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product_id: 656603681
title: "8 Bay Tool Less Tray Hot Swapable 2.5\" and 3.5\" SATA Hard Drive External USB-C 3.2 (10Gbps) Hard Drive Enclosure. Support up to 8X 22TB Capacity."
brand: "io crest"
price: "AR$1051353"
currency: ARS
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 7
category: "Io Crest"
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# USB-C 3.2 10Gbps speed 8 bays, 22TB each max Smart fan with thermal sensor 8 Bay Tool Less Tray Hot Swapable 2.5" and 3.5" SATA Hard Drive External USB-C 3.2 (10Gbps) Hard Drive Enclosure. Support up to 8X 22TB Capacity.

**Brand:** io crest
**Price:** AR$1051353
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Unlock next-level storage speed and control—because your data deserves the best!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** 8 Bay Tool Less Tray Hot Swapable 2.5" and 3.5" SATA Hard Drive External USB-C 3.2 (10Gbps) Hard Drive Enclosure. Support up to 8X 22TB Capacity. by io crest
- **How much does it cost?** AR$1051353 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.ar](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/656603681-8-bay-tool-less-tray-hot-swapable-2-5-3)

## Best For

- io crest enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted io crest brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Customizable Cooling Control:** Smart fan with auto/manual modes and 3 speed levels keeps drives cool and quiet under pressure.
- • **Blazing Fast USB-C 3.2 Interface:** Experience ultra-smooth 10Gbps transfers that keep your workflow lightning quick.
- • **Independent Drive Power Switches:** Save energy and extend drive lifespan by powering off individual bays when not in use.
- • **Massive 176TB Storage Powerhouse:** Expand effortlessly with 8 bays supporting up to 22TB each—future-proof your data needs.
- • **Plug & Play Multi-OS Compatibility:** Seamlessly integrates with Windows, macOS, Linux, and Chrome OS—no drivers needed.

## Overview

The IO CREST SY-ENC50125 is a robust 8-bay external hard drive enclosure supporting both 2.5" and 3.5" SATA drives up to 22TB each. Featuring a USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 interface delivering up to 10Gbps transfer speeds, it offers smart thermal management with a quiet, adjustable fan and independent power switches for each drive. Compatible across major operating systems and designed for tool-less drive installation, it’s the ideal solution for professionals seeking scalable, high-capacity storage with efficient cooling and easy management.

## Description

IO CREST SY-ENC50125 8 bay 2.5" and 3.5" USB-C SATA External Enclosure is a quick and simple way to expand storage capacity. Latest controller and firmware support 8 x 22TB drives.Unique independent switch designallows drives to be powered off individually, prolonging the life of the drives. SY-ENC50125 with USB-C 10 Gbps Superspeed interface helps to transfer your files in a breeze and compatible with USB2.0,1.1,1.0. Plug and Play,No additional driver or utility needed.

