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Review on Syba External Enclosure Support SY ENC50122 by Josh Sharp

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Not working as expected

I moved 5 hard drives from another case. Everything works fine in there. No RAID. Errors are displayed on the front panel. I tested each drive by connecting it directly to a PC and a USB to SATA adapter. No problems or bugs of any kind. The same disc that is inserted in this case cannot be read. I'm not sure what the cause is, but a drive that reports bad works fine as a standalone drive. All drives are either Seagate or WD. Was used to use Yottamaster (which came back due to constant reboots). However, Yotamaster has a good hard drive reset switch. This device has a reset switch, but it doesn't seem to do anything other than reboot the device. A short power cable between the device and the adapter, as well as a USB cable. The body is steel (not aluminum), so it's heavy (but no big deal). I want the device to allow setting multiple profiles for RAID/NON-RAID. For example with 2 sets of RAID-0 or RAID-0 + RAID-5, RAID-0 + NON-RAID etc. Unfortunately you have to make a decision: use RAID or NOT AT ALL, you can't split volumes.

Pros
  • The eSATA interface requires a FIS-based switching port multiplier on the host computer to allow simultaneous access to multiple hard drives.
Cons
  • Expensive