4-Bay Orico RAID Hard Drive Enclosure for 3.5" SATA HDDs (Up to 88TB storage)

Stinger0

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I'm new to this and don't care about performance, just want a central file sever to store all valuable files and photos with backup. Can I run this off a n100 mini pic and it's pretty much plug and play? I'm not interested in going down the rabbit whole of learning a new skill set on RAID setups, I just want something easy.

Last edited by Stinger0 June 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM.

T3QN1K

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T3QN1K

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Can this be used with hard drives that have different capacities? Not concerned about redundancy. Thank you.

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pandy00

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pandy00

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Quote from Oil_Burner

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This thing failed on me with ZFS, then failed again. Might be good for other filesystems, but unreliable for ZFS. Could be the USB 3.0 interface.

Someone smarter than me could probably explain it better.

For zfs, go jbod. Also USB does something weird to the drives... My schucked drives have no issues... The one I left in the usb enclosure to use as backup has had a few weird disconnect issues (same internal drives).

justye

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justye

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Quote from Stinger0

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I'm new to this and don't care about performance, just want a central file sever to store all valuable files and photos with backup. Can I run this off a n100 mini pic and it's pretty much plug and play? I'm not interested in going down the rabbit whole of learning a new skill set on RAID setups, I just want something easy.

If you set it up without RAID, it should essentially be plug and play. It would be like plugging in an external drive. Based on most people's complaints, I would recommend Terramaster or UGreen, but for your needs this should work fine, assuming it's reliable.

NathanS4019

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NathanS4019

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I have a couple Orico "brand" external hard drive bays. Its all kinda the same cheap chinese AliExpress stuff. China makes highend gear, but this falls under the junk bin category you can find on Ali for $50 before the tarrifs.
Mine work fine mostly but disconnect occasionally and are very very slow. This is usb 3.0. I would not trust this as external raid box. If it was just a sata splitter I could manage Id be interested, but usb 3.0 blegh no thanks.

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dagadu

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dagadu

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There was no love when it was $104. Why would anyone bite at this price??

https://slickdeals.net/share/iphone_app/t/18302692

Zeo

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Zeo

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Quote from dagadu

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There was no love when it was $104. Why would anyone bite at this price??https://slickdeals.net/share/iphone_app/t/18302692

That's the non-raid version.

EfficientSwing6349

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EfficientSwing6349

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Anyone know if you can plug this into a raspi and have it connect to all the HDDs? I'm looking for something to put some data I don't need fast access to, and have an old pi kicking around that i could make use of.

namlook

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namlook

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Quote from FrugalBrutal

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I bought two different Orico ensures and returned both. Performance was not good. Slow transfer speeds. Hard Drives wouldn't be recognized. No bueno.

Hard drives not recognized sounds like you got a defective one. What transfer speed did you get with a 5gbps connection?

gobaers

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gobaers

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People, don't trust some random bottom barrel chip to do RAID processing for you, especially in the era of cheap SSDs. I'd only get this if you need to spin rust on a tight budget, for large but slow storage, and let software handle the drive redundancy.

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frerk

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frerk

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190x.6-40=74 =/= 114?

And how exactly are you convincing it to apply all of the coupons?

DerProfi

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DerProfi

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If you value your data, you don't put it on an external USB RAID box.

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nodinero

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nodinero

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Quote from SensibleWing4509

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For those like me who want JBOD and would happily buy without RAID: The one with RAID shows $121 (after tax) at checkout. The one without says $135 despite starting at a far lower cost.

Quick Edit: I'll probably still be skipping due to being USB 3.0 and all of my most recent machines having 3.2 (3.1 Gen 2). Unless someone more knowledgeable (at least than me at 2am) knows this doesn't matter with SATA 3?

I'm building a new server and using a similar desktop attached storage for the mass storage. I'm dedicating a M.2 SSD on the motherboard as a disk cache so I can max out my network speed and then let the SSD offload the data in the background to the hard drives in the enclosure so I don't have to sit around waiting for transfers to complete.

nodinero

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nodinero

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Quote from gobaers

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People, don't trust some random bottom barrel chip to do RAID processing for you, especially in the era of cheap SSDs. I'd only get this if you need to spin rust on a tight budget, for large but slow storage, and let software handle the drive redundancy.

Agreed! I was hellbent on getting an enclosure with on-board RAID but found that if the RAID chip fails at some point you typically must put your existing drives into a new enclosure with the SAME RAID chip to get access again! If that failure happens years down the line, good luck finding the same enclosure using the same chip or figuring out what chip is in a new enclosure! That's less of an issue with major brands who use this requirement to lock you into their ecosystem but small brands don't guarantee anything.

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seasky1

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seasky1

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Quote from nodinero

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Agreed! I was hellbent on getting an enclosure with on-board RAID but found that if the RAID chip fails at some point you typically must put your existing drives into a new enclosure with the SAME RAID chip to get access again! If that failure happens years down the line, good luck finding the same enclosure using the same chip or figuring out what chip is in a new enclosure! That's less of an issue with major brands who use this requirement to lock you into their ecosystem but small brands don't guarantee anything.

Agree, my Mediasonic pro-raid (raid 5) box failed on me 6 months ago. the pro-raid box is no longer supported. I am still trying to recover the 10TB of data.

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4-Bay Orico RAID Hard Drive Enclosure for 3.5" SATA HDDs (Up to 88TB storage)

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