Aluminum Dual Bay Hard Drive Enclosure with Cooling Fan for 2.5“/3.5″ SATA HDD/SSD with USB A/C 3.0, Support Hot Swappable, Daisy Chain Expansion, Tool-Free HDD Enclosure, DAS(NO RAID/NAS)

Tight fit, but pretty good.
Using it for a home NAS, had it for a couple of months, no issues so far, but HDD fits tightly into bracket, for the first 30 minutes I thought I wasn’t installing it right, but it’s just a really tight fit, too tight for my taste. The seller claims the fan is pretty loud, but to me it seems alright, not particularly loud, my desktop is way louder on idle. Other than that, the build quality feels good, the HDD slides in smoothly and clicks into place nicely.

Easy to setup no issues, does have a 12v ac adapter to plug in, 2.5 or 3.5″ drives
This external cabinet connects via usb 2 or 3 and has two bays. (units can be daisy chained) It will accept 2.5 or 3.5″ drives and ssd’s. You need to plug in the 12v adapter for power it doesn’t run off usb. The toughest part of setting this up was figuring out how the 2.5″ ssd installed in the tray, the picture is basically flipped but no biggie the 2.5″ drive screws to the bottom of the tray not the sides on the right side. You may wish to use a magnetic phillips screw driver so you don’t lose the screws when you put them in. They give you a good number of screws in case you lose one. This took me probably less than twenty minutes to setup, the biggest headache for me was where to plug in the 12v adapter. Pull out the tray (no key, squeeze the release on the front of the tray) screw in the drive push it back into the cabinet and with the rear power switch off plug in the usb and power plug, the usb cable is C or A on one side and the really old blocky stacked usb connector (I don’t even remember what it’s called anymore) at the case. I just set it on top of my computer, don’t notice any noisy fan issues at least not yet which is the only complaint I’ve seen about this unit in the reviews. It works fine and the price was not bad at all although I think if I had to do it again I would have bought the three or four bay over the two bay. I put a corsair drive in here, it worked right away no fiddling. To enter drive administration on windows 11 you right click over the start button and it’s on that menu. Used MBR for a 2 tb drive and let windows format it, was done in a couple of minutes you will be asked to choose the drive letter. Using this for a steam game drive had to go into steam settings and tell steam to use this drive. Very easy no headaches. The trays on this are plastic but as long as you aren’t rough with it they should take the daily use without breaking easily. I did reboot after I installed this, not sure you really need to because it is hot swap but that’s pretty ingrained in my psyche as I’m an old computer builder. Update: been using this a couple of months been working flawlessly as a steam game drive. I don’t hear the fans at all so perhaps that might be to do with the number of bays etc. I notice you can now buy replacement drive trays on amazon (under 10 bucks not expensive). My only wish might be for a version that installs in 5.25 external case bays and uses the same trays. I’ll be replacing my PC soon will get a larger version so I can easily swap the drives around. Very satisfied so far been using a usb A 3.0 plug on the case for data cable no issues. One small complaint, us old farts, especially if our hands are getting weak might have a hard time getting the drawer to release by squeezing. I installed a new drive tonight without turning anything off worked great so the hot swap part works properly but when I tried to remove the drive tray it was VERY VERY resistant to being removed with the drive installed. Yes I like the idea of the connections being tight but I now appreciate my other drive bay product that has a ‘lever type” arrangement on the front to give leverage to get the connections to part. If you have monstrous kids (or stupid roomies) that can’t keep their hands off things you might like the idea that they couldn’t easily pull a drive out at the wrong moment but I don’t have that issue. Just be aware the first few times you pull these drives out you might have to have one person holding the cabinet while you try to wrestle the tray out. The drawers just don’t really give you enough purchase on the tray to pull it out because only the tips of your fingers fit in the slots on the front.

Fantastic little box.Had a few left over 3.5″ drives floating around and my server only has SAS cages for my server.This thing was plug and play, and using a bit of linux scripting they power up and down according to usage.Been running consistently for a couple of months now and am very happy.Considering buying a couple more

Works well. The noise fan is almost not noticeable compared to the HDDs themselves spinning.

Très bien pour recycler des disques durs et obtenir une baie de stockage pour les sauvegardes. L’installation se fait en quelques minutes seulement.Le ventilateur est audible mais s’oublie vite.