Review on 📁 Syba SY-ENC50104 4 Bay 3.5” SATA III HDD Non-RAID Enclosure – USB 3.0 & eSATA Interface, Black by Terry Napoleon

The 8 drive bay worked fine with 6 of my drives attached: 10TB, 8TB, 2x 6TB and 2x 4TB. Thermal performance was good, fans were quiet, speeds were slow but acceptable (although USB 3.0 supports 600MB/s on paper, ALL drives account for around 150MB/s). Why a star? I/O errors are displayed randomly. There's no real rhyme or reason for this, but sometimes the drive went completely offline and disappeared from explorer OR popped up and showed my folders, but any attempt to open them resulted in an I/O disk read error. These drives had no problems before they were put in the case and after they were put back in my car (originally got this because I wanted to change my case, but a mid-tower with 6+ 3.5" bays like my phantom 410 wanted to find there is no problem). easier task) leads me to believe that the hull is to blame. There's also a nasty little design flaw that Syba told me as expected behavior: drives will hibernate after a period of inactivity, regardless of any setting in Windows, be it USB hibernation settings or HDD hibernation settings. This is a problem when using them for a media server like me. There's a noticeable delay when the drives power back on, and almost always I've gotten that dreaded I/O error when the drive wakes up. Faced with this I/O error, the only way to fix it is to physically power cycle the drive or the entire enclosure. Not a perfect solution and I couldn't safely eject the drive every time because Windows told me the drive was in use. If you value your data, I wouldn't use it as a daily driver. Possibly as an in-place backup, but if you really want to USE the installed drives regularly, look elsewhere.