Usb Flash Drive Enclosure

[Dual Channel] Update can be done without old CPU with USB flash drive only.

[0.02 lb] We are using a flash drive to store and playback videos on a portable projector. I tried with a USB 3.0 Flash Drive, thinking the newer version was better. But the projector had a different idea. I learned from the professionals at B+H that this unit requires an older USB 2.0 Flash Drive. I never would have thought of that but sure enough, when I used this Verbatim 64G Ergo USB 2.0, the projector recognized the videos and played them flawlessly.

[Bus Powered] Like most other OWC products, this one is built to last - sturdy aluminum, four screws for each drive to hold it in place etc. My computer has a full-power USB 3.1 connector so I don't use the AC adaptor that came with enclosure and it works just fine. This enclosure is on the pricey side but well worth the money. At first, I had a bit of a struggle to get the enclosure recognize my drives. I use it in the mirror mode and I had two drives of the same capacity but different models. If you are going to buy new drives - heed the advise OWC gives in the user manual and buy two *identical* ones, it will make your life easier. After some fumbling and switching the drive slots, it finally recognized them and began rebuilding the RAID, which took me a full day. Once it finished, it is pretty much connect and forget - it just works. Some people complained about the write speeds - I use this as a backup and my drives are spindle ones (not SSD) so depending on whether I copy a lot of small files or a few large ones, I can get sustained write speed anywhere from 1MB/s (worst case, lots of small files) to 6-10 MB/s average or sometimes much better. On the balance, I find it adequate for a USB RAID drive, my other RAIDs performed much worse.

[1] I use this enclosure with a 2015 5K iMac in lieu with a 750GB Crucial SSD, as a boot drive over USB 3. The speed is great, about 2.5x faster than the internal 7200 rpm regular HDD (but that also depends on the SSD type, it's not even the fastest kind). I have also used it for a while with a 2010 27 iMac, also as a boot drive but over FireWire 800 (as that model only has a slower yet USB 2), and the speed gain was fascinating, there was no need to crack open the machine and put the SSD inside (as was originally planned). The product itself is very nicely built and easy to assemble. Somewhat thicker than other similar enclosures I have, but not by much. The included faux leather pouch is quite fancy too!

[600 TB] So far so good. Comfortably and consistently maxes out a 10GBPS USB enclosure. Will update if anything goes wrong in a reasonable timeframe but I’m a few weeks in and the drive gets the job done as an external video game drive.

[1x 2.5" SATA] I ripped an old 1TB hard drive out of an old USB 2.0 enclosure. It was easy to install it into this enclosure. It used small phillips screws. Having a set of small screwdrivers made it a simple installation.

[Bus Powered ] I can attach more than 1 usb flash drive at a time to grab my files

I can attach more than 1 usb flash drive at a time to grab my files

[1x 3.5" ] The SATA drive went into the enclosure smoothly and is working great.

[Black] The enclosure worked great with my three and a half inch Iron Wolf Drive allowing me to initialize my drive externally.