ORICO Direct US Store via Amazon has
Orico External USB 3.0 to SATA Hard Drive Docking Station (ORICO-6518US3-V2-UK-BK-BP) on sale for $29.95 - $11.98 (40%) off when you apply promo code
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$17.97.
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Product Details:
- USB 3.0 and the UASP protocol to achieve blistering data transfer speeds up to 5Gbps, significantly faster than standard USB 3.0.
- Fully backward compatible with USB 2.0/1.1
- Supports both 2.5" and 3.5" SATA I/II/III HDDs and SSDs with a single drive capacity of up to 24TB
- 180 Degree Heat Dissipation
- Tool Free Installation
- Compatibility: Windows XP/7/8/10/11, Linux, Mac OS 9.1 and higher
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For most people it is safer to just have each drive in its own enclosure, unless you just have a lot of drives.
and in today's market, thats a lot of $$$. Replacement costs surely outweigh just having separate enclosures for safety.
this to me is a better deal. It comes out a little bit cheaper, but it actually has a cover. if you hate it that much, just dont use it, but at least one exists for you to use.
For most people it is safer to just have each drive in its own enclosure, unless you just have a lot of drives.
and in today's market, thats a lot of $$$. Replacement costs surely outweigh just having separate enclosures for safety.
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That said, their advertisement for the unit is funny. It says up to 24tb, but then in one of the images, it shows a 30tb... worse yet, its a 30TB SAS drive and then says "universal compatibility". ...
Now if it were true that this dock supported SAS to USB, this would actually be a good deal...
That said, their advertisement for the unit is funny. It says up to 24tb, but then in one of the images, it shows a 30tb... worse yet, its a 30TB SAS drive and then says "universal compatibility". ...
Now if it were true that this dock supported SAS to USB, this would actually be a good deal...
Thanks for the insight. I did find it pretty funny that everyone is showing a WD Red drive as their example. I know mounting it as a standard drive (e.g. think a boot drive) is problematic, or at least it was in the past where you had to potentially cover pins. Well I have a Red drive that I want to use, so something good to try this on.
I guess if you want multiple drive you need a NAS or are their reliable USB type devices that support multiple drives. Most I have seen get marginally mid to higher reviews.. Ahy suggestions?
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I guess if you want multiple drive you need a NAS or are their reliable USB type devices that support multiple drives. Most I have seen get marginally mid to higher reviews.. Ahy suggestions?
There's a few out there, I'd recommend you at least look at one that has active cooling. There are ones with other features (JBOD/raid/etc) built into them, but I haven't (nor wanted to) play with those. Get at least a 3 bay, makes for better ZFS if you want to, and you can also chuck in your older hard drives you arent using to get a second life on them.
If you want, you can get hardware raids on these enclosures and they use less bandwidth (controller does the splitting work, gains are especially more noticeable in a mirror )
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