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Syba 10000GB 5 Bay Tool Less Tray Hot Swappable 2.5" 3.5" SATA III RAID HDD External USB 3.0 Enclosure Windows MacOS SY-ENC50118
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Hardware Interface | SATA 6.0 Gb/s |
Brand | IO CREST |
Hardware Platform | Mac |
Material | Aluminum |
Item Weight | 6 Pounds |
About this item
- Supports all brands of 2.5" And 3.5" Sate I/II/III hard disk Drive up to 10TB per drive up to 5 x 10TB. Support hard drive transfer rate up to SATA III
- Raid support: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 3, RAID 5, RAID 10, span, and JBOD
- East interface requires port Multiplier w/FIS-based switching on main computer to enable access to multiple HDDs simultaneously
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Storage Capacity | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.5 | — | 4.5 | 4.5 |
Easy to use | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.6 | — | 4.0 | 4.5 |
Quality of material | 4.2 | 3.9 | 4.4 | — | 4.3 | 4.6 |
Value for money | 4.0 | 3.8 | 4.3 | — | 3.3 | 4.1 |
Tech Support | 3.2 | 3.3 | 4.0 | — | 3.5 | 3.7 |
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Tool Less HDD TrayThe tool less tray design provides a simple way of HDD installation – simply slip the HDD into the tray and easily insert or withdraw the HDDs from the enclosure. |
Support SSD or HDDSupports all brands of 2.5" and 3.5" SATA I/II/III hard disk drive up to 10TB per drive up to 5 x 6TB with a maximum support of 30TB. |
Five Indivdual Drive BayThe tray-less design provides a simple way of HDD removal and installation – simply pull the handle to insert or withdraw the HDDs. Airflow is maximized due to the high quality, quiet fans that exhaust air away from the internal HDDs. The thermally efficient aluminum maintains optimal HDD operating temperature, prolonging the life of the HDDs. |
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Technical Details
Brand | IO CREST |
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Item model number | SY-ENC50118 |
Hardware Platform | Mac |
Item Weight | 6 pounds |
Product Dimensions | 6 x 10 x 7 inches |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 6 x 10 x 7 inches |
Flash Memory Size | 1 |
Hard Drive Interface | Serial ATA-600 |
Hard Drive Rotational Speed | 0.01 RPM |
Manufacturer | Syba |
ASIN | B07MD2LPNW |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | November 30, 2018 |
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Best Sellers Rank | #432 in Enclosures |
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The Syba SY-ENC50118 5-Bay RAID system is a powerful RAID storage Management device with flexible connectivity and easy HDD access. SY-ENC50118 offers many RAID options including: RAID 0 (striping), RAID 1 (mirroring), RAID 10, RAID 5, JBOD (independent disks) and combine (span). the LED indicators provide verification of operating status and drive health/activity.
The tool less tray design provides a simple way of HDD installation. Airflow is maximized due to the high quality, quiet fans that exhaust air away from the internal HDDs. The thermally efficient aluminum maintains optimal HDD operating temperature, prolonging the life of the HDDs.
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Customers like the ease of installation, capacity and appearance of the hard drive enclosure. For example, they mention it's easy to setup and use, great for adding storage to a mini PC and that it handles large drives well. That said, some appreciate the value for money. Opinions are mixed on speed, performance, and quality.
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Customers like the ease of installation of the hard drive enclosure. They say it's very easy to setup, quick, and easy to install and remove the drives in the trays. They also say the installation takes seconds and the fans are very quiet. Customers also appreciate the excellent issues like setup and reliability with excellent craftsmanship. They mention the software will do all the configuration and that the DIP switches can actually be ignored.
"...But the latches are easy to operate (squeeze from the sides), and the trays are easy to insert and remove...." Read more
"...and the Orico unit is a 5 bay, I like the Syba much better: tool free drive installation and the unit is quieter than the Orico..." Read more
"This is a really high quality enclosure. Installing drives takes seconds and the fans are very quiet but keep things cool...." Read more
"...After hard drive install, which is quick and easy, I sat up the switches for Raid 5. My computer saw each drive using my computers disk utility...." Read more
Customers like the noise level of the hard drive enclosure. They say the back fan is very quiet, the enclosure is nice and quiet, and the large fan moves a lot of air to krrp the drives. Some mention that the drive bay has run quietly and has no difficulty mounting the drives on it. Some say that the digital software has a buzzer silence/unsilence feature that did not show with their Sans.
