You will absolutely COOK those hard drives. Trust me, I did exactly that. It was with eSATA but it was the same type of system (different brand). There is not enough ventilation in that enclosure to cool that many 7,200 RPM drives sufficiently. You will spend a lot of money replacing hard drives until finally you'll come to the conclusion that your sweet drive enclosure is a hard drive torture chamber.
Yeah that fan looks like it hardly gets any airflow with the tiny gap underneath the unit. Just don't buy cheap hard drive enclosures, this is the sort of thing you don't want to cheap out on.
"It was with eSATA but it was the same type of system (different brand)" my car did the exact same thing, different model and year brand but trust me bro
This tutorial has fantastic voice audio even though the subject is very close to spinning fans... without bulky microphones in view. Really, really impressive work!
The b roll WIth that clicking noise was great and on point. Loved it. And the review was also very detailed. You earned a sub bro. Keep up the good work.
Its a good Enclosure been using it for a while now,THE Noise was annoying ,so i opened it up and replaced the fan and cable with less noisy ones and now its very very quiet.
Why is it so expensive? It's around £200 in the UK, currently. For £200, I could buy a 12 TB external drive, and copy my five drives worth of data onto it. It's just a plastic box with a tiny amount of electronics. I could get five SATA-to-USB connectors for less than a quarter the cost of this enclosure, and then how much is a small plastic box?
What a great idea. I need more space. I'm going to order this thing. This is perfect for my Plex Media Server. I'm tired of having 6 hard drives connected to my PC all the time. This is perfect.
I was wondering how these drives are doing? I have an insignia dock, that I have 2 hard drives plugged in all day everyday and was just wondering if these docks are safe to use on a daily basis. its safe on the desk from getting hit and bumped and no food or liquids go in that area of my workstation. Just curious the longevity of these docks.
I'm guessing the fan noise is fixed in newer batches? Got mine this week and the fan is audible when you only get your ear next to the dock, otherwise I can barely hear the fan with me just being a meter away. great dock, just perfect for my needs for $80
Only just got mine . Maybe they improved the fan as mine is not bothersome at all. My only complaint is hot swapping which does not work as per the manual. 2.5 inch drives fit well too but more finicky to insert.
@@groupy123987 i replace it with the NOCTUA NF-S12B REDUX-700 120MM . No its not really difficult just need to cut the original 2 pin connector and connect it to the new fan because is not the same ...if you are not used to do things like this it will be better someone else to do it for you .
Don't understand comment at :50 second mark...."Maximum supported hard drive size of 10 Terabytes" Each hard drive added can not exceed 10 TB? Is that to what you are referring? What of the physical size of the hard drive...ie lap top hard drives ... can they be used?
pretty cool. Would be amazing if there was an LED light right next to each of the drive bays to let the user know when its safe to yank the ol bank out.
I just picked up a 2 slot HDD dock for my desk top, worked like a charm. My favorite part is being able to turn it off when I don't need it to cut down on noise
Yeah being able to turn it off easily is a good way to cut down on noise. This 5-Bay dock will go to sleep after what seems like 10 or 15 minutes of no activity. But sometimes I will manually turn it off if I need quiet right away lol
But my hard drives are 16 terabytes each, I haven't seen the whole video yet, curious if the slightly more expensive usb 3.1 model which looks to be redesigned can handle the larger drives but more-importantly has anyone heard the fans when running on the newer one? ☹
May I ask you something? Is the unit still functioning? I have used 4 of their HDD Dock and within 2 years they all die. In my country I can't find a suitable replacement I ended up using this brand again and again.
I have used one of these but a diferent brand with USB 3 interface for years. I tried to switch to an Oyen usb-c and it was a fail. The only problem I have had with these is they constantly lose connection with the computer and that Windows keeps having to find it again. Pretty annoying that the drives just won't stay logged on. It gets worse when you try to use longer USB cables.
