You will absolutely COOK those hard drives. Trust me, I did exactly that. It was with eSATA but it was the same type of system (different brand). There is not enough ventilation in that enclosure to cool that many 7,200 RPM drives sufficiently. You will spend a lot of money replacing hard drives until finally you'll come to the conclusion that your sweet drive enclosure is a hard drive torture chamber.
Yeah that fan looks like it hardly gets any airflow with the tiny gap underneath the unit. Just don't buy cheap hard drive enclosures, this is the sort of thing you don't want to cheap out on.
This tutorial has fantastic voice audio even though the subject is very close to spinning fans... without bulky microphones in view. Really, really impressive work!
Its a good Enclosure been using it for a while now,THE Noise was annoying ,so i opened it up and replaced the fan and cable with less noisy ones and now its very very quiet.
The b roll WIth that clicking noise was great and on point. Loved it. And the review was also very detailed. You earned a sub bro. Keep up the good work.
What a great idea. I need more space. I'm going to order this thing. This is perfect for my Plex Media Server. I'm tired of having 6 hard drives connected to my PC all the time. This is perfect.
I just picked up a 2 slot HDD dock for my desk top, worked like a charm. My favorite part is being able to turn it off when I don't need it to cut down on noise
Yeah being able to turn it off easily is a good way to cut down on noise. This 5-Bay dock will go to sleep after what seems like 10 or 15 minutes of no activity. But sometimes I will manually turn it off if I need quiet right away lol
Why is it so expensive? It's around £200 in the UK, currently. For £200, I could buy a 12 TB external drive, and copy my five drives worth of data onto it. It's just a plastic box with a tiny amount of electronics. I could get five SATA-to-USB connectors for less than a quarter the cost of this enclosure, and then how much is a small plastic box?
Excellent video and perfect description of this device, can I use a different sizes of hard drives and use them separately,(one for videos and another for photos).
pretty cool. Would be amazing if there was an LED light right next to each of the drive bays to let the user know when its safe to yank the ol bank out.
Only just got mine . Maybe they improved the fan as mine is not bothersome at all. My only complaint is hot swapping which does not work as per the manual. 2.5 inch drives fit well too but more finicky to insert.
I was wondering how these drives are doing? I have an insignia dock, that I have 2 hard drives plugged in all day everyday and was just wondering if these docks are safe to use on a daily basis. its safe on the desk from getting hit and bumped and no food or liquids go in that area of my workstation. Just curious the longevity of these docks.
@@groupy123987 i replace it with the NOCTUA NF-S12B REDUX-700 120MM . No its not really difficult just need to cut the original 2 pin connector and connect it to the new fan because is not the same ...if you are not used to do things like this it will be better someone else to do it for you .
I have a iMac 27" late 2015. I discovered none of the drives can be used as system startups, not SSD or anything. SSD's go in fine but they are so tiny, far down and tight to the corner it takes tiny fingers to reach in their and pull it out. I won't recognized a 16TB Seagate EXOS 7200rpm. It sleeps so it takes a while for the drives to spin up before your system unfreezes, in some cases the drives are NOT available and the Mac things the folders are empty. The fan is really noisy. Its nice to hear someone swapped it out with a noctua, I might try that. The USB-C connector is nice. The magnatic lid is nice. I have a 4-bay Mediasonic horizontal mount, these things vibrated out of position, which is the reason I wanted a vertical install. The Mediasonic is a dust magnet, this unit so far is not.
So, are we not gonna talk about the fact that the drives are just sitting in the designated drive slots loosey-goosey? The holes for the 3.5 drives are wayyy too big. When you slide the 3.5 drive in and connect it, there's roughly a cm or more of space where the drive can wobble. That can't be good for the drive's connectors. I'm appalled that they wouldn't offer a bay sider or some other apparatus to lock the drives in place.
I'm guessing the fan noise is fixed in newer batches? Got mine this week and the fan is audible when you only get your ear next to the dock, otherwise I can barely hear the fan with me just being a meter away. great dock, just perfect for my needs for $80
Don't understand comment at :50 second mark...."Maximum supported hard drive size of 10 Terabytes" Each hard drive added can not exceed 10 TB? Is that to what you are referring? What of the physical size of the hard drive...ie lap top hard drives ... can they be used?
Great video thanks for the info i was looking for a cheep one of these this is great im building a small ITX pc but using it for My Game Videos and My Plex server for my movies
It can do Windows Storage Spaces RAID config. ORICO 5 Bay USB 3.0 to SATA Chia External Hard Drive Enclosure for 3.5 inch HDD Support 80TB (5 x 16TB) Aluminum Alloy RAID Enclosure Support RAID Mode Storage.
May I ask you something? Is the unit still functioning? I have used 4 of their HDD Dock and within 2 years they all die. In my country I can't find a suitable replacement I ended up using this brand again and again.
Had for more than a year, 2 major issues: 1. Doesn't support hotswap. If you attempt to swap a harddisk, the whole 5 bay will reset. 2. Doesn't turn on automatically after power cut. Need to turn it on manually. I have it connected to a NAS and UPS running raid 5.