"...This thing cleaned up my computer setup immensely. The box is quiet (actually silent sitting on the floor next to my computer desk), compact, and in..." Read more
"...I like the Syba much better: tool free drive installation and the unit is quieter than the Orico..." Read more
"...Installing drives takes seconds and the fans are very quiet but keep things cool. Everything works as it should." Read more
"...There isn't much sound proofing in this device, so if you have loud drives, you'll hear it all, just a heads up, maybe look for drives and read..." Read more
Customers like the value of the hard drive enclosure. They say it is a relatively inexpensive basic RAID solution, and the perfect budget enclosure. Some are happy with the price and quality.
"...The Syba is a much better value." Read more
"This thing is everything I wanted at a price point that still shocks me. It is FANTASTIC...." Read more
"...and is a great alternative to having 8 separate externals at a good price...." Read more
"...AWESOME PRODUCT ! It does exactly as advertise and the price point couldn’t be better. Will be buying another for total redundancy later down the road" Read more
Customers like the capacity of the hard drive enclosure. They say it's great for adding storage to a mini PC, and it supports large drives. Some say it takes a lot less space, less USB hubs, and less wires. It's also perfect for all those spare hard drives that are lying around. It holds 8 drives and isn't very large, making it easy to fit in small places. The extra storage comes in handy for editing video, and the compact size means no big wall wort.
"...(actually silent sitting on the floor next to my computer desk), compact, and in the month since I bought it, it's worked perfectly...." Read more
"This enclosure is great for adding some additional storage to a device that doesn't have room internally...." Read more
"...It only saw 1 6TB drive, and weirdly that seems to be the case even when in a RAID 5 configuration. Setup with software is easy...." Read more
"There's not much to dislike about the enclosure. It holds 8 drives, and is a great alternative to having 8 separate externals at a good price...." Read more
Customers like the appearance of the hard drive enclosure. They say it's quiet, easy to set up and use, and seems cool. Some mention that the design is excellent and the toolless design is nice.
"...Nice clean appearance, all-black vs. some busy industrial-designer's dream, looks fine on the desk.CONS:..." Read more
"...Aside from that the unit is nice and very easy to set up and use." Read more
"...Too bad. they are pretty nice devices - but honestly they should last longer than 14 months...." Read more
"The positive :install of drives was easy,unit is quite when drives are idle..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the performance of the hard drive enclosure. Some mention that it works relatively well, is cleaner, safer, and more functional than hanging drives from their ceiling. They are also pleased with the performance, build quality, and compatibility. However, others say that it still didn't work, fell short of expectations in actual practice, and the firmware upgrade tool does not work.
"...It works like a charm on my iMac, running Mojave, and the mounted drives show up fine in Windows 10 running under Parallels...." Read more
"...Still didn't work. Maybe it wasn't really compatible with MACs (with two different versions of the operating system on them)...." Read more
"...enclosure loaded with 4 12TB worth of spinning rust, and so far no problems at all. This is connected to an Ubuntu server using mdadm...." Read more
"...Everything works as it should." Read more
Customers are mixed about the quality of the hard drive enclosure. Some mention it has great build quality, solid enclosure, and reliable performance. However, others say that the tray seems a little flimsy, with plastic connectors and fragile clips. The units may not be super reliable, and the tray and the drive clips are thin and cheap.
"...It works like a charm on my iMac, running Mojave, and the mounted drives show up fine in Windows 10 running under Parallels...." Read more
"This is a really high quality enclosure. Installing drives takes seconds and the fans are very quiet but keep things cool...." Read more
"...have to get the four drives into their carriers, as the 'clips' were so fragile, and I was worried about breaking them...." Read more
"...Right away I was very impressed with the build quality and noise level...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the speed of the hard drive enclosure. Some mention that it's very fast with 150 mbs/s in transfer mode, and the USB3 interface is fast enough to handle mechanical hard drives transfer rates. However, others say that the speed is not the greatest, there's a noticeable delay when the drives spin back on, and that the unit can only hit SATA II speeds. There's no way to control the speed.