Hi There, Thank you for your detailed review, I have just ventured into a HDD Dock for the first time (Icy Box 4 bay) (no fan, used just for image storage) Question: Are there any Good HDD docks/enclosures out there that do not have noisey fans or Can a quite fan be retrofitted to the Orico 5 bay in your review, looks like a great product ..........Gary .......................AU
That is the 64k dollar question. This enclosure does NOT do RAID. With a proper RAID enclosure, you can build a RAID-5 array and you are safe. Downside is, you lose 10TB of the 50 for parity, but that is a small price to pay for peace of mind.
@@heijxje You can do software RAID through Windows. However i should note that RAID5 is not ideal, and a lot of people advise to stay away from RAID5 and prefer RAID6 instead or maybe RAID10.
Question. I bought this docking station. Same one you have. The new hard drives I bought are called Seagate BarraCuda 2TB Internal Hard Drive HDD - 3.5 inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 256MB Cache. When put the hard drives into the bays they lean to the side. Yours do not seem to do this. What type of Hard Drives are you using?
Can't control/manage ORICO software created RAIDs when you transfer the usb to linux. It reads the whole RAID as a superblock. but you can't have any info on whether the disks are failing or something like that.
Thanks much for the video,! Can this be plugged into a router with usb to share on the network? Would be nice if I don't have to move the unit to different computers or leave one computer on to share to the other. TIA
I'd be using this with 2TB SSDs instead, so the fan would literally never need to be connected, and then the question (that no one seems to have an answer to) is: how fast is it really? Because a whole bunch of these solutions end up offering nowhere near the theoretical max 5gbps speeds that USB3 offers, or even the 550 mbps that any modern SSD is capable of, instead running at maybe 125mbps read/write... do you still have this unit? If so, how does it perform with SSDs in it rather than HDD?
So, are we not gonna talk about the fact that the drives are just sitting in the designated drive slots loosey-goosey? The holes for the 3.5 drives are wayyy too big. When you slide the 3.5 drive in and connect it, there's roughly a cm or more of space where the drive can wobble. That can't be good for the drive's connectors. I'm appalled that they wouldn't offer a bay sider or some other apparatus to lock the drives in place.
Hello ECPU! I am wondering if you know how to get into this external drive enclosure (disassemble it) to get to the fan. This looks exactly like what I need, but I would NOT be able to deal with a cooling fan that sounds like that so I would want to replace it with Noctua fan for silence.
I have a iMac 27" late 2015. I discovered none of the drives can be used as system startups, not SSD or anything. SSD's go in fine but they are so tiny, far down and tight to the corner it takes tiny fingers to reach in their and pull it out. I won't recognized a 16TB Seagate EXOS 7200rpm. It sleeps so it takes a while for the drives to spin up before your system unfreezes, in some cases the drives are NOT available and the Mac things the folders are empty. The fan is really noisy. Its nice to hear someone swapped it out with a noctua, I might try that. The USB-C connector is nice. The magnatic lid is nice. I have a 4-bay Mediasonic horizontal mount, these things vibrated out of position, which is the reason I wanted a vertical install. The Mediasonic is a dust magnet, this unit so far is not.
Can't get drive to actually work. It either doesn't show it in diskmanagement or it shows it as a partitioned drive of 2tb of a simple volime and 10tb of unallocated but It won't let me do anything on either partition. I put it into another caddy and it shows proper 12tb blank formatted drive. So when I put it into this device somehting is fucking up what it is reading and it is the same drive type that the other two working ones in it are.
Did you configure the drives in a RAID arrangement? And, if so, can the array be recognized regardless of whether you're running Windows or Linux or other operating systems? Thanks, for the review!
The one in the video is a jbod enclosure, you can get a raid enclosure that usually has dip switches on the back to set raid 0, 1, 5, and some can do raid 10.
After you make a raid(5 in my case) It is recognized in linux as a single block device, but you can't monitor in linux. If a drive is failing..you don't have a way of knowing.
After a recent data loss I'm planning on a simple solution consisting of 2 1TB WD Blue drives. What USB 3+ enclosure would you recommend? I have not decided yet whether it should be a single drive or a dual drive dock.