But my hard drives are 16 terabytes each, I haven't seen the whole video yet, curious if the slightly more expensive usb 3.1 model which looks to be redesigned can handle the larger drives but more-importantly has anyone heard the fans when running on the newer one? ☹
Hi There, Thank you for your detailed review, I have just ventured into a HDD Dock for the first time (Icy Box 4 bay) (no fan, used just for image storage) Question: Are there any Good HDD docks/enclosures out there that do not have noisey fans or Can a quite fan be retrofitted to the Orico 5 bay in your review, looks like a great product ..........Gary .......................AU
After a recent data loss I'm planning on a simple solution consisting of 2 1TB WD Blue drives. What USB 3+ enclosure would you recommend? I have not decided yet whether it should be a single drive or a dual drive dock.
Qnap enclosure configured in RAID5 and never look back. These Chinese brand eigher doesn't sell this kind of product with raid build in (NEVER do RAID using USB. Let the enclosure hardware do it) or their RAID software totally suck. I got one with RAID5 support but it was never able to reconstruct a drive.
yes it is , i have it about a year and it is ok . but is NOT hardware raid device. I m using software raid , basically i m using windows storage spaces
Thanks much for the video,! Can this be plugged into a router with usb to share on the network? Would be nice if I don't have to move the unit to different computers or leave one computer on to share to the other. TIA
I have used one of these but a diferent brand with USB 3 interface for years. I tried to switch to an Oyen usb-c and it was a fail. The only problem I have had with these is they constantly lose connection with the computer and that Windows keeps having to find it again. Pretty annoying that the drives just won't stay logged on. It gets worse when you try to use longer USB cables.
I'd be using this with 2TB SSDs instead, so the fan would literally never need to be connected, and then the question (that no one seems to have an answer to) is: how fast is it really? Because a whole bunch of these solutions end up offering nowhere near the theoretical max 5gbps speeds that USB3 offers, or even the 550 mbps that any modern SSD is capable of, instead running at maybe 125mbps read/write... do you still have this unit? If so, how does it perform with SSDs in it rather than HDD?
As expected, no follow-up long term review video on this cheap looking, sounding, feeling enclosure. Not surprised especially after I've seen some Amazon reviews. If you want an inexpensive and decent quality box, buy the Mediasonic one.
What is the reason for discouraging people from loading their software onto hard drives? Is it just their mechanical nature that runs slower than Solid State Drives?
Hello ECPU! I am wondering if you know how to get into this external drive enclosure (disassemble it) to get to the fan. This looks exactly like what I need, but I would NOT be able to deal with a cooling fan that sounds like that so I would want to replace it with Noctua fan for silence.
Question. I bought this docking station. Same one you have. The new hard drives I bought are called Seagate BarraCuda 2TB Internal Hard Drive HDD - 3.5 inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 256MB Cache. When put the hard drives into the bays they lean to the side. Yours do not seem to do this. What type of Hard Drives are you using?
Can't control/manage ORICO software created RAIDs when you transfer the usb to linux. It reads the whole RAID as a superblock. but you can't have any info on whether the disks are failing or something like that.
Question: is this a good solution for consoles?, with game's getting bigger and bigger , this seems to be a good answer just to keep all of my game's that I'm not currently playing.
That is the 64k dollar question. This enclosure does NOT do RAID. With a proper RAID enclosure, you can build a RAID-5 array and you are safe. Downside is, you lose 10TB of the 50 for parity, but that is a small price to pay for peace of mind.
@@heijxje You can do software RAID through Windows. However i should note that RAID5 is not ideal, and a lot of people advise to stay away from RAID5 and prefer RAID6 instead or maybe RAID10.
Did you configure the drives in a RAID arrangement? And, if so, can the array be recognized regardless of whether you're running Windows or Linux or other operating systems? Thanks, for the review!
The one in the video is a jbod enclosure, you can get a raid enclosure that usually has dip switches on the back to set raid 0, 1, 5, and some can do raid 10.
After you make a raid(5 in my case) It is recognized in linux as a single block device, but you can't monitor in linux. If a drive is failing..you don't have a way of knowing.
@@thebeatconnect1 If you could share a single or dual drive USB3+ enclosure recommendation on the cheap that would be great. I intend to use it for manual weekly backup sessions.
Can't get drive to actually work. It either doesn't show it in diskmanagement or it shows it as a partitioned drive of 2tb of a simple volime and 10tb of unallocated but It won't let me do anything on either partition. I put it into another caddy and it shows proper 12tb blank formatted drive. So when I put it into this device somehting is fucking up what it is reading and it is the same drive type that the other two working ones in it are.
Jarod Pretender 4 minutes ago i've encountered problem in detecting 5 hdds 4tb each (brand new unformatted) in my orico 5 bays enclosure as i inserted 5 hdds into it & fitted accordingly then pressed the on button behind as 5 of the unformatted lights up then lastly on the 1st top bay got light & the rest of the 4 hdds led goes off. checked in the computer mgmt only the 1st bay raw hdd were detected as the rest nothing. I've checked individual disk putting into 1st bay is detected each one not at 5 hdds together. Any solution to this ? I've tried another desktop pc same results as well. WINs 10 & WINs 7 are facing the same issue. Please advise. Thanks
Hi Jarod, have you already solved this problem? If not, would you mind contact us with the disk management screenshot? Our technician will help you to solve it.
