Review on 💾 Sabrent USB 3.0 4 Bay 2.5” Hard Drive/SSD Docking Station with Fan: Efficient Storage Solution for Multiple Drives by Abdirahman Elmer

I have always loved, trusted, and purchased Sabrent products. I thought I might buy this as cheap male storage to use as a DVR for my Win 10 mini HTPC. I have a Synology DS409slim and DS416slim 2.5" NAS boxes and thought it might give me the same features as an external, side-mount USB drive on the cheap. Although I tried, I couldn't get it to work. Unfortunately, see I didn't see any functional use for this product despite the low price due to the limitation.I ended up buying another DS416slim and transferred the DVR functionality to my DS409slim as if this case could even accommodate 15mm high discs.This product had the opportunity to to replace the DS4XXslim series as the only 4-bay 2.5" device on the market. It's sad that it doesn't reach that mark by a wide margin. Fan. First of all, it's nice that it has a fan, but You probably never want to turn it on. It's very noisy. If you fill in this SSD field, you don't need it. However, if you're using closed-lid drives with no fans, they will most certainly be overheat it. Only one hard drive in this fanless box was running so hard that I feared the drive would fail prematurely. They should have allowed the fan speed to be adjusted. LED indicators. The LEDs are too bright. It would be nice to mute them or turn them off entirely. A small problem, of course, but annoying when you turn off the light and use it to watch TV in the room. No hot swap. It was a deal breaker. When drives are attached, other installed drives will reboot. Sometimes drives would not mount again and would remain offline. I used a combination of Samsung, Crucial, and Silicon Power SSDs and a WD hard drive. Although the ardvert says "Hot Swap" I haven't found that to be the case. When I formatted and then unmounted the drive and then reinstalled it in the same slot, many times the drive didn't show up in Windows Explorer. I could take the same drive and put it in a different case (Sabrent EC-RDSV) and it would show up correctly with a drive letter in explorer. Put it back in the DS-4SSD and the disc is still unreadable. If you move the drive to another DS-4SSD slot, you risk becoming unreadable. I've tried merging multiple disks into one using Disk Manager. Win 10 doesn't allow that. I tried to do the same in Storage Spaces in Win 10. It often didn't work, even though I tried many different combinations of hard drives. Every time the DS-4SSD was able to create storage space, after a short time there was an error that one of the drives was not available. Often the storage space could not be removed and the SSDs and HDDs were "walled in". I had to find a Win 7 computer and use Disk Manager and Diskpart command to fix them. After some of these drives were "bricked" and rebuilt, the DS-4SSD not only didn't recognize them, but eventually even connected them. make other "unclosed" drives disappear. Incidentally, I was able to use two Sabrent EC-RDSV cases and create and delete storage space with my drives without any problems. Something is wrong with the product or my copy. Contacting Sabrent for support is not easy. There is no support phone number. I think this product promises a lot. If it worked, it could be a lot more expensive. Anyway, it was a waste of a week of my time and $60. My wife, seeing all my frustrated attempts to get it working, convinced me to buy another DS416slim for $300. I put all my "bricked" and "non-bricked" drives in it. He formatted them without incident and merged them into a RAID5 partition with SHR. I created an iSCSI share called Drive D. I configured my Silicon Dust DVR for the iSCSI share and slept peacefully for the first time in a week. Sabrent sorry.