ORICO 5Bay Hard Drive Enclosure Type-C to SATA 3.5inch
ORICO 5Bay Hard Drive Enclosure Type-C to SATA 3.5inch Enclosure Magnetic Tool-Free External HDD SSD Enclosure Storage Case Built-in Fan for Data Backup, NAS Expansion Up to 80TB(5×16) – DS500C3
Honeycomb Helps the Heat Dissipation
The honeycomb of orico 5 bay usb enclosure designed on the rear panel, which can helps the air flow and efficient heat dissipation, keeps your hard drives stay in a proper tempreture and prolong the service life of your hard drive.
Tool-free Installation
Designed 8 chips magneticon the cover, no any tools needed, you can easily to install your hard disks in the SATA usb enclosure. The magnetics doesn’t cause any impact to the HDD, please rest assured that.
Built in Fan
A cooling fan built in the 5-bay external hard drive case, and the honeycomb heat dissipation holes designed on the rear panel can keep your hard drives cool for extensive use.
| Dimensions: | 30.7 x 24.4 x 18.4 cm; 2.21 Kilograms |
| Model: | 5 Bay Type-C |
| Manufacture: | ORICO Technologies Co.,Ltd |
| Dimensions: | 30.7 x 24.4 x 18.4 cm; 2.21 Kilograms |
| Origin: | China |
I take photos videos all the time and consequently I have mountains of data. As a result I have a number of external hard drives. Using this gadget I have literally tidied my work area beyond recognition, got rid of 5 usb cables and 5 power points. All now sitting in a little box, with a nice small foot print and with ventilation. Love it. So easy to use.
The unit looks really nice. That’s the GOOD part. The USB 3.0 cable only seems able to go at around 45MB/S instead of the 150MB/S. I’m thinking the USB cable probably needs to be changed out. The UGLY is that the unit turns off and it can take up to almost an hour for it to go back to working. Now. How to fix this problem? EASY – you create a SCHEDULED TASK. All you do is to make the task do a DIR command (Windows) or an LS command (Mac/Linux). Make the task run once every 10 minutes as a HIDDEN command. This will do a listing of one of the disk drives which means the drive has to be up and running AND it will reset the timer thus making the drive stay on line and keep working without a problem. The DIR/LS commands are so quick you won’t even notice it is running. (Takes about 10 milliseconds to run.) Last, I just want to say, I DO HOPE other companies are taking notes. If you want your device to do something like this – THEN OFFER IT AS AN OPTION SO YOU CAN TURN IT ON OR OFF. Got it? Great! Have a nice day! (You can do a search for how to set up a Scheduled Task for your system.)
p.s. to install 2.5 HDD you will need to additional brackets which is sold separately. It would be helpful if this was made clear.
I haven’t seen any reviews for this item so I took a chance getting it.
Easy to install, but the fan is quite loud when running the enclosure so use it on a shelf or the floor, but not on your desk.
It is not the fastest I’ve used but it works, and seems stable. This enclosure should not be used for working drives, rather use it for backups.
Used on Mac OS and no issues other than the speed which isn’t a deal breaker if used correctly.
80 Tb (5×16), c’est l’idal pour autant de disque !! Parfait rien dire. Pas de bruit ni surchauffe !
Transfer speeds circa 36-40MB/s which is a lot better than a standard single SATA external drives which top out about 5-10MB/s – Noise is not as bad as previous reviewers have stated – Reasonably quiet in my view and a neat well designed enclosure to boot.
All in all a pretty good device for the price point – I would be interested if ORICO extended this unit as a 4 drive unit as I have several spare drives after upgrading my NAS to 6TB drives rather than 4TB capacity
Recommended purchase
I hand a few SEAGATE external, 3 8TB and a 10TB. So I took off the casing of the external to get the hard drive inside of it. But I was worried that when I stick it in this bay it would of ask to format. To my surprise when I stuck it in the same drive letter came up that was previous. The transfer rate is fast from hard to hard in the same bay. Clicking between hard drive is faster than before. Hot swapping between hard drive is a bit disappointed because any hard drive you pull out or stick in well restart the whole bay itself as of you switch it off and put it back on. As other reviewers said it runs a bit on the hot side so to be safe I’m going to modify it with a extraction fan to the top. But on the whole same reviewers exaggerate about the heat if it’s running that hot is because you have a faulty hard drive. I give it five stars because it is working like I wanted it to be. Will update this review on durability.