ORICO 2 Bay 3.5 Inch Hard Drive Enclosure USB C Magnetic Tool-Free External HDD Enclosure Supports UASP with 12V/4A Power Adapter for Family Storage Expansion Up to 36TB(2x18) - DS200C3

I bought this to add two drives to an existing QNAP NAS which I installed Ubuntu on, as a way to have software RAID for long term file storage. Adding the drives, plugging it in, and powering it up was easy. The drives dropped in, the top is magnetic, so just sits on it, and upon plugging in, both drives were recognized.UASP and hdparm commands work, so the hard disks I bought, which were self-encrypting drives, were able to be erased before I added data to them. This worked flawlessly.An enclosure, when it works, it works well and something one takes for granted. For the past several weeks, I've been using it with extremely heavy disk I/O moving Borg backup archives , I have to export data from a tar file, import it, which means it gets compressed/deduplicated, which can take days per terabyte at the highest compression level. So far, even though USB speeds are relatively slow, it is working well enough, and I've had no errors, even when running ZFS scrubs.If you need a DAS enclosure for two drives and have a machine that can do software RAID, this is definitely something to consider. USB 3.x isn't going to win any speed records... but for data that is intended to be on an archive and seldom used, but still available, it works well enough.Definitely would buy again.

Thing this is hot garbage. The fans were installed upside down, so it over heated my drives and cooked them up. Now I have two 14tb drives that are corrupted. Would not recommend.

I needed some extra storage for my NAS and had some spare HHD's sitting around I purchased this and it works great. I just plugged it into my PC it saw the device I was able to format the drives and then I just added it to my NAS. This was a life saver for me to cheaply add storage to my devices for Photo and movie storage.

I ordered the usb-c model to use with two WD 6TB HDDs and 2018 MacBook Pro. Transfer rates seem to be as advertised. It took an hour to transfer 850Gb from my Thunderbolt 3 SSD drive.The fan is quiet and not noticeable. I deducted a star due to dives heating up and needing to remove the magnetic cover and place external fan for cooling. To be fair, the overheating occurred during the constant writing to both drives (RAID 1 configuration) during the hour it took to transfer 850Gb. It is too early to tell if overheating will be a problem during normal daily use.Update: After using for two weeks (with the lid off) the drives did get quite hot and I had to use an external fan to keep them cool durring daily normal use. Ultimately I returned the product and purchased the following enclosure by the same manufacturer:ORICO 2 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure USB C Plug and Play DAS Backup with 12V/4A Power Adapter Maximum 2*22TB Storage for Personal Local Database - 9728C3Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZL6J417?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Body of the review:I had some initial difficulties with the product, but ORICO's customer service was excellent and helped me resolve the issue quickly. Despite these initial challenges, I am very satisfied with the ORICO 2 Bay 3.5 Inch Hard Drive Enclosure USB C. It meets all my expectations and has provided me with a reliable and easy-to-use storage solution.The enclosure is sturdy and well-built, and the hard drive bays are easy to access. The transfer speed is fast and consistent, and I have not had any problems with the USB-C connection. The design is also sleek and modern, making it an attractive addition to my desk.Overall, I am very satisfied with the ORICO 2 Bay 3.5 Inch Hard Drive Enclosure USB C and would recommend it to anyone looking for a reliable and easy-to-use storage solution. ORICO is a company that cares about customer satisfaction and offers excellent customer service.

I have bought two of these devices and I have to say I would give them zero stars if possible. I have several different types of hard drive bay systems and thought with one sounded good and gave it a try. So far between two of these I have ordered one of them has corrupted my boot table on the hard drives twice causing me to lose all my data of both hard drives and the other unit has done the same thing once so far. I have also bought three 5bay systems from Sabrent and all of them have been working great. Do yourself a favor and do not buy this produce. Will be posting this same review on the other device I bought. The devices were each on a different computer so it is not the PC that is the issue but the bay drive itself. They lasted about three weeks before the first one corrupted the drives. the second unit and second time these bays corrupted the drives happened about week and a half later. Will not buy ORICO produces in the future.

I moved from a conventional desktop to a mini setup. I had terabytes of information on hdd that I needed to access. This enclosure is perfect for that purpose. I just popped the drives in, plugged in the USB and the information was right there. Only issues I've had is that the fan is noticeable but not loud. A great product at a great price.

Fan failed just today at a little under of year of owning.Worked great before then. Fans seems replaceable but i shouldn't have to do that after only a year of running.