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Review on ๐Ÿ“ฆ TERRAMASTER D2-310 USB Type C External Hard Drive RAID Enclosure - High-Speed USB3.1 (Gen1) 2-Bay RAID Storage with RAID 0/1/Single Support (Diskless) by Jeff Jemison

Revainrating 3 out of 5

I bought 3, will get more!

Very happy with these units. I have 3 of these and they work GREAT with my Macs. I used to use eSATA/SATA towers but found USB 3.0 to be fast enough for me, especially on a gigabit network (probably bottleneck). I've used this side-by-side with a Thunderbolt 2 box I got and they were comparable (perhaps the bottleneck is the hard drive speed as I mostly have 5400rpm drives). I was able to guide customers through installing drives in the sled. I mainly use 3.5" drives, but I think I eventually added a 2.5" drive as well. I am using a Mac software RAID to create JBOD disk groups. For example, 4TB and 6TB together make a 10TB drive. If your Mac is strangely shutting down/putting your drives to sleep, just go to System Preferences -> Sleep and uncheck "Put hard drives to sleep when possible". Hard drives will not hibernate unless you eject them. You might not even love it, so it's not necessary, but I had so many things plugged into my aging MacBook that it seemed to help my stability. I will get more of this. Excellent value for money and quality

Pros
  • Easy setup
Cons
  • Zero