so far so good. formatted the drive and its working fine. but I know when its spinning up from across the room. Not so much the drive but the low frequency vibration into the desk its sitting on. otherwise works as advertised.

I bought this to replace a Seagate Backup disk which has run out of space. Shockingly, the OWC drive is *incredibly* noisy by comparison. I worried there was something wrong with it, but their support said (after listening to an audio recording) the noise is normal. Dont believe the virtually silent marketing claims! Otherwise, it is slow to spin up after sleeping, but once its active the speed is ok. Overall it does the job but a bit disappointing.

Windows 11 recognizes this device as it is. We have two of these hdd enclosures with no problems using 4tb hard drives in them. They run cool also.

I use this drive enclosure with a drive that is connected to a NAS via USB. I had an enclosure which I had been using for some time, but the fan in the old enclosure stated to fail, so I replaced the enclosure. I was a bit concerned about the drive getting hot, but the enclosure seems to do a great job of dissipating heat and with no fan it is silent. This enclosure is not the least or most expensive one available, but I would rate it a solid value. I would have to connect the drive directly to a computer to test the access speed and I dont use it that way so I have not, but my observations with accessing the drive via the NAS is that it is significantly better than the previous enclosure, but that is not a very objective standard. If you want an enclosure for a 3.5 inch HDD, this one would be a very good choice.

My drive has been inside my Mac Pro for three years without a single issue. I wanted to make it an external drive. Began a large transfer of 1.5 TB. The transfer took nearly a day over USB 3 and failed near the end. My data was gone and MacOS was no longer able to read the disk. I know that MacOS has historically been a destroyer of hard drives. From 10.3 Panther onward, MacOS has destroyed over 14 hard drives of mine. So I cant tell if this is a Unix thing or an OWC thing. Sonnet Allegro USB 3 PCIe card Seagate Iron Wolf 8TB 7200 RPM drive This enclosure MacOS Mojave 10.14

14 TB drive working with MacBook Pro. Drive boots quickly, read/write speed is fast. It makes a bit of noise but speed and reliability make this one a winner. Easy to install on Mac I need storage. I have huge Adobe Lightroom photo files (I use a DLSR with a 45MP chip so it generates a lot of data!) and although I know I am old fashioned, I have huge music files as well. So I keep a drive hanging off the Macbook to play music and work on pictures as well as to back up the work I do on the Mac. For some years I used a Western Digital 8 TB drive but as that began to runn out of room, I bought a 10TB drive from WD. What a disaster! I loaded up about 7TB worth of data, at which point the drive needed 10-20 minutes to boot and whenever I stopped actively using it, would shut down requiring a reboot. WD replaced it. In fact they replaced it twice and all three drives had the same flaw. Once the drive had more than 5TB of data on the drive it became unstable. Next I tried a Seagate 10 TB as an alternative, although I have some bad old history with Seagate reliability. Their 10TB was so noisy it was really degraded the value of music on the laptop and also showed an intermittent inability to boot, unless I fiddle multiple times with the connector attached to the drive So, I looked around for something else and I found the Mercury Elite Pro. Unlike its more highly publicized brethren, handles a 7.5TB load easily, and with another 6TB of headroom I hope to use it for several years. (I assume external drives like these have 2-3 years reliable life.) By the way, I am still using the old WD 8TB drives to back up the Mercury. But the 10TB drives from WD and Seagate were sore disappointments – a good deal of money spent on hardware that simply does not perform adequately

This drive enclosure has worked well so far. I am using it as a Mac OS G5 Time Machine. I easily installed a Seagate BarraCuda 8TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA. It runs quietly and reliably.

I like that this works like my Apple AirPort Extreme Time Capsule with the Time Machine software . It was very easy to set up and install. I now feel secure in knowing my data is backed up daily without fail. For those of us with less Computer skills (Moderate) it was great to find something easy to work with. Also looks good visually with my iMac.

Very easy to install the drive. Well made, feels solid. Metal enclosure dissipates heat better than plastic. I really appreciate the high speed USB. Will be purchasing again as well as recommending to others.

I have several of these hard drives. One of my old are fire why’re 402 GB drives started having intermittent problems so I replaced it with this. That one was at least 12 years old. These last much longer than the brown plastic ones from another company. I recommend these drives. Nevertheless be sure to pack up your important data