Review on 💾 Mediasonic 8 Bay USB 3.1 Type C 3.5-inch Hard Drive Enclosure – USB 3.1 Gen 2 10Gbps UASP/S.M.A.R.T Support | 16TB HDD (H82-SU31C) by Becki Felix

Whoever buys this device will regret it sooner or later. Read on. Well, I bought this device after looking at various Mediasonic devices with 8 Bays successfully.I'm running on a Linux server in a RAID6 configuration with NAS rated devices.The plan for my Linux server was to migrate from a USB 3.0 enclosure to this type 2 Gen 3.1 enclosure to get better throughput. ONLY good thing: I was able to move all my drives to this new device without any issues. The server recognized my RAID volume immediately and I was able to mount the device as expected. I was then able to benchmark it -Test (read only) running my RAID device with hdparm showed a performance increase of more than 4x Well of course it was exciting to see it just fall off and immediately production increased vigilance. To test the device, I turned on a movie for my family using Plex and it was surprisingly quick. I thought it would be the best purchase I've had in a while - HOWEVER, MY EXPECTATIONS WERE MET - about an hour into the movie it abruptly ended - inspiring an instant WTF moment! When I logged into the server, it turned out that my RAID array had decided to stop responding and was throwing multiple I/O errors. After that I thought maybe a reboot would get the RAID working again. but no! it would be too easy! It didn't remount the socket after a reboot. Of course, by this point I already had stable animals combined with some colorful metaphors to mentally handle this ordeal. After calming down a bit, I regained my ability to think logically about this issue and spent a couple of hours trying to figure out what the hell happened. The first obvious next step was to move all my drives back into the old 3.0 enclosure and boot again. poll says? SAME PROBLEM! At this point I had a holy shitty moment and panicked, once again creating a toxic environment for anyone who might hear me screaming through the walls. I then regained my composure by drinking Mt.Dew as a coping mechanism. BOILER RETURN: Luckily after some research I was able to put together a software RAID, but the case literally drowned out a few of my drives! By this point I had a few drinks. THE GOOD: The RAID6 configuration finally found a real use case when I was technically still able to mount my RAID (6 drives out of 8). However, if I lost the extra drives, I'd honestly be screwed! Based on other reviews and my personal experience, I suspect the device disabled some devices, which eventually led to FUBAR for the RAID. Anyone familiar with RAID systems knows that they don't work well when multiple hard drives suddenly disappear during operation! The first thing I did after rebuilding my RAID was backing everything up onto a very large external hard drive. It's just one of those things you do when "good RAIDs go bad!" -- yeah, maybe it's time to start a YouTube channel! After all I believe Mediasonic absolutely failed this particular device and unfortunately they still sell it and serve the tech community with great injustice! That pretty much sealed my deal for Mediasonic's JBOD cases. NEW HOPE: I decided to spend some more money and buy "QNAP TL-D800C 8 Bay Desktop JBOD Storage with USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C Connectivity". There aren't many reviews for this particular product at this time, which is a little concerning, BUT given QNAP's position in the industry, this was encouraging enough to give it a try. If all goes well (or not at all), I will leave a detailed review of this product.