Review on 📁 ORICO 2.5'' USB C External Hard Drive Enclosure: High-speed SATA 3.0 to USB 3.1 Gen2 Case for 2.5 Inch HDD/SSD - Max 4TB, UASP Supported (2189C3) by Matthew Nunez

Please note that this review applies to both the USB-C enclosure (the one this review is referencing) and the USB 3 Micro B enclosure - what of either Reason Revain seems to treat a USB-C case the same as a different "color" of the same case, if you will, and so can't do a separate review. Cases vary, read on for more details. Update: Rating changed from one star to three stars at the end of October 2018. The USB-C chassis is rated four (4) stars and the USB-3 chassis is rated one star. Orico's customer service gets four stars and this has progressed to three stars. Let me clarify that the chipset used in the USB-C enclosure supports speeds of USB 3. The reason for downgrading the USB-C enclosure to USB 2 is due to a faulty USB-C to USB-A cable . As for solving this problem, I managed to get my hands on two (different) perfectly good USB-C to USB-A cables that don't support USB 3.0 speeds. I ended up taking a known USB-C to USB-A USB Tri-Speed cable from another external hard drive and testing it with a USB-C enclosure, and the enclosure ended up delivering USB 3 speed: Don't push me, start with USB (protocol and physical connectors). The USB 3 Micro B case (the same connector used in other external USB 3 drives), or rather the chipset used in the case, does not transmit device data to a connected computer. Orico customer service sent a new case and it behaved exactly like the first USB 3 Micro B case. I'm sure just transferring data should be fine, but running a disk repair utility or updating the Hard drive firmware / solid state drive there will be a problem. These programs cannot identify the device in the case in any way. So if you need to take the device out of the case and put it in a different case to run these utilities, you might just want to use a different case instead. In summary, the USB-C case seems to be a good inexpensive case. for 2.5" SATA drive. The connector inside seems strong enough to withstand multiple plugging and unplugging of drives during troubleshooting. I don't recommend the USB-3 Micro B enclosure. Although this enclosure works just as well processed like the USB-C case, it uses a chipset that hides the device inside. Cable and chipset issue. Here's the original one-star review. Wait, what? Yeah, I've got my head too scratched. Plugged in an SSD and got a USB speed of 2.30MB/s. Check the Vendor ID. It's a VIA chipset. With the included USB-C e-cable. I'm trying my best to order to explain it.Ironically I can't review any other case (USB Micro-B connector) bought at the same time as this case.This site thinks I've already left a review (maybe they think this case and the other case are the same) It seems that g to be light casing (chipset and everything) with a different connector and cable. Well, not the computer it's plugged into, or some disk utilities. Here is that review. "Good: The chipset supports USB 3. Bad: Vendor ID lookup was empty, for those wondering. You may have to hack it to find out. While knowing the chipset manufacturer is important, getting hard drive information into the system is more important. Disk Utilities can detect whether a connected device is an SSD or an HD. It also looks like the chipset doesn't pass the volume name. This will be a problem when disk utilities are trying to detect the media they are working with and how they are working with that media." Considering that both cases are in some way non-functional (best of all, what i can tell is that they transfer data but i don't trust that data transfer) should this not be a problem i seriously doubt i will look into this supplier/brand behind future cases.