Aluminum Dual Bay 10Gbps Hard Drive Enclosure with Cooling Fan for 2.5“/3.5" SATA HDD/SSD with USB A/C 3.2 Gen 2, Support Hot Swappable, Daisy Chain Expansion, Tool-Free, DAS(NO RAID/NAS)

I think this is a great product. It seems very well constructed and includes everything you can think of.I am replacing my tower desktop that has multiple SATA hard drives, and purchased this device to attached similar drives (2TB and 8TB) via USB 3.2 instead of SATA. I was concerned about the speed of the device, but I did some benchmarking and the USB connected drives on the Canmate and MiniPC actually operated maybe 5 to 10% better than the similar SATA-mounted drives on the old desktop. The new MiniPC has a faster CPU, not sure how that affects disk benchmarking performance.So, being concerned about performance bottleneck on USB to the drives, is a non-issue. I also tested an SSD drive in the device, and all the scores were noticeably better than the HDD, except for the sequential writes actually dropped about 5%. I am using one drive for backups, so I think sequential right speeds are important, but the other is for scratch data where I think random read/writes are more likely. In otherwords, changing one drive to an SSD will most likely, but not always, offer me better performance.If I had to make one complaint, the fan can get a little loud. While initially setting it up, I had the fan facing me, and it was noticeably loud. Turning the device around to it's normal position helps, and being in an office environment helps drown it out. I suppose if I really wanted to I could upgrade the fan myself to a silent drive, but I don't want to void the warranty.Over all, I am pleased with the cost, construction, performance and operation of the device. It seems like a simple device, so I'm hoping that it will be lasting several years.

The enclosure works well so far. Install was easy, it's been running reliably for a month now, and speeds are good. I've run into two things that could be issues for some people1: the included power supply doesn't give enough power to spin up all 6 disks. From a cold start, I have to pull one disc out, let it power the rest up, then insert the 6th. Not that big of an issue for my usage, as I keep it on for the most part, but a minor annoyance.2: The fans are not particularly quiet. It's in a networking closet for me, so it's not an issue, but it may not be the best fit for a desk in a workspace.

This is a DAS (Direct Attached Storage) device which means you can plug it directly into a desktop or laptop and the computer will see each hard drive in this just like it would if you had installed it into the computer. Because this uses the fastest USB version (at the time I purchased anyway) the transfer rates are even faster than what my old computer was via internal SATA connections. Either way I'm using mine on a laptop with 4 drives for a Plex server and its working excellent and can load and play 4K files from the 7200 RPM drives I have it in which my other computer wasn't capable of doing and only worked correctly on SSD drives. The huge storage capability of this made it a no brainer for my plex server and because there are no screws required for the drives to be installed that was super easy.I was a bit concerned about the noise level that people had mentioned in other reviews. In my case I put this in my office where it stays on 24/7 and its no different than having my other computer running fan noise wise. So you can hear it running but its nothing I would call loud. If you prefer silence though it might be best to put it in a room you aren't in constantly or maybe in a further back area of the room not as close to you. But it is absolutely not loud, just a low fan noise and doesn't bother me at all and I sit about 5 feet away.Setting this up was about as easy as it could possibly be. I just connected it to power and to the laptop with USB-C, popped my drives (WITH DATA on them still) out of my old computer and put them into this enclosure with no tools required, slid the sleds back in one at a time and they started showing up on the computer within seconds. IF you buy a brand new drive do the same thing but then go to Disk Management and initialize the drive and assign drive letter/etc. and you'll be good to go in no time!

Using as an external backup bay on a Synology DS920+ NAS w/ 2x WD Red+ drives. Working great! 100MB/s r/w speeds and no disconnect issues. Maybe I got lucky, but mine is not loud. There is a fan - and it's running - but the spinning drives make as about much noise as the fan. It's there, but not really more than any external hard drive enclosure that's using traditional drives. Get SSD's if you want silence. It's also possible this is a newer version, as Cenmate seems to have a couple of variants of this chassis. Mine is the USB 3.2 version.

I got this to hook up to a raspberry pi 4 that I have been using to store backups. Being able to daisy-chain enclosures is cool and what initially draw me to this enclosure.Unfortunately, it is going back. Anytime I try to setup a drive, I get errors. I thought maybe it was due to insufficient power because I was running the pi off of a poe+ hat, but after swapping out for a 20W power adapter, and various other troubleshooting steps, I've decided to return it. I suspect it is a lack of proper UASP support, but I'm not going to spend any more time trying to enable quirks mode because I would still be returning it if that was required.Besides the daisy-chaining featuer, I got this because it was cheap (relatively speaking). The build quality reflects that. It seems to work great for some people. It may be a raspberry pi thing. I have had a four bay Mediasonic USB 3.2 enclosure for several years that was been working flawlessly, though, so I'm going to get their larger eight bay model and return this one.