Qnap enclosure configured in RAID5 and never look back. These Chinese brand eigher doesn't sell this kind of product with raid build in (NEVER do RAID using USB. Let the enclosure hardware do it) or their RAID software totally suck. I got one with RAID5 support but it was never able to reconstruct a drive.
Jarod Pretender 4 minutes ago i've encountered problem in detecting 5 hdds 4tb each (brand new unformatted) in my orico 5 bays enclosure as i inserted 5 hdds into it & fitted accordingly then pressed the on button behind as 5 of the unformatted lights up then lastly on the 1st top bay got light & the rest of the 4 hdds led goes off. checked in the computer mgmt only the 1st bay raw hdd were detected as the rest nothing. I've checked individual disk putting into 1st bay is detected each one not at 5 hdds together. Any solution to this ? I've tried another desktop pc same results as well. WINs 10 & WINs 7 are facing the same issue. Please advise. Thanks
Hi Jarod, have you already solved this problem? If not, would you mind contact us with the disk management screenshot? Our technician will help you to solve it.
It can do Windows Storage Spaces RAID config. ORICO 5 Bay USB 3.0 to SATA Chia External Hard Drive Enclosure for 3.5 inch HDD Support 80TB (5 x 16TB) Aluminum Alloy RAID Enclosure Support RAID Mode Storage.
You will absolutely COOK those hard drives. Trust me, I did exactly that. It was with eSATA but it was the same type of system (different brand). There is not enough ventilation in that enclosure to cool that many 7,200 RPM drives sufficiently. You will spend a lot of money replacing hard drives until finally you'll come to the conclusion that your sweet drive enclosure is a hard drive torture chamber.
put a small metal fan on the front to keep it cool, always use the same brand and compatible
Is there some kind of source or info about these failing?
i don't know but you can google it
Yeah that fan looks like it hardly gets any airflow with the tiny gap underneath the unit. Just don't buy cheap hard drive enclosures, this is the sort of thing you don't want to cheap out on.
"It was with eSATA but it was the same type of system (different brand)" my car did the exact same thing, different model and year brand but trust me bro
How was this after a year+ of usage? Just curious. Thanks
Any updates on this unit? Are you still using it or have you moved on? If moved on, could you provide a reason on why? Thanks.
This tutorial has fantastic voice audio even though the subject is very close to spinning fans... without bulky microphones in view. Really, really impressive work!
The b roll WIth that clicking noise was great and on point. Loved it. And the review was also very detailed. You earned a sub bro. Keep up the good work.
Its a good Enclosure been using it for a while now,THE Noise was annoying ,so i opened it up and replaced the fan and cable with less noisy ones and now its very very quiet.
Two questions please? (1) Do the drives appear as one block or do they show as 5x individual drives, and (2) how has the unit held up the last 2 yrs?
The drives show up individually, unless you use a RAID (Software)
This guy really know how to make a video great job dude
Just like Kramer installing AC on Seinfeld's window. "Installed!"
Why is it so expensive? It's around £200 in the UK, currently. For £200, I could buy a 12 TB external drive, and copy my five drives worth of data onto it. It's just a plastic box with a tiny amount of electronics. I could get five SATA-to-USB connectors for less than a quarter the cost of this enclosure, and then how much is a small plastic box?
Excellent video and perfect description of this device.
Are those drives registered individually to the OS or is the controller creating some sort of arry?
What a great idea. I need more space. I'm going to order this thing. This is perfect for my Plex Media Server. I'm tired of having 6 hard drives connected to my PC all the time. This is perfect.
it's a nice solution for some extra space quickly.
@@ECPUz: Can I even buy 5x20TB and like add the total of 100TB
can i connect directly to my smart tv usb port
Great review, thanks for the vid!
I was wondering how these drives are doing? I have an insignia dock, that I have 2 hard drives plugged in all day everyday and was just wondering if these docks are safe to use on a daily basis. its safe on the desk from getting hit and bumped and no food or liquids go in that area of my workstation. Just curious the longevity of these docks.
is it still working today?