"...The USB 3 connection should be much faster than anything you could run in this enclosure. Fan speed can be set in a few different ways...." Read more
"...this enclosure, which totals around 24TB, and so far, everything instantly pops up within MAC and Parallels Windows 11 as well...." Read more
"...Make sure you plug it into a USB 3.x port. It is abysmally slow under USB 2, but quite fast under USB 3...." Read more
"...Internal PS is killer.Very fast for spinning drives, no idea why an SSD would lose speed, so keep that in mind...." Read more
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This box is the perfect solution for that problem.
I have mounted 5 bare drives in the 8 slots of my unit, getting rid of 4 USB port cables, an extra USB hub (that often gave me issues) and 5 separate power bricks. This thing cleaned up my computer setup immensely. The box is quiet (actually silent sitting on the floor next to my computer desk), compact, and in the month since I bought it, it's worked perfectly. No unwanted disconnects, and hey, it just works!
It has a master power switch on the lower left corner of the front, to shut off power to the entire unit. And each drive slot has a switch to power down just that drive. This is very handy, since the drives are hot-swappable, and this allows you to power down only the drive you want to change out, and power up a replacement when you're ready. Within a minute or so of powering it up, the new drive appears in the computer's drive list. This also allows you to have drives "off-line", but ready to go at the touch of a button. All without dismounting the other drives in the unit.
This enclosure is NOT a RAID device. Each drive shows up as a separate disk as if it were separately connected to the computer. You could create a RAID array with RAID software if you want, but the enclosure has no such capability built in. It's a JBOD, "Just a Bunch Of Drives," which is exactly what I needed.
It's not a NAS, either. It's connected directly to the computer through USB (or a eSATA connection of you want), not to the network router. Its volumes can, however, be shared just like any other external drives within the capabilities of whatever OS you're using. It works like a charm on my iMac, running Mojave, and the mounted drives show up fine in Windows 10 running under Parallels.
(If you do as I did and use external drives removed from Seagate's proprietary cases, you'll probably have to reformat them once, because the Seagate interface does something funky to how they communicate. This box has a standard SATA interface for each slot, so any bare SATA drives will slip right in and work like a charm.) It works just like a generic external enclosure for each drive.
Yes, the box has a plastic bezel in front, but the rest of the case is made of sturdy steel. (It looks and is made much like a black medium-sized tower PC case. ) The drive trays are made of fairly light plastic with a small metal insert at the front where the latching mechanism lives. But the latches are easy to operate (squeeze from the sides), and the trays are easy to insert and remove. If you're just a bit careful with the trays when they're removed, they will work fine.
It would be nice if Syba sold the mounting trays separately, but to my knowledge they do not. The drive mounting trays do fit into the box well, the latches work, and there's plenty of ventilation for the drives, with the high/low speed selection on the internal fan.
The trays will work with standard 3.5" drives or 2.5" laptop-sized ones, and they are "toolless", since you don't need screws to mount standard drives. There are springy plastic fingers on the side of the tray that snap into the mounting hole locations on 3.5" drives. The trays have holes in the bottom (and they give you little bags of the proper screws to mount 2.5" laptop drives.)
I did have one issue when I mounted a laptop drive. The back right side spring pin hit the side of the drive since there's no hole there, so when you try to install the tray, the spring pin sticks out and makes it quite difficult to slide in. I think that particular spring pin would probably end up broken off if you did that very often. But if I was going to use those drives often, I'd probably just snap that back pin off in those trays anyway, because even with only 3 of the 4 pins in place, the drive would be more than adequately secured. So, small problem, easy solution.
My only small gripe was that there was no natural place to put labels on the front of the drive trays to indicate what drive is where. You get up to 8 drive slots, depending on the configuration you buy, and after a while, it can get clumsy to keep referring to an external key as to what drive is in what slot.
I solved that by designing and 3D printing a small 1-1/2" wide by 1" high T-shaped name plate that slides into the cooling vent between the latches (there's plenty of other space for sufficient airflow). I put a printed DYMO label on each that's easy to change if I need to. Now it's easy to tell what's where.
I did order a longer USB 3.0 cable, because the 1m/3ft. cable that came with it wouldn't easily reach to the back of the computer. When I test the speed on the drives, they are exactly the same speed as when they were individually connected before. (I didn't test the eSATA interface.)
All in all, this is exactly what I needed. I'm very happy with this Syba drive enclosure.
