ORICO 2 Bay 3.5 Inch Hard Drive Enclosure USB C Magnetic Tool-Free External HDD Enclosure Supports UASP with 12V/4A Power Adapter for Family Storage Expansion Up to 36TB(2x18) - DS200C3

Body of the review: I had some initial difficulties with the product, but ORICO's customer service was excellent and helped me resolve the issue quickly. Despite these initial challenges, I am very satisfied with the ORICO 2 Bay 3.5 Inch Hard Drive Enclosure USB C. It meets all my expectations and has provided me with a reliable and easy-to-use storage solution. The enclosure is sturdy and well-built, and the hard drive bays are easy to access. The transfer speed is fast and consistent, and I have not had any problems with the USB-C connection. The design is also sleek and modern, making it an attractive addition to my desk. Overall, I am very satisfied with the ORICO 2 Bay 3.5 Inch Hard Drive Enclosure USB C and would recommend it to anyone looking for a reliable and easy-to-use storage solution. ORICO is a company that cares about customer satisfaction and offers excellent customer service.

Bought this to house a 4tb Hdd and a 12tb hdd and it has now corrupted both drives two times now. That is 32 TB of data destroyed by this terrible external dock. If you arent using the drives for more than 20min or so they go to "sleep" which freezes windows explorer and requires the dock to be unplugged from the usb or turned off to be able to use windows explorer. The problem with this is even if they are "asleep" the pc wont allow you to eject them so you have to turn it off which then they corrupt the data due to not being ejected. I emailed the company about a different firmware and got no response back after weeks. Needless to say this product is going directly in the trash or fire after corrupting 32TB of data total. Do not buy this if you value the data on the drives you are putting in it.

Well, 3 stars because the core functionality works. You can put 2 drives in this and they'll mount on your system. But the fan on this thing is incredibly loud and runs nonstop. It's not "enterprise network switch" level loud, but if you buy Apple or Noctua products for the silence, this thing will be the loudest item on your desk and you will hate it. It would be one thing if the fan did anything, but the airflow doesn't go anywhere near the drives. They're completely encased in plastic with no vents. Those huge vent holes on the exterior? That air has no access to the drive bays and goes right out the bottom. You might be thinking "ok, I'll just mod it to remove the fan or put a quiet one in". Nope. The fan is completely encased in plastic with no screws or obvious clips. There's no way to access it without tearing the entire enclosure to pieces. Also, bonus demerits for not including a USB-C to USB-C cable in the box, only USB-A to USB-C.

Very easy to place the drives inside. The only thing that came up was that once the drives are in place, they tend to be too loose. Had to use a spacer to secure drive firmly. Also the top tends to be too loose as well, comes off too easily. the light magnets do not work as great. Used a black electrical tape to secure better. Over all the product is great and works just fine.

I bought this to add two drives to an existing QNAP NAS which I installed Ubuntu on, as a way to have software RAID for long term file storage. Adding the drives, plugging it in, and powering it up was easy. The drives dropped in, the top is magnetic, so just sits on it, and upon plugging in, both drives were recognized. UASP and hdparm commands work, so the hard disks I bought, which were self-encrypting drives, were able to be erased before I added data to them. This worked flawlessly. An enclosure, when it works, it works well and something one takes for granted. For the past several weeks, I've been using it with extremely heavy disk I/O moving Borg backup archives , I have to export data from a tar file, import it, which means it gets compressed/deduplicated, which can take days per terabyte at the highest compression level. So far, even though USB speeds are relatively slow, it is working well enough, and I've had no errors, even when running ZFS scrubs. If you need a DAS enclosure for two drives and have a machine that can do software RAID, this is definitely something to consider. USB 3.x isn't going to win any speed records... but for data that is intended to be on an archive and seldom used, but still available, it works well enough. Definitely would buy again.

I dont usually write reviews but I am devastated losing 2 hard drives at the same time. Both had very important data that I couldn't lose. The drive disconnected twice during file transfer and disappeared from Windows 11. I restarted the computer and then noticed the enclosure was just doing nothing, no drives showed on the screen. I shut down the computer again, waited for shut down and then clicked the button on the enclosure to power off. Powered the computer and then clicked the power for the drive, and to my shock both drives were now unreadable, registered as RAW. I wouldn't recommend this product to anyone, not even your worst enemy. I will now have to invest in either data recovery software or send to a recovery center. ORICO should be ashamed to make a product that can easily destroy your data. How is it that WD and Seagate can make PCB hardware (external drives) that prevent data loss and ORICO cant.

I moved from a conventional desktop to a mini setup. I had terabytes of information on hdd that I needed to access. This enclosure is perfect for that purpose. I just popped the drives in, plugged in the USB and the information was right there. Only issues I've had is that the fan is noticeable but not loud. A great product at a great price.

Fan failed just today at a little under of year of owning. Worked great before then. Fans seems replaceable but i shouldn't have to do that after only a year of running.