Rosewill RX307-PU3-35B - 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure - SATA III, USB 3.0, Energy Saving, UASP, Black Aluminum & ABS Plastic

Pros: these are super for using a regular hd as a cloud storage on your network and it turns off if not being accessed

Cons: none

Overall Review: You just can't go wrong and these work so well for streaming video, music and so on even out of town when you can't find a movie worth watching at your hotel ( Given bandwidth is good). also can show pictures to people you visit w/o having to have your camera filled. So many ways to use this and even as a business it can be sooo useful.

Pros: Nice Retail Packaging. Simple to install, along with Your choice of 3.5" SATA HDD Fast Backups! Runs Cool! UASP is the key to all!

Cons: That this wasn't available 5 years ago. Sides of case could be slightly thicker for even better cooling, yet it shouldn't prevent one from purchase.

Overall Review: Just days after getting my 1st of these enclosures & seeing how fast the backups were, as well as how cool the drives ran, had to get another. It was on the 2nd one that I discovered what UASP is about, and how it affects data transfer. The technology is much faster than the USB 3.0 enclosures of 2-3 years ago, and is also featured in some 2.5" stand alone USB 3.0 backup cables on this site, of which I have one of those as well with equal results. The cool thing about UASP is that it keeps the speeds way up there, meaning backup/restores are faster than ever. There may be an occasional drop, yet it's just for a couple of seconds at the most. Rosewill has struck Gold with this unit, and it's the best of their items I've ever purchased. As long as they can maintain quality control, and more readers sees these type of reviews, Rosewill & Newegg won't be able to keep these in stock. This is one of the few items that even if regularly priced, I say it's worth every cent. Get one of these while on promo, once the word is out, the promos will end. Thank You, Rosewill, for an Outstanding Quality product with this device!

Pros: + Drive is secured with screws to the main plate, which is then secured with screws to the body. Holds everything firm + Power and USB cables are long + Windows 10 recognized it right away, formatting was easy, it all works. But...

Cons: - Transfer speed is awful. Using the same hard drive (a Toshiba 3TB) as I use in a different external enclosure, it averages 60-80MB/s compared to a different external enclosure which averages 130-150MB/s. Same drive, same USB port, same computer, same everything but this enclosure runs at half the speed.

Overall Review: I only use this for weekly backups and I don't create a ton of new data each week, so it's not worth the hassle of returning and replacing it. However, I would not recommend this enclosure.

Pros: Works under Gentoo linux. Kernel 4.7.3 , MSI z170 gaming m3 motherboard. Smartmontools work. Seagate NAT 4TB drive. Empty drive got 140 MB/s transfer speed on GB file.

Cons: Not Tool-less. Some screws are super tiny. Would not use this if I was going to be swapping drives.

Overall Review: Be sure to assemble some place you can locate microscopic screws (if you drop them)

Pros: It works with Ubuntu 14.04. Even better, it works with smartmontools. (Use smartctl -d sat ... or smartctl -d sat,12 ... ). It also works with Inateck Superspeed 7 Ports PCI-E to USB 3.0 Expansion Card. And it's not much more money than several similar products that don't work at all with Linux, and/or don't work with smartmontools, and/or don't work reliably, and/or don't work longer than a few minutes.

Cons: I wish I could buy these more cheaply without the power supplies, screwdrivers, and USB 3 cables. I'd probably buy a couple dozen of them.

Pros: Supports 8TB drives! Cheap! Mostly aluminum construction. 1 minute assembly with included screwdriver. Has a physical power-off switch.

Cons: None I can find. Fairly thin aluminum; could be dented easily if dropped.

Overall Review: Wanted an external enclosure for my OEM Seagate 8TB HDD (I bought OEM since their bare drives have a 3yr warranty vs the 2yr on their pre-built external drives) and because I intend to use this for off-site backups. Chose this enclosure on a whim because Newegg says it supported 6TB hard drives so I figured it was worth the gamble (and since it was so cheap). Imagine my surprise that it included everything I needed (including a screwdriver!) to add the drive and assemble the drive in under a minute. Then all it took was plugging it into my windows 7 box, pulling up diskmgmt.msc, formatting it GPT + New partition and voila! I was copying files in under 10 minutes. The completed assembly is only about 20% larger than the HDD inside and it adds almost no additional weight. Great experience overall! Kudos to Newegg for a great product! I couldn't be happier! :)

Pros: It's very simple to assemble and set up, and the one thing I didn't notice from the pics - it's tiny! Not much larger than a 3.5" drive by itself. Though the ends are plastic, the 'sleeve' is metal, and the mount points for the drive are as well. I'm running an old 1 TB WD Black drive in it and speeds are solid and consistent. Temps are OK so far, which I'm watching (see cons).

Cons: There are a couple of cons with an enclosure this inexpensive, though: the case doesn't have much support for the drive so you won't want to use it as a portable unless you add some extra pads inside (I did); and it also doesn't have *any* ventilation, so I wouldn't put a hot-running drive in it for long term use.

Overall Review: Still, I got two of these for the price of one in a recent Flash Sale, so I can't complain. :D

Pros: Solid build Has a switch to save power Conserves space

Cons: Not stackable