The title doesn’t even cover it!
This product was beautifully and thoughtfully packaged and shipped. It is beautiful, rugged and performs as advertised and exceeded my expectations. I put 4 (2) TB drives in it, spinning seagate drives and realized when you turn the unit on, the fan doesn’t automatically come on, – you will need to press the button for the fan. What I do is, turn the fan on first, then power on the drives. The fan isn’t hardly noticeable or beyond what you would expect for a small desk fan and you definitely need to run the fan, – it makes a difference.
Without the fan the drives were hot to the touch. After running all four drives on a several hour copy job on my Mac, the drives were cool to the touch when I detached them. I got the non-raid version which was the best version. At USB 3.0 speeds files copied quicker from the finder from Mac to drive or drive to drive then using Stellar Clone Drive or another program.
So, I recommend if you don’t want to run the unit with the fun, you just leave the top off. If the drives are enclosed and the top on, you gotta run the fan.
The unit is solid, and not flimsy, just beautiful. Like a tiny mainframe core on your desktop, – humming away softly.
I didn’t test the hot-swappable feature as I’ve learned with Mac OS that it doesn’t handle dismounting from ANY multiple drive dock with out ejecting them all, – as this is an issue with the USB BUS and the OS, not the dock so I didn’t even bother attempting that in the middle of a data copy. If I could give this review 20 stars, I would.
It delivered beautifully on my iMac running El Capitan.
The price as well.. was an EXCELLENT investment for the quality and functionality of this product, – once you start moving data around in the Terabytes you need reliability and stability in a product to protect your information that matters most.
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