I'm guessing the fan noise is fixed in newer batches? Got mine this week and the fan is audible when you only get your ear next to the dock, otherwise I can barely hear the fan with me just being a meter away. great dock, just perfect for my needs for $80
You sure you got this one ? Only 80 bucks ? Where from ?
$80 or 80 GB
Very nice video
Thanks!
how about now bro? does thing still rocking?
Do you still have this orico dock? If so does it still work? I’m looking to get one soon
Only just got mine . Maybe they improved the fan as mine is not bothersome at all. My only complaint is hot swapping which does not work as per the manual. 2.5 inch drives fit well too but more finicky to insert.
Thanks for the review. Regarding the loud noise, does the fan keeps making noise also when it's on but not actively using it?
yeap always is loud i have the same one....i ve change the fan with a noctua and now is ok :)
@@arxigos21 Hi, which model did you replace the current fan with? Is it quieter? Is it difficult to replace?
@@groupy123987 i replace it with the NOCTUA NF-S12B REDUX-700 120MM . No its not really difficult just need to cut the original 2 pin connector and connect it to the new fan because is not the same ...if you are not used to do things like this it will be better someone else to do it for you .
Don't understand comment at :50 second mark...."Maximum supported hard drive size of 10 Terabytes"
Each hard drive added can not exceed 10 TB? Is that to what you are referring?
What of the physical size of the hard drive...ie lap top hard drives ... can they be used?
holy crap, the girl was giving me shocks in start by dumping the drives like that.
After 3 years, are you still using it? Hows the reliability ? I am getting lots of mix review on the DAS is very slow.
on your link Amazon says it supports 5x16TB (not 5x10TB). have you tried a bigger drive?
@jmventertainment7 thank you :) i'll get it !!
Great video and product bro
Is the fan able to be changed out to something like a noctua or be quiet fan?
Any update after 4 years?
I clicked on the CAN link and it says 80TB Capacity???
Nice video thanks. Is it any good for editing? Also does it support RAID?
Can this be used to install 2.5" HDDs?
How long it will last ?
very good instruction and useful information. thank you for sharing
Is there an update to this on how well it has worked after a year?
can it run any higher drives than 10tb?
I wonder what the long term implications of having magnets by your discs for potentially years.
Those are sick camera angles and transtions.
Y'all thirsty mofos starin at her butt in slowmo.
pretty cool. Would be amazing if there was an LED light right next to each of the drive bays to let the user know when its safe to yank the ol bank out.
How does it perform while copying between drives? Or using multiple drives at once?
I need orico bay USB external hard drive, Need as fast transfer?
What happens when you try to use a drive that’s larger than 10 TB? I have a 12TB drive
I just picked up a 2 slot HDD dock for my desk top, worked like a charm. My favorite part is being able to turn it off when I don't need it to cut down on noise
Yeah being able to turn it off easily is a good way to cut down on noise. This 5-Bay dock will go to sleep after what seems like 10 or 15 minutes of no activity. But sometimes I will manually turn it off if I need quiet right away lol
The intro should serve as a visual on how to prematurely fail a hard drive prematurely and how to run into a door.. 👍🏻
But my hard drives are 16 terabytes each, I haven't seen the whole video yet, curious if the slightly more expensive usb 3.1 model which looks to be redesigned can handle the larger drives but more-importantly has anyone heard the fans when running on the newer one? ☹
I don't care about your storage needs. I was only here for the thumbnail. LOL
Price?
how is it doing?
May I ask you something? Is the unit still functioning? I have used 4 of their HDD Dock and within 2 years they all die. In my country I can't find a suitable replacement I ended up using this brand again and again.
Wow I actually wonder what you do with them cuz they are not designed for intense usage
What is that EVGA on the desk where everything is connected to?
Wondering if I can do 5Bay 80TB of storage and waht drives would I PURCHASE????
