Hard Drive Enclosure RSHTECH USB 3.0 to SATA Aluminum External Hard Drive Dock Case for 3.5 inch HDD SSD up to 16TB Drives, Support UASP (RSH-339)

It's kinda hard to write a through review after only about a month (this is when amazon sends the review email). But I did want to say how clean, smooth fitting and tight the case fits the drive. I'm using a 20T seagate and it runs like a charm and saves space by running on edge rather than flat. The only negative at this point is the power supply has a shorter cable than I needed (had to add an extension).

Works perfectly. Currently using on Linux with no issues. Tried 2 other external cases before I found one that works with my 22TB drive.

My only use for spinning rust drives these days is bulk cold data storage using server-grade (Enterprise) drives. These are very reliable but get HOT. So when choosing an enclosure, heat dissipation is a major shopping criterion. All-metal with fan is the best; a plastic or metal/plastic enclosure with fan is second, metal with thermal coupling between the drive and the shell is next, metal/plastic with no thermal coupling is the worse.This RSHTECH falls somewhere in the last few categories. The shell is solid aluminum but deceivingly the drive is mounted in a grey plastic internal frame which, does not allow direct heat transfer between the drive or the aluminum shell. It LOOKS like metal in the photos owing to the color, but it actually is rather soft ABS plastic. Per my summary above, you can enclosures having more metal/coupling here for about US$10 less (e.g. the gunmetal-colored rounded-edge GODO enclosure).When assembling, I also add a layer of metal (such as aluminum foil) in between the top cover of the drive and the inside surface of the metal shell, it also reduces the chance of rattle. In the case of this enclosure, that works fine with Seagate EXOS-series data center drives.This enclosure comes with a single exterior mounting screw that does mate with the drive frame, and a nice-looking USB C-to-C, C-to-A (adaptor) cable. So far in limited testing HOT Enterprise drive temps get into the mid 40'sC which is well within the acceptable range, USB3x transfer rates are about what you would expect from the drive specs themselves.

Funciona de manera eficiente, la uso en MacBook Pro para fotografía y me permite tener las fotos de Lightroom almacenadas en un seagate barracuda

RSHTech USB 3.0 to SATA, RSH-339(C)We have purchased two of the Amazon Basics (AB) 3.5-inch drive enclosures and now one of these from RSHTech (RSH). The computer system is brand new, homebuilt, Windows 10, using an AMD Ryzen 3950X 16-core CPU and an ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII motherboard w PCIe 4.0. Here is what I like about the RSHTech box attached to that system:1. It is well built. The aluminum enclosure is not cheaply made, as some reviews have stated. It's plenty solid, far more so than the plastic AB box. I haven't done it, but I think I could stand on it.2. One of the AB boxes actually failed during continuous file transfer on two occasions. It happened during backup, at night, when no one was around. Happily, after being powered off in the morning, the box recovered each time. I believe that the box got too hot, even though it was resting flat on a copper plate intended to draw heat away. The AB box is rated for a 40 degree C (104 F) max ambient temp. The RSH box, by contrast, is rated for 55 degrees C (131 F).3. Further, the RSH box runs cooler, perhaps because of its heat-conducting aluminum case. Using the same drive, resting on the same copper plate, and being hammered continuously (read and write) by RoboCopy in the same script, the RSH box tops out at 48 degrees C (115 F), whereas the AB box reached 53 degrees C. Temps are reported by the drive, actually, courtesy of CrystalDiskInfo.exe.4. Note: The maximum allowable ambient temp for both boxes is meant to be the temperature OUTSIDE the box, not the temp of the drive inside the box. In our use, the temp outside the box is "room temp" at the top of a wooden desk, ranging up to maybe 25 C (77 F) on a warm day. The failures did occur on a warm day. The 4TB WD Gold drive is rated for a 60 degree C (140 F) max operating temperature, so it's unlikely that the failures were caused by the drive. They were caused by the enclosure or its power supply.5. There is no significant difference between the boxes in data-transfer speed when copying to and from another rotating disk, according to CrystalDiskMark.exe and according to my more extensive tests with large files. On my system the speed tends to be about 1.7Gb/s when transferring to other WD Gold drives in the computer case. CrystalDiskMark shows about 1.8Gb/s. Everything is USB 3.0 and SATA III, so maximum theoretical would be 6Gb/s.6. There is also no significant difference in data transfer speed when copying to and from an SSD drive. The speed is higher, of course, maybe 2.2Gb/s and it depends a little on the transfer direction. It varies - this is Windows 10 after all.7. Other features of the RSH enclosure: (A) A supplied bracket makes it easy to orient the drive vertically on an edge or down flat on a side; (B) Vents on the back allow for some air circulation, as a drive would get in a desktop PC; (C) The box uses four screws for mounting the drive into a tray and securing the tray in the enclosure. A screwdriver is provided. The result is a very solid device; (D) The manual states that the enclosure supports rotating drives and SSDs up to 16TB in capacity; (E) The manual includes a tutorial for connecting a brand new unformatted drive to a PC or a Mac; (F) It supports the UASP protocol, though I think the AB enclosure does too, because the transfer speeds seem the same.

This enclosure works surprisingly reliably and well. I replaced my old WD portable's Micro USB case with this one, VERY HAPPY

Works well. Fast transfer speeds. Easy setup.

Works as intended. Wish there were rubber washers or something to account for wiggle room with varying hard drive dimensions.