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frontpagethethingx posted Aug 21, 2026 5:18 PM
ORICO 5-Bay DAS USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure for 3.5" SATA HDDs
$120
$200
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ORICO Direct US Store via Amazon has ORICO 5-Bay DAS USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure for 3.5" SATA HDDs (9858U3; Aluminum Alloy) on sale for $199.99 - $80 off when you apply promo code B01RDG65 at checkout = $119.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member thethingx for sharing this deal.
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- 5-bay HDD enclosure accommodates 3.5-inch SATA disks with maximum storage capacity up to 110TB
- USB 3.0 interface, transfer speed reaches up to 235MB/s
- Aluminum HDD case is outfitted with an 80mm silent cooling fan, as well as front and rear vents
- Includes safety locking mechanism
- 150W power supply
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ORICO Direct US Store via Amazon has ORICO 5-Bay DAS USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure for 3.5" SATA HDDs (9858U3; Aluminum Alloy) on sale for $199.99 - $80 off when you apply promo code B01RDG65 at checkout = $119.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member thethingx for sharing this deal.
Thanks to community member thethingx for sharing this deal.
- Note: Product will be sold by ORICO Direct US Store and fulfilled by Amazon. You must be logged in to clip coupons and apply promo codes. If a code doesn't work right away, try applying it a few times across different interfaces such as mobile or desktop, as some codes may not apply consistently. If issues persist, refresh the page, re-enter the code, or revisit the cart before checking out.
- 5-bay HDD enclosure accommodates 3.5-inch SATA disks with maximum storage capacity up to 110TB
- USB 3.0 interface, transfer speed reaches up to 235MB/s
- Aluminum HDD case is outfitted with an 80mm silent cooling fan, as well as front and rear vents
- Includes safety locking mechanism
- 150W power supply
Editor's Notes
Written by RevOne | Staff- About this Store:
- Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
- If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.
- Additional Information:
- This offer is $2 less than the last Frontpage Deal from August 2025.
- Our research indicates that this deal is $40 less (25% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $159.99 at the time of this post.
- Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.
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There's literally another Slickdeals thread right now for the TerraMaster D4-320 4-bay for $152: https://slickdeals.net/f/19892376USB
3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps, and TerraMaster claims up to 1,016 MB/s aggregate with 4 HDDs. So for basically the same money, you're looking at ~1 GB/s vs ~235 MB/s total.
And if 5 bays are a requirement, we don't even need to leave ORICO: https://a.co/d/0bGehXptThat's
That's ORICO's 5-bay USB 3.2 Gen 2 / 10Gbps model. It's currently $179.99 with a 15% coupon, so $152.99.
So no, the alternatives aren't "$280 for maybe 2x faster" or "$700 for 4x faster RAID 0." You can spend ~$152 and simply not have a 235 MB/s bottleneck shared across 4–5 hard drives.
Also, 10Gbps isn't ~2x 235 MB/s. 235 MB/s is only ~1.88Gbps. A 10Gbps USB link is over 5x the raw bandwidth, and ~1 GB/s real-world aggregate is completely realistic for this class of enclosure.
That's why I was laughing at the 235 MB/s limit. It's not that 235 MB/s is unusable. It's that putting 5 drive bays behind a ~235 MB/s aggregate bottleneck in 2026 is a hilariously bad design when similarly priced alternatives don't have that limitation.
Edit: And to answer your question about how much that "UP TO" actually means in practice: I use the TerraMaster D4-320 in my media server, and I've personally seen it hit around 1,034 MB/s during parity checks across the array.
So yes, these enclosures can actually get very close to the advertised ~1 GB/s aggregate throughput. "Up to" isn't doing nearly as much heavy lifting there as you seem to think. 😄
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I believe it was primarily about it not reporting the serial numbers and issues when you connect multiple enclosures which the USB-C did not have
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But why presume, measurements are listed for both das and bags.
So when I converted it to "inches" when referencing the chart you provided (thank you very much), it comes out to 8.779in x 5.511in x 8.385in. So I'll be going w/ the 9L size instead. Thanks again.
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But if you would like to spend $280 (newegg claims it's $55.95 off) here's 5-bay with up to 10Gbps transfer speed, so ~2 times faster. Up to. And I have no idea how hard that UP TO works.
https://www.newegg.com/p/1DN-004U-00021
Or take for example this $700 unit with up to 1,035 MB/s (test conditions: 5 HDDs, RAID 0 mode).
D5 Thunderbolt 3
https://www.terra-master.com/coll...nderbolt-3
So ~4 times faster. Again, UP TO. And in RAID-0, so not my use case.
So... If you know a better solution for cheap+reliable+fast das, please link?
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There's literally another Slickdeals thread right now for the TerraMaster D4-320 4-bay for $152: https://slickdeals.net/f/19892376USB
3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps, and TerraMaster claims up to 1,016 MB/s aggregate with 4 HDDs. So for basically the same money, you're looking at ~1 GB/s vs ~235 MB/s total.
And if 5 bays are a requirement, we don't even need to leave ORICO: https://a.co/d/0bGehXptThat's
That's ORICO's 5-bay USB 3.2 Gen 2 / 10Gbps model. It's currently $179.99 with a 15% coupon, so $152.99.
So no, the alternatives aren't "$280 for maybe 2x faster" or "$700 for 4x faster RAID 0." You can spend ~$152 and simply not have a 235 MB/s bottleneck shared across 4–5 hard drives.
Also, 10Gbps isn't ~2x 235 MB/s. 235 MB/s is only ~1.88Gbps. A 10Gbps USB link is over 5x the raw bandwidth, and ~1 GB/s real-world aggregate is completely realistic for this class of enclosure.
That's why I was laughing at the 235 MB/s limit. It's not that 235 MB/s is unusable. It's that putting 5 drive bays behind a ~235 MB/s aggregate bottleneck in 2026 is a hilariously bad design when similarly priced alternatives don't have that limitation.
Edit: And to answer your question about how much that "UP TO" actually means in practice: I use the TerraMaster D4-320 in my media server, and I've personally seen it hit around 1,034 MB/s during parity checks across the array.
So yes, these enclosures can actually get very close to the advertised ~1 GB/s aggregate throughput. "Up to" isn't doing nearly as much heavy lifting there as you seem to think. 😄
This hopefully will help someone. But not me, I bought this over a year ago for $80.
There's also a different approach: build your own super fast DAS using HBA, so hdd/ssd speed will be the limiting factor, not the interface. I'm going to dump links to examples of parts, maybe it will give someone an idea.
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