Does it go into powersaving mode? (Spin the disks down?)… I want to use this with proxmox but powersaving can cause issues
I have used one of these but a diferent brand with USB 3 interface for years. I tried to switch to an Oyen usb-c and it was a fail. The only problem I have had with these is they constantly lose connection with the computer and that Windows keeps having to find it again. Pretty annoying that the drives just won't stay logged on. It gets worse when you try to use longer USB cables.
Do u recommend this over NAS?
Are the disks getting warm ?
yes. just open top cover and using fan
have had bad experiences in past with drives standing up let me know how you workout
Do they have to be same size?
I would replace the fan with a Noctua. Also, add a thick sticky pad to each of the feet to raise it up a few millimeters, so as to ease air flow.
I actually did that and replaced the cable too,and i can confirm this works,lot more quiet
Let's say you plug in 5 hard drives, will Windows see 5 different hard drives in the Disk manager or will it only see one?
Can I take like my old hdd from my HP and install in my dell system?
Hi There,
Thank you for your detailed review, I have just ventured into a HDD Dock for the first time (Icy Box 4 bay) (no fan, used just for image storage)
Question: Are there any Good HDD docks/enclosures out there that do not have noisey fans
or
Can a quite fan be retrofitted to the Orico 5 bay in your review, looks like a great product
..........Gary
.......................AU
What happens if one of the drives fail, would you still be able to access your files?
That is the 64k dollar question. This enclosure does NOT do RAID. With a proper RAID enclosure, you can build a RAID-5 array and you are safe. Downside is, you lose 10TB of the 50 for parity, but that is a small price to pay for peace of mind.
@@heijxje You can do software RAID through Windows. However i should note that RAID5 is not ideal, and a lot of people advise to stay away from RAID5 and prefer RAID6 instead or maybe RAID10.
Is it possible to shut down Orico in PC, instead of using the switch?
How about Mac OS any good ?
Question. I bought this docking station. Same one you have. The new hard drives I bought are called Seagate BarraCuda 2TB Internal Hard Drive HDD - 3.5 inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 256MB Cache. When put the hard drives into the bays they lean to the side. Yours do not seem to do this. What type of Hard Drives are you using?
In the video I had Western Digital Blue HDD's
That BarraCuda is slimer than original HDD (i have it to) and realize when compared with my old & fat HDD
Want to buy one! Hope is still working!?
Does this has RAID feature?
Hi! Maybe someona can help.
Any way to disable the auto sleep mode?? Its anoying and I cant work that way
Thanks!
How much cost
How hot does the enclosure get?
can u get a usb to hdmi cable for the back of this as a lot of 4k/blu files can't be viewed on a tv as it requires hdmi for mkv playback..
can i put an ssd drive in there? as long as the ports line up it should work right? i know its not a optimal idea but im just asking if it will work
Can't control/manage ORICO software created RAIDs when you transfer the usb to linux. It reads the whole RAID as a superblock. but you can't have any info on whether the disks are failing or something like that.
It can be use even offline?
Is this good for downloading steam games from a laptop?
Thanks much for the video,! Can this be plugged into a router with usb to share on the network? Would be nice if I don't have to move the unit to different computers or leave one computer on to share to the other. TIA
Can you use this to download steam games?
Show your pc setup!! Especially how you fix those hard disks ( in portrait mode)in the case.
Does it have disconnecting issue like some other hdd box?
I'd be using this with 2TB SSDs instead, so the fan would literally never need to be connected, and then the question (that no one seems to have an answer to) is: how fast is it really? Because a whole bunch of these solutions end up offering nowhere near the theoretical max 5gbps speeds that USB3 offers, or even the 550 mbps that any modern SSD is capable of, instead running at maybe 125mbps read/write... do you still have this unit? If so, how does it perform with SSDs in it rather than HDD?
So, are we not gonna talk about the fact that the drives are just sitting in the designated drive slots loosey-goosey? The holes for the 3.5 drives are wayyy too big. When you slide the 3.5 drive in and connect it, there's roughly a cm or more of space where the drive can wobble. That can't be good for the drive's connectors. I'm appalled that they wouldn't offer a bay sider or some other apparatus to lock the drives in place.
