External Hard Disk Enclosure Question
 

Im thinking of buying this 4 port enclosure for some old drives i have laying around but i have 2 questions.

Will i be able to use this and have it seen as seperate drives?

Will i lose any of the data that is currently on the drives when i set the drives up in the enclosure?

Here is the link to the enclosure....
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/4-ba...and-esata-host

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Based purely on the reviews on that link I'd say it will see them as separate drives. No reason why you should lose data I don't think.
However a few people mention that it runs hot despite its "icy" credentials and that it can be a bit finicky. it's a nice idea though if you have a load of bare drives kicking around.

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Had you bothered to read the Product Overview.

You should not lose any content from the drives.

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Cool, i know what im getting myself soon then woo hoo!

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Just ordered this item so hopefully be here within 5 days.

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If you have ordered it from Scan it will probably be 2 weeks, that what mine and few others delivery times have been due to the current situation.

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I have one of those. You may have to fiddle with the settings, or you may not, can't remember!

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I put in a WD Red 3TB, WD Green 2TB and an older Maxtor 320GB no fiddling and it found them all.

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Its UPnP!

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Best £100 i've spent on computer parts in ages.

No fiddling, just fit the drives, power on and then it works.

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Did you see the bit about 'or you may not, can't remember' ????

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I'm somewhat late to this party but for anyone else who may want something like this in the future I can recommend these

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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Cheers, looks pretty good and takes 2.5 inch laptop drives as well !


Although it's somewhat ambiguous about supporting Linux or not. ?

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Where's the ambiguity?

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But does that only apply to hot swapping?

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The description is comprised of 2 sentences. One describing what it is suitable for, the other what it is not.

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The last picture says supports Linux, therefore that suggests the "Not suitable for Linux" applies only to hot swapping. In that case it should've said something along the lines of ", except under Linux".

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Hadn't looked at the photo's.

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I had a feeling you'd be all over that comment. At the very top it says multiple systems supported, then underneath there are three icons, Windows, Mac and Linux. The Mac icon has a cross in it, which may suggest it doesn't work with mac os however the Windows and Linux icons are just the normal icons So what are the multiple systems ?

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Perhaps the X in the Mac box refers to OSX?

No mention of Linux in the product deascription.

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Orico site

https://www.orico.shop/en/orico-4-ba...ion-usb-3.html

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:tu:



Looks quite useful for someone (like me) with a graveyard of pc's gathering dust in the loft.

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With regards to Linux use the only Linux device I have tried my 4 bay Orico on is a OSMC Vero 4K+, this device is a Kodi based media player with customised Debian OS.
The Vero will see and work with all drives when the Orico is plugged into the device when its on but will go through an endless reboot loop if you try and restart it whilst the Orico is plugged in.
However OSMC is on the old 3.4 Linux Kernal and is in the process of of updating to 4.9 (they have an RC version as of now for people to try), so the newer Kernal may result in better performance.
Sorry I'm not really a Linux user, I can SSH into my Vero's and carry out a few commands but that's the extent of my knowledge so I may be talking BS about the kernals.