Review on Syba SY MRA55006 Mobile Extra Black by Julie Silva

I bought this in June 2015, it failed completely in May 2018. So expect maybe 3 years from one of these. I didn't abuse, I enjoyed. I've repaired many PCs, using them to replace hard drives for info retrieval, partitioning, formatting, etc. The two extra USB slots came in handy once or twice. Eventually I started getting 0xc000000f and various other errors from every drive that tried to boot from this thing, intermittently at first, then more frequently. For a week I couldn't boot without this error, not once. I went nuts for a day trying to figure this out as one of the causes of this problem is a bad plug/cable and my cables were fine. Then a thought occurred to me: this hot-swap bay was between the SATA cable and the drive itself, so I pulled out the drive and plugged it straight into the motherboard and everything was fine. dies. This might be why I'm also having a few "ghost" issues in my BIOS, like my Samsung 850EVO being recognized as a 1TB WD drive in UEFI (still boots fine) and too many other small ones strange things to list them. I've had numerous inexplicable micropartitions over the past year before getting 0xc000000f issues, even on Gparted. Even when the bay was new, it had trouble seeing both drives in the bay on several occasions, sometimes just one. In the end, I really appreciate how much easier it was to fix PCs in the past, but it's not worth the heartache. in small things, the host computer has been causing it for many years. I'll end this review by saying that if you're changing a lot of hard drives, you'll save a lot of time by disassembling cases and connecting hard drives for simple formats or extracting data if you do it enough. If you only do something like this a few times in the next few years, I would suggest skipping the hot-swap bay, that's a very tricky part and increases the chance of a failure somewhere in your PC, unlike SATA cables cheaper and more reliable. .