Review: Great DAS for a home server - It's a lovely enclosure with its aluminium case. The drive trays are well built with even a little bit of reinforcing metal on the front of them instead of being all plastic. They accommodated ssds but you do have to remove one of the retaining clips in order to make that work. However, these sleds are really easy to put 3.5-in drives into. Another nice thing about this enclosure is the LED lights are easy to read and it has a nice power switch on the front. Good news is it uses ASMedia bridge chips and hub that can pass TRIM commands and supports Linux UAS (USB attached SCSI). However, if you plug it a hub rather directly to a USB on the server processor, you will need to configure the Linux kernel. But don't dispair, Google Gemini figured out the commands and saved me from tedious web searching. Performance wise against a pair of SSDs shows the enclosure chips has low latency but can be overwhelmed easily. Fio showed good numbers for USB 3.2 SSDs as a single drive, but fell apart on dual drive read/writes. I wouldn't recommend this enclosure if you're trying to get performance for raid SSD drives. On the other hand, if these are spinning discs, it's going to be able to keep up since ssds are already operating about 200 times faster then hdds. The cooling fan kept a full stack of HDDs to 50C during a grueling ZFS scrub operation. Honestly, if you're looking for raw performance, you wouldn't buy these, you would attach your drives to an enterprise SAS solution. But since you are looking at buying an enclosure, you probably don't have that option available to you. I just say move your drives into this enclosure and you won't notice the difference between this and directly attached SAS. This DAS gets five stars for me because it's pretty much what I expect at this price point. TRIM, excellent low latency and a very attractive enclosure make this a great DAS for a home server.
Review: Great box with Iffy management software for Macintosh. - This is great value. As per other reviews here, I am astounded at the build quality and inclusions with this product. It comes with a couple of dozen little drive screws, which you would only need if you are installing 2.5 inch drives. And it comes with cables for both eSATA and USB 3.0, and they are not the usual short cables that come with drives - there is a little room to play here. I did not measure them but they are good. The POWER cord is only a couple of feet long, but it is a standard 3-prong IEC power cable! You can get one cheap anyplace you are, if you don't already have a couple of spares lying around. The RAID app is fun! I spent the day changing modes and testing speed. I've had RAID appliances before, but I'd never ever built a RAID, and it was pretty easy with the included software. I have to not that I used the software to set up my drives in it. I had an old Promise 6400 4-Bay enclosure from 2009 I think, and bay 4 was crapping out, so I took a chance on this Syba box to replace the failing Promise. I had the most recent 4x 5TB hard drives from that box, and a fifth 5TB drive I had as a spare, so in they went, and it's running fine on my Mac Mini 2012 running El Capitan. I am going in through eSATA into a Thunderbolt-to-eSATA dongle I had used with the Promise RAID. I'm currently running in RAID5. In every mode I was getting about 200MB/s up and down from this thing. It's a great box so far. If anything changes I will update this here review. Have a great day everyone! Update: a week into running this. The unit is fine, but the HW RAID Manager software for Mac now cannot see the enclosure, although the RAID volume does still mount perfectly on my desktop. I switched from eSATA to the USB connection to see if it helps, but it didn't change anything. I deleted the software management app as well as all of it's prefs and did a clean reinstall, and it still doesn't see the unit. It turned out that if I launch the application from my DOCK it won't see the drives, but if I launch the application from inside the Applications Folder the app operates correctly!! So do it that way, and all will be fine. The RAID Hardware is exceptionally well constructed, accessible, and runs very cool temperature-wise. I'm loving this thing! Update 2025: Still running great 5 years later. I've since bought 2 more of these. Love em so much!

## Features

- Support all brands of 2.5 Inch and 3.5 Inch SATA hard disk drive up to 22TB per drive. (Does not support RAID and NAS function)
- Smart Fan Function with built-in thermal sensor support Auto & Manual mode with 3 level of fan speed
- Super Speed USB3.2 10Gbps Connection transfer your files in a breeze.Supports SATA I/II/III(6GB/s), UASP and USB 3.0(5GB/s).
- Independent control switch for each drive allows drives to be powered off individually. Dissipates heat efficiently with steel housing & quiet fan.
- Supports all of the leading operating systems, including: Microsoft Windows (11/10/8/7/Vista/XP/Server 2016/Server2012/Server 2008/Server 2003), Apple OSX (10.9+/10.8/10.7/10.6), Linux, and Google Chrome OS.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B0DCDDGHMJ |
| Best Sellers Rank | #119 in Enclosures |
| Compatible Devices | Hard Disk Drives (HDD), specifically 2.5 inch and 3.5 SATA HDDs with a capacity of up to 22TB |
| Customer Reviews | 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars (523) |
| Data Transfer Rate | 10 Gigabits Per Second |
| Date First Available | August 6, 2024 |
| Hard Disk Form Factor | 3.5 Inches |
| Item Weight | 11 pounds |
| Item model number | SY-ENC50125 |
| Manufacturer | IO CREST |
| Max Number of Supported Devices | 8 |
| Memory Storage Capacity | 22 TB |
| Package Dimensions | 16.5 x 13.7 x 7.8 inches |
| UPC | 857426008970 |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** IO CREST
- **Color:** Black
- **Hardware Interface:** USB 3.2 Gen 2
- **Hardware Platform:** Universal
- **Material:** Metal

