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Review on πŸ“ HornetTek USB 3.0 Dual Bay 2.5" HDD / SDD Enclosure with RAID 0 and RAID 1 for Notebook Size HDDs by Troy Simpson

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Half the price of other cases and works great

I've bought 4TB and 5TB 2.5 drives for some laptops and found them thicker than usual. I decided to leave the floppy disks and throw them in the suitcase. The first thing I like is the price. All other cases I found were double the price! At just over $20, the price couldn't be better. The body itself looks beautiful. It has an aluminum front panel and black plastic on the sides. The LEDs are blue and green and not too bright. Most devices have headlights for their status lights, so it was nice to find one with a dimmed LED backlight. The drives were very easy to install in the housing. There are two slots that drives go into and then 4 screw holes for each drive. The case comes with all the necessary screws plus two extra ones. After connecting the case, I ran CrystalDiskMark. Read/write speeds were exactly the same as advertised for the drives. I have traditional hard drives so I'm not sure what the throughput will be with SDD. Since USB 3 is used, the throughput should be close to that of a traditional SATA III port. All in all a very nice case, does what it says on the tin, no bandwidth issues and the price was much cheaper than other cases.

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