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Light weight Well made Easy to set up

Slick Design Fits perfectly well

eSATA connection has a natural ability to boot, to convey SMART data, and achieve an as-if internal drive status. It's a pity that eSATA enclosures are becoming rare. Of the eSATA enclosures I've used -- including Fantec, Delock, Conrad, Raidsonic, Orico, AKiTio -- the NexStar has the best build quality and the best compatibility with a variety of HDDs, along with maximum performance.

Tested 2 bay enclosure that comes with everything you need including extra screws and screw drivers that are actually good quality and magnetic. Out of the box it's a 10 min installation to get it up and running. I'm using a mix 4TB Toshiba HDD and 10TB WD Red HDD. Tested with "large" switches toggled on enclosure. -inside enclosure drive to drive transfer speed sustained at 179mb+/second with large video files exceeding 100gb in size -port to port USB-C 3.2 across my PC from an SP A58 SSD 2TB to enclosure with same large video files was sustained and exceeded 210gb+/second I am extremely happy with this enclosure so far and will continue to test it with different RAID config. as well.

I keep movies on my bare purple HDD's .. occasionally I use a 2-Bay Dock but this 4-Bay Dock is very nice moving large files between HDD's as well as viewing all the files from Four drives at one time. I see someone here complained about the Dock rebooting while removing one HDD, that is not the case, every HDD stays powered and active while hot-swapping one for another. I'm mainly using my 17" R4 laptop with WinX if that makes a difference, but my Thinkpad T480 with WinX has the same results.

"Works like a charm" good build and easy on eyes.

Was very easy to set up and worked no problems.

Lightweight, transparent so that I can see the drive that is installed, and simple to remove the HD and install another.

I was a little leery about buying this, having been burned in times past, but I'm happy to report it does exactly what it says: Makes a true SAS hard drive visible via USB. I tested it under Linux (Kubuntu 24.04 LTS), with an old HP 146GB 2.5" drive, and experimented with both wxHexEditor and the standard Linux partition editor. I was able to, with the hex editor, literally step through every sector/byte on the drive and easily alter or search. This is a Great Thing for file recovery and similar disk forensics. As far as the partition editor goes, I was able to create a standard FAT32 partition on the SAS disk and write/read files on it. Was it the fastest thing on the planet? Of course not. You're going through the overhead of a USB port plus the USB-to-SAS bridge circuitry. But it WORKED!

Excellent speed & quiet fan.