## Images

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## Available Options

This product comes in different **Color, Size** options.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great DAS for a home server
*by E***G on January 12, 2026*

It's a lovely enclosure with its aluminium case. The drive trays are well built with even a little bit of reinforcing metal on the front of them instead of being all plastic. They accommodated ssds but you do have to remove one of the retaining clips in order to make that work. However, these sleds are really easy to put 3.5-in drives into. Another nice thing about this enclosure is the LED lights are easy to read and it has a nice power switch on the front. Good news is it uses ASMedia bridge chips and hub that can pass TRIM commands and supports Linux UAS (USB attached SCSI). However, if you plug it a hub rather directly to a USB on the server processor, you will need to configure the Linux kernel. But don't dispair, Google Gemini figured out the commands and saved me from tedious web searching. Performance wise against a pair of SSDs shows the enclosure chips has low latency but can be overwhelmed easily. Fio showed good numbers for USB 3.2 SSDs as a single drive, but fell apart on dual drive read/writes. I wouldn't recommend this enclosure if you're trying to get performance for raid SSD drives. On the other hand, if these are spinning discs, it's going to be able to keep up since ssds are already operating about 200 times faster then hdds. The cooling fan kept a full stack of HDDs to 50C during a grueling ZFS scrub operation. Honestly, if you're looking for raw performance, you wouldn't buy these, you would attach your drives to an enterprise SAS solution. But since you are looking at buying an enclosure, you probably don't have that option available to you. I just say move your drives into this enclosure and you won't notice the difference between this and directly attached SAS. This DAS gets five stars for me because it's pretty much what I expect at this price point. TRIM, excellent low latency and a very attractive enclosure make this a great DAS for a home server.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great box with Iffy management software for Macintosh.
*by G***S on April 13, 2021*

This is great value. As per other reviews here, I am astounded at the build quality and inclusions with this product. It comes with a couple of dozen little drive screws, which you would only need if you are installing 2.5 inch drives. And it comes with cables for both eSATA and USB 3.0, and they are not the usual short cables that come with drives - there is a little room to play here. I did not measure them but they are good. The POWER cord is only a couple of feet long, but it is a standard 3-prong IEC power cable! You can get one cheap anyplace you are, if you don't already have a couple of spares lying around. The RAID app is fun! I spent the day changing modes and testing speed. I've had RAID appliances before, but I'd never ever built a RAID, and it was pretty easy with the included software. I have to not that I used the software to set up my drives in it. I had an old Promise 6400 4-Bay enclosure from 2009 I think, and bay 4 was crapping out, so I took a chance on this Syba box to replace the failing Promise. I had the most recent 4x 5TB hard drives from that box, and a fifth 5TB drive I had as a spare, so in they went, and it's running fine on my Mac Mini 2012 running El Capitan. I am going in through eSATA into a Thunderbolt-to-eSATA dongle I had used with the Promise RAID. I'm currently running in RAID5. In every mode I was getting about 200MB/s up and down from this thing. It's a great box so far. If anything changes I will update this here review. Have a great day everyone! Update: a week into running this. The unit is fine, but the HW RAID Manager software for Mac now cannot see the enclosure, although the RAID volume does still mount perfectly on my desktop. I switched from eSATA to the USB connection to see if it helps, but it didn't change anything. I deleted the software management app as well as all of it's prefs and did a clean reinstall, and it still doesn't see the unit. It turned out that if I launch the application from my DOCK it won't see the drives, but if I launch the application from inside the Applications Folder the app operates correctly!! So do it that way, and all will be fine. The RAID Hardware is exceptionally well constructed, accessible, and runs very cool temperature-wise. I'm loving this thing! Update 2025: Still running great 5 years later. I've since bought 2 more of these. Love em so much!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by C***A on November 23, 2022*

Similar - and more expensive - products won't work with Android boxes, but this one will. Easy to install and works perfectly, all HDs are viewed individually by the OS. I would be nice to have individual power buttons per HD, but that's a tiny detail. Noise level could be better but it's far from noisy. That little box is awesome

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*Last updated: 2026-02-24*