100TB Support RAID 0/1/3/5/10/JBOD Single Mode, Designed with Safety Lock-9558RU3

I have bought it to use as a periodic backup device, which will be hooked up to my home LAN once in a while for backups. My home LAN has a NAS device which is always online, and has a few TB of data. So I decided not to use RAID for this box, and purchased the model which does not have RAID.I have added two drives to it, each 4TB, and am using software RAID (via btrfs on Linux) to access the storage. I have created a btrfs file system which uses RAID0 for data, RAID1 for metadata, and I'll risk data loss due to disk failure because it's unlikely that both the primary NAS and this backup chassis will have data loss at the same time. I've started with just two drives because I can always extend my file system using the btrfs facility to extend a live file system. The power of Linux btrfs allows me to use this JBOD chassis with such flexibility. If you don't know how to manage a multi-device file system, then it's best that you buy the model which has RAID support.I found the chassis to be very well built. The chassis is heavy and the cooling fan is so silent that I can't hear any sound from it even in a quiet room. The drives went in and sat in their slots firmly, and the quality of the doors and trays, etc seem to be very good. The supplied USB 3.0 cable needs a type A socket in my laptop.I tried testing the write speed by writing 100+ GBytes from my laptop's SSD to the chassis. I got 16.8 Gbytes/minute, which is about 2.5 Gbits/sec, at the application level, given all the overheads of the Linux kernel and the single-threaded copy process. I think this is excellent speed for a disk array with USB 3.Overall, I'm very happy with the product if I want a JBOD chassis.

the ORICO 5 Bay RAID Enclosure is a solid and cost-effective solution for those looking to expand their storage capabilities, especially if you're comfortable with basic RAID setups. It’s ideal for personal media servers, small businesses, or anyone needing a high-capacity external storage option with some RAID flexibility.

This product is exactly what I needed. I wanted to significantly expand my PC storage without the cumbersome process of maintaining several external hdds (which typically have a lower capacity). This model allows a user to plug up to 4 HDDs of 16TB capacity each. It was extremely easy to set up and use. Installation is toolless, and hence you don't need to be a hardware expert to use this. I am using in non RAID configuration, meaning the HDDs are visible to PC as standalone drives. The price tag is quite economical.The only slight downsides of the product were: 1) I felt the power cable was smaller than what I needed and hence had to go for an extension cable. 2) I had to make 2 or 3 attempts at getting the second HDD bay to properly close and make the clicking noise. However, I'm not deducting any star for those as those were minor issues.

This works like a USB Pen drive. Its not a NAS or does it have a Management interface. Just insert disks in the drive bays and then you can use Windows or any other Operating systems Disk Management to Format the disks and start using them.Its good for people who need the extra storage and dont have the space for these disks on their desktops or if they use Laptops.I do not know how the switch off process works, the unmount thing. so I usually shutdown my computer and then switch off the storage.

It is good to add new HDDs and expand tour storage using a single usb cable, but Major Issue, Orico will stop HDDs once no update or change done on any HDD, but once you start doing any changes it will show HDD as blank, even in properties space is used, but cannot see the data. Worst tool to use.

I bought this to use as a RAID enclosure. This particular model does not have HARDWARE RAID options, but I believe you should never use hardware RAID, because if the manufacturer stops making it, you're screwed! As of now, only using it as a JBOD, built using Disk Utility on Mac OS. Will be getting SoftRAID to set it up for my media storage for video production.One thing i noticed was, if you use a Seagate 4TB drive with this enclosure, the height of Seagate drives is not as big as their 2TB ones & also in comparison with the WD ones, so as a result, when you open the door of the enclosure, the pin that is supposed to 'kick out' the drive slips over it and you have to manually pull it out or else you will damage the door! Hope Orico does something about it. Yes, it will be a PITA if you pull out drives regularly, I believe WD drives will fit fine, but they're a lot expensive.Will update after 2-3 months on how it goes!

Got it for 18k. Wanted to use in NAS but didn't worked with Truenas. Truenas was unable to detect drives individually. However unraid is working fine. Overall happy with it, but cost is getting more and more.

at first the drive worked well. Then it started giving me an issue with the hard drive not being detected. I ordered for a replacement and the new piece worked just fine. its been around a month I've been using it. I haven't used it much in this last month. now that I'm trying to backup my data to the new hard drives I purchased. it keeps disconnecting randomly and reconnecting. Im concerned if this will start giving me an issue with my data in the longer run. I already considering throwing this new hub since my return window closed and finding an alternative. 18k wasted.