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Review on πŸ”₯ Syba 5 Bay Tool Less Tray Hot Swappable External USB 3.0 Enclosure for SATA III RAID HDD - Windows MacOS Compatible by Hassan Tomlinson

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Very nice raid tower with raid 5

I bought two of these devices. One replaced five 3TB WD Red drives pulled from a Sans Digital 5-bay hardware raid, and all ended up with data intact. I formatted the data anyway and copied it back. Lots of videos. It went from 150Mbps to 200Mbps according to Windows 10's file transfer. Another replaced the four-bay Sans Digital Tower, and all the data from the WD Red 5TB drives popped up right away. So I like that it's interchangeable with my Sans Digital towers. Both units are compatible with Sans Digital software and even have a mute/mute buzzer feature which didn't work with my Sans Digital towers. I was able to destroy the raid 5 and add another WD Red 5TB to get all 5TB in the raid 5. I used Sans Digital's software to destroy and rebuild the raid, so I didn't try to set the dip switches, although they are set to Raid 5 on Sans Digital, they each ran at 100-130Mbps or so when copied to disk. In these kits they are 150-200 Mb / s - noticeably faster. I am very happy with the performance, build quality and especially the compatibility with Sans Digital Raid interchangeability in case one of my towers fails and I need to replace to save data. Sans Digital is hard to come by and I assume they have been discontinued. Not sure as I only recently discovered these and could only find them in stock at Revain, although they were out of stock and are back and out of stock as of this review.

Pros
  • Hard drive accessories
Cons
  • Slightly torn