[36.00 W] I bought this for use with a 22TB HDD that I'd bought to archive a large engineering project I'd recently completed. So far, so good. It's rugged, and the hard drive's temperatures topped out at 40C. It gets along fine with Linux; I saw no errors reported. Performance is on par with what other reviewers have mentioned.

[Aluminum] Love the build, good fan for keeping the temperature down, and activity indicator light is nice and the power light is a nice bright white to let you know it's on. The fan is audible but it's fair considering that you don't feel any heat from the enclosure. I've already copied 8TB's of data on the first day for 10 hours nonstop. No hitching. The extra usb c port on the back to attach an additional hard drive to it is also a nice touch. Currently using it with a Seagate Ironwolf Pro 18TB and works like a charm. Easy setup. Getting consistent 200 MB/s transfer speeds with Fastcopy.

[22 TB] I tried several enclosures and I finally think I found a winner. This thing is solid. Really solid and the fan is so quiet I didn't think it worked at first. However you can definitely feel it. Seriously good bye especially when you can switch HDDs out as your needs change for more storage.

[ 3.5" HDD ] We only have a couple of these but will be getting more in the future.

[Yes] I like the on/off switch, so I can turn it off when not in use for backups. The exterior metal housing stays cool, and the drive is quiet. The front lights up so you know when it's working. But the light is not overly bright to distract you.

[36.00 W] I am a professional videographer and editor and my editing system is set up so I can fly effortlessly on it. However, because some of my peripherals are supported by older OS it is difficult to find external drives that are supported by an older OS as well as still have FW800 ports. OWC ticked both boxes so I bought an 8TB version hoping that it will have enough space to last a couple of years.

I just finished editing a 2-month editing project with about 300GB of greenscreen, video of different codecs and a fair amount of compositing. The drive has performed flawlessly.

I wanted to dock it one star because this thing is noisy...disconcertingly so. I was backing everything up every day to other drives in case this one crashed. If I moved the drive slightly, the vibrating noise would go away but come back. After a while, I realized the drive was not going to crash but never got used to all the buzzing and humming.

I gave it 5-stars regardless of the noise because while all the other manufacturers assume all us users buy a new computer system every year, OWC realizes that there are a lot of older systems still out here being used and making money despite ever-tighter profit margins so kudos to them for that!

[ 3.5" HDD ] Needed this drive at the last minute when a drive holding a copy of my first feature crashed. Delivery took 2 days and we were back up and running.

[Aluminum] These drives are reliable enough said!

[22 TB] Very easy to set up, completely quiet. Good quality construction.


Installed an 18 GB spinny drive, plugged it in, and got to work. Love that it comes with a cable, has a power switch, and an internal power supply (no wall wart!). May order another one just to have a spare (because products get discontinued, and I like things to match).


Haven't tried the external USB-C port, but I would daisy-chain a second unit.


Would purchase again.

[36.00 W] So far a great hard drive. An easy plug and play on my Mac. My last drive a Fantom only lasted for two years (with a one year warranty). So I was very happy to see the three year warranty that this came with.