Hard Drive Enclosure Supports Multi Bay via USB Interface, Black, 8-Bay

I have had mine for over 6 months and it has worked flawlessly. The drives were very easy to install as well as connecting the USB 3.0 to a port on my PC. I like that I can individually turn the drives on and off as well as turn the complete rack on and off. I used a label maker to identify each drive which helps remembering which drive is plugged into what tray position. The unit runs cool and quiet, the sound from the fan is very low. The design fits nicely on my desk, looks nice and clean, and does not take up much space. I would definitely recommend this product. It is a very good value for the money as you can't beat the price.

I had a bunch of legacy drives and was swapping out my computer, I didn't want my new huge tower to be stuffed with hard drives for various reasons. This connected with USB quickly and all my drives showed up in Linux. It even works with LUKS (encryption) without problem. Just a note: This isn't RAID nor did I want it, but in certain cases transferring files will be slow. Especially between drives in the same tower -- the nature of USB is that the processor has to handle it and send it down the same wire. Imagine a 1 car tunnel on a two way street. One side passes, then has to yield to the other side. Yeah, it's gonna be slower than a seamless flow of 2 way traffic. It'll eventually get it done but is not something for speed demons. For a faster exchange of data from drives into the tower to another, I would suggest keeping the drive you are transferring data to from the others via a seperate cable - whether internal to your computer tower or a seperate single enclosure - I had various external drives that I just took apart and put the new HDD in without much problem. As it is, it's perfect for those drives you put the random files on or archive. I'm reading about those who are putting SDDs in these and expecting speed -- USB is not appropriate for speed in the first place. That's what SATA/eSATA is for at the least, although NVMe is fastest. Second, you're not gonna split 4/8 drives and get cutting edge speed. Does not happen. Great for archival, transfer of files if you have time, and storing HDDs out of the way but still usable. Bad for getting the most speed out of your drives, especially if accessing 2+ at a time.

This review is specifically for the 8-bay SYBA External Enclosure (All three models: 4, 5, and 8 bays all have different features and ARE NOT similar. Make sure to read the details before buying your chosen product.) Tested on Windows 10: PROS --Works as a JBOD only device as what I wanted (This is not a raid device & its advertised as so). I personally did not need the additional features and price premium raid provides for my specific use-case. --This is a USB 3.0 only model. Tested HDDs by doing a scan to all the drives at the same time. Realistic speeds seems to top-off at about 240~300MB/s total. This speed gets shared between all the drives. (Could be faster for other people - but this was based on my scenario and computer). --USB 3.0 doesn't seem to "use power" beyond the PCI-E built in power (This is a good thing). My built in PCI-E USB 3.0 card does not have the additional power plugged into the card. With other devices this causes my drives to drop offline or even cause BSODs. This specific model's built in power supply does the job & properly only uses the USB cable for data only and not for additional power. --This specific 8-bay model has a power button switch for each HDD bay. --Power button does in-fact stay pressed in and will turn back on when power is back on (other reviews mention it doesn't). --WORKS WITH 10TB --Tested with those shucked White Label 8 & 10TB EasyStore external drives with the known 3.3V Reset Pin or known as the power disable feature. Hard drive shows up without issue (The competitor Mediasonic advertises they DONT support this. I took a gamble and turns out SYBA external enclosure does in fact seem to support it). --SMART data does get passed onto the OS. (StableBit Scanner can properly scan and read SMART data). --Works with StableBit Drivepool --Because its JBOD was able to properly use Windows Bitlocker Encryption without issue --The trays make it somewhat easy to install the HDDs tool-less. I found the easiest way is to put the HDD first on one side. When putting the other side you can lift the little "side tabs" so it pulls back the clip enough for the drive to fall into place then push the plastic into the screw hole without hassle. Defiantly better then other brands that don't have this movable piece as other brands force you to bend the plastic making it easier to break. This brand you do not need to bend any of the plastic to insert the HDD. CONS --Expected the fans to be a bit more powerful on high. I know for most people super loud fans are annoying, but I prefer louder fans as opposed to hotter HDD temperatures. Got a HDD running at 114.8F in this thing while the HDD is running @ 100% for several hours. (BUT still an improvement from the 118F+ I would get in a standard External EasyStore enclosure inside a hot server cabinet). --No documentations NOT TESTED --Unable to test ejecting the drive from within the OS (As my computer says drive is in use) NOTES --The screws included are for the 2.5 to the 3.5 tray mounting. (Found out using SYBA's website).

i bought this to replace 1 that was starting to drop harddrives. its not very big which i was surprised about because the 1 it is replacing is bigger even though they both hold the same amount of drives. each drive has its own power button which is great for switching out drives if you need to and the case has a power button if you want to switch everything off. the harddrives are easy to install, although the tray that the harddrive sits in is plastic so you need to take your time putting a drive into a tray. no screws required. the case itself is sturdy and made of metal and the two fans om the back so far seem to be really quiet.. each bay has its own power light and activity lightso you can see which drive is being accessed. i live in the UK and the plug is NOT UK compatible, but if you have an old kettle plug say from an old PC that works fine as that is what i had to use. all in all a nice bit of kit and i would recommend this to anyone.

Got my item, as I tried to install the hard drives, the shelves were drilled wrong and you are unable to screw in the hard drives for secure holding, and also came with an non-UK power cord, forcing me to go out and buy an adapter to allow me to use the item, once the enclosure was plugged in, to electricity and pc, the enclosure was dead, not turning on at all.

Pensé que me estaba arriesgando al comprar este producto después de leer algunas reseñas. Estoy usando este enclosure con MacOS X sin ningún problema, todos los discos son detectados correctamente y estoy usando las 8 bandejas con una mezcla de discos de diferentes marcas, capacidades y tamaños. Le estoy quitando una estrella solo por el hecho de que los discos duros de 2.5" hacen que las bandejas no entren y salgan como lo hacen con los discos de 3.5", esto es por un error en el diseño que esta hecho especialmente para los discos de 3.5". Con los discos de 2.5" los clips plásticos que tienen las bandejas quedan un poco extruidos por el lado donde va el disco y esto hace que tengas que meter y sacar la bandeja a presión como forzando la entrada y salida. Fuera de eso todo ha funcionado muy bien y confirmo que los abanicos del enclosure son bastante silenciosos.

Este articulo parecia una excelente solucion para tener 8 discos duros en un espacio pequeño, ventilados y por USB... Pero no lo fue. Los discos se desmontan aleatoriamente. Se tiene que reiniciar cada 2 o 3 horas para que aparezcan todos los discos. Intente instalar el ultimo firmware directamente de Syba, no funciono. Cambiar de discos y tampoco. Cambiar los lugares de los discos y tampoco. Usar otra computadora y tampoco. Usar otro sistema operativo... Y es lo mismo. Tanto en Windows, MacOs y Linux es lo mismo. Acabe perdiendo muchisimo tiempo. Ahorratelo tu tambien

It has issues when more than one drive is accessed as the same time, and has to be reset. Hard to figure out how to update as the instructions are hard to follow, perhaps that will resolve the issues.