Would NAS drives work here?
I am not much into tech but does it support SSD?
Can i split it into two pc? act as a mini server?
Hello ECPU! I am wondering if you know how to get into this external drive enclosure (disassemble it) to get to the fan. This looks exactly like what I need, but I would NOT be able to deal with a cooling fan that sounds like that so I would want to replace it with Noctua fan for silence.
Can I use this for PS4 also.
Can I plug in to television?
Yo have you tried raid 0 speeds?
Have you or anyone had success with the Orico software expanding the Raid with a bigger HDD? If not, do you have any recommendations?
I have a iMac 27" late 2015. I discovered none of the drives can be used as system startups, not SSD or anything. SSD's go in fine but they are so tiny, far down and tight to the corner it takes tiny fingers to reach in their and pull it out.
I won't recognized a 16TB Seagate EXOS 7200rpm.
It sleeps so it takes a while for the drives to spin up before your system unfreezes, in some cases the drives are NOT available and the Mac things the folders are empty.
The fan is really noisy. Its nice to hear someone swapped it out with a noctua, I might try that.
The USB-C connector is nice. The magnatic lid is nice.
I have a 4-bay Mediasonic horizontal mount, these things vibrated out of position, which is the reason I wanted a vertical install. The Mediasonic is a dust magnet, this unit so far is not.
Can't get drive to actually work. It either doesn't show it in diskmanagement or it shows it as a partitioned drive of 2tb of a simple volime and 10tb of unallocated but It won't let me do anything on either partition. I put it into another caddy and it shows proper 12tb blank formatted drive. So when I put it into this device somehting is fucking up what it is reading and it is the same drive type that the other two working ones in it are.
Did you configure the drives in a RAID arrangement? And, if so, can the array be recognized regardless of whether you're running Windows or Linux or other operating systems? Thanks, for the review!
The one in the video is a jbod enclosure, you can get a raid enclosure that usually has dip switches on the back to set raid 0, 1, 5, and some can do raid 10.
After you make a raid(5 in my case) It is recognized in linux as a single block device, but you can't monitor in linux. If a drive is failing..you don't have a way of knowing.
After a recent data loss I'm planning on a simple solution consisting of 2 1TB WD Blue drives. What USB 3+ enclosure would you recommend? I have not decided yet whether it should be a single drive or a dual drive dock.
Qnap enclosure configured in RAID5 and never look back.
These Chinese brand eigher doesn't sell this kind of product with raid build in (NEVER do RAID using USB. Let the enclosure hardware do it) or their RAID software totally suck.
I got one with RAID5 support but it was never able to reconstruct a drive.
Jarod Pretender
4 minutes ago
i've encountered problem in detecting 5 hdds 4tb each (brand new unformatted) in my orico 5 bays enclosure as i inserted 5 hdds into it & fitted accordingly then pressed the on button behind as 5 of the unformatted lights up then lastly on the 1st top bay got light & the rest of the 4 hdds led goes off. checked in the computer mgmt only the 1st bay raw hdd were detected as the rest nothing. I've checked individual disk putting into 1st bay is detected each one not at 5 hdds together.
Any solution to this ? I've tried another desktop pc same results as well. WINs 10 & WINs 7 are facing the same issue.
Please advise. Thanks
Hi Jarod, have you already solved this problem? If not, would you mind contact us with the disk management screenshot? Our technician will help you to solve it.
Great review, can i use this on my TrueNAS??
Nice. How hot do the drives get while idling and under load?
It can do Windows Storage Spaces RAID config. ORICO 5 Bay USB 3.0 to SATA Chia External Hard Drive Enclosure for 3.5 inch HDD Support 80TB (5 x 16TB) Aluminum Alloy RAID Enclosure Support RAID Mode Storage.
can i use this for security cameras data. is it fast enough to save video?
Can it work on ps4 pro ?