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Review on πŸ’Ώ Inateck 3.5 Inch HDD Enclosure: High-Speed USB 3.0 Mesh Case with UASP Support - SA01003 by Lamar Vanderburg

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Robust, expandable and flexible USB3 housing

I use this housing mainly for transferring raw video from on-site cameras. Get a full 240-250MB/s over USB3 on Seagate Barracuda, Exo drives. I like it because it's slim and doesn't take up valuable space in my Pelican travel case. Fully expandable to any SATA3 hard drive and any capacity. Looking forward to a 20TB Sata3 hard drive in 2021. Toolless is a nice key feature that allows me to quickly swap out other 16TB Ironwolf and Exos x16 hard drives. No problem with disabling USB3. The Thunderbolt 2 and 3 case has random disconnects that are nerve wracking and cost me more money to fix and repeat. I can handle write speeds of 250MB/s for a single drive, compared to an unreliable 1000MB/s Thunderbolt Raid 5 enclosure and drives that have to be rebuilt when 4 drives randomly fail. I don't miss raids at all. It's simple and very reliable on Mac and PC. And USB3 is more widespread and can run on standby PC when the main PC fails. I feel more secure with USB3 than Thunderbolt 2-3. Usb3 has served me well for the past 7 years.

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