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10/2022
I'm now using a PC vs. my old iMac, but this box is still exactly what I need. It works just as well with the PC as it did with the iMac.
Of course, I had to reformat the drives, but that's because of the change of operating systems, not a fault of the device.
The speed is based on the interface you connect it to. I'm. My case, it's USB 3.1, and the transfer speed to WD spinning drives is about 100-12MB/s.
Not really a problem, I've been working with computers since the days of punched cards, and a color monitor meant amber or green. I have three modern computers on my desk right now, so I'm neither a novice or behind the times.
I had four drives ready for installation, all four drives checked out and working before hand, two 4TB Seagates and two 5TB Seagates. It ended up taking longer than it should have to get the four drives into their carriers, as the 'clips' were so fragile, and I was worried about breaking them. Even handling delicately, one of the eight clips broke on me. Okay, so you get what you pay for, a crappy piece of plastic is cheaper than four screws.
I installed all four drives and connected the unit directly to my computer via a known good USB 3 port, and turned it on. I can't say that nothing happened, something did, the blue power indicator on the bottom came on, and the blue power indicators on each carrier came on for maybe fifteen seconds, then began flashing, about a second on, half a second off. At the same time, I checked on the computer for the unit, and it wasn't there. Okay, maybe I overloaded the power supply. I pulled one of the drives out. Same thing, flashing power indicator and no unit present. I pulled a second drive, now down to two, surely even if I overloaded it, it should do something with just two drives. Same exact thing.
I pulled the third drive out. With one drive, it's blue power indicator remained on. But still, the unit did not appear on my computer. I rebooted twice and the symptoms remained the same. The power indicator was illuminated, but the unit did not appear on my computer.
Okay, next step, pull the last drive and see what happens. Hey, the unit finally appeared on my computer. That's something! Ha… it's not! I reinstalled a single drive, this time in the second bay. I actually got to see the unit and the drive on my computer! Even though the drive was already formatted, the computer reported that it was not. So, I reformatted the drive. Everything seemed to be going okay.
I could have tried installing a second drive at that point, but I feared that the first bay was in some way defective. I decided to move the drive that it had just recognized into the third bay. Back to the flashing power indicator. Exact same thing in the fourth bay, flashing power indicator. I moved the drive back to the second bay, where it had worked before, and surprise surprise, it no longer worked there. The drive no longer worked there, the unit was no longer visible on my computer. I tested the drive that had worked separately, in fact I retested all four drives, and all of them were working fine.
I repeated the whole fiasco, one drive moved from one bay to the next and it still didn't work. Not a good sign.
I wondered if it could be a compatibility issue, so I turned to a second computer and played the 'game' again. Still didn't work. Maybe it wasn't really compatible with MACs (with two different versions of the operating system on them). I turned to the third computer on my desk, a Linux machine, and again it didn't work.
Now come on Syba, the technology is there to do this. It shouldn't be hard to implement technology that's already there. You just wasted a good hour of my time and put me in a bad mood! If you can't produce a product that does what it claims, maybe you're in the wrong business!
I'm returning it this evening. And Syba has found it's way onto my s**t list (with a couple other incompetent Amazon sellers), I will never consider another of their products, any of their products in the future.
And Amazon take note, by allowing sellers to sell such garbage products, you're damaging your own reputation. Your only saving grace is your return policy.
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The parts are not cheap junk plastic, they're made quite well. The fan is quiet and moves enough air to keep drives at a proper temperature.
I run it without any RAID so I can't comment on that, but I've had zero issues in the few weeks I've been using it. I have it connected to a server running Debian Linux and have put it through its paces, accessing all drives, read/write tests, etc. Real-world use it performs perfectly as well.
The Windows utility is easy enough to use as well as straight-forward. The box includes a USB cable as well as an eSATA cable. The directions are clear enough, and simple enough to understand.
Definitely happy with this purchase and will buy another when the time comes.
Tengo conectados 4 hdd de 16tb cada uno y funcionan perfectamente, silencioso y por sobre todas las especificaciones, los discos no se apagan o entran en hibernacion cada cinco minutos sin que puedas camiar esa opcion, algo que es de agradecerse al fabricante. El costo es bastante accesible y por su facilidad de uso y sin hibernacion es perfecto para cualquier tipo de trabajo en oficina, industria u hogar.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 6, 2023