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  • jabber - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    Timely! Been looking at getting one of these for a simple but speedy data dump.
  • Gothmoth - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    i have it for a few month now and it´s great fro teh price.

    thought there is one issue.
    they go to sleep to fast (after ~10 minutes).
    there is a FW update now that they never go to sleep.. not perfect either.

    but mine is only on when i backup to the two 6GB drives i put in... so no problem for me.
  • damianrobertjones - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    Typing on a phone can be tough.
  • Gothmoth - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    well i speak 5 languages more or less, du vollidiot. how many did you learn in your public school....?
  • wrkingclass_hero - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    1/2, we were busy learning about how we kicked Germany's ass twice.
  • stanleyipkiss - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    i suspect that was mostly thanks to the russians.
  • jabber - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    Yeah I hear quite a few other countries were involved but as usual some were later to the party than others...
  • Samus - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    Wow. This certainly took a left turn.
  • HomeworldFound - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    Don't forget the wall... the wall helped too.
  • Hurr Durr - Saturday, July 8, 2017 - link

    Your inability to embrace your own security will end you one glorious day.
  • Zak - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    Facepalm...
  • Hurr Durr - Saturday, July 8, 2017 - link

    That more or less part is very relevant.
  • jabber - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    I tend to use CrystalDisk to adjust the over zealous power saving on HDDs I use. Back in the day when WD Greens were the drive to use in NAS (before Reds appeared) I used to adjust the power settings to halfway between max saving and minimum to reduce issues.
  • coolhardware - Saturday, July 8, 2017 - link

    Sounds like a pretty cool unit, glad to hear from an actual user. Nice to know they actually updated the firmware too!
  • Bullwinkle J Moose - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    "The device doesn't need to be power cycled when the RAID configuration is changed by the user. Instead, the 'Reset' button needs to be pressed for 5 seconds in order to create a new RAID volume with the selected configuration."
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    I can wipe all your data with a push of a button?
    Cool

    What happens to your data when the power brick gets flaky?

    What happens to your data when the power jack gets flaky?

    Intermittent brownout?

    Internal power supply with power loss protection might be a better option
    or

    Or, if you must live dangerously with "YOUR" data, maybe stick with 2.5" drives without the external power supply?

    Thunderbolt, ever heard of it?

    Fake News Troll says......
    I cannot recommend this product!
  • ganeshts - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    The reset button is recessed and needs a pin to keep it pressed. I am pretty sure no one will trigger it accidentally.

    All the other aspects you have highlighted are risks with other similar products also.
  • JamesUK - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    Looks great until your grandma shows up and stuffs the 'toastmaster' with bread!
  • Samus - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    Sucks there's no option of USB-C bus power, perhaps when using 2.5" drives like 4TB laptop HDD's or SSD's. There is a market (for me at least) to have dual 2.5" enclosures running on bus power.
  • Samus - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    Like the CRU Duo...
  • ganeshts - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    We reviewed that last year : http://www.anandtech.com/show/10844/cru-toughtech-... : Bus power for two 2.5" drives is extremely flaky, and is not compatible with all Type-C ports.
  • SilthDraeth - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    So, they copy the Cooler Master logo... close enough anyway, and as far as I know, they are not affiliated or part of Cooler Master... Isn't this something that the company could be sued for...

    Or did Cooler Master steal the design?
  • menthol1979 - Thursday, July 6, 2017 - link

    $159 for this piece of crap? With a few bucks more you can get an outstanding Synology DS216j, way better than this garbage can in a thousand ways.
  • ganeshts - Thursday, July 6, 2017 - link

    You are comparing apples and oranges. Show me the case where the DS216j can sustain 600 MBps to your PC. This is a DAS, while the 216j is a NAS.
  • jabber - Thursday, July 6, 2017 - link

    Indeed, sometimes you just want a place where you can dump and use a large amount of data fast. A Synology or any NAS isn't going to do that.
  • menthol1979 - Thursday, July 6, 2017 - link

    True, considering the 600 MBps as SSD RAID0 sequential file transfer only, which is hardly a common use scenario. For most other uses, as you have marvelously illustrated indeed, its performance hardly exceeds the 100MB/s DS214j's speed. This is why I believe that these two products can, in many was, compare. And an entry-level NAS can win.
  • UpSpin - Thursday, July 6, 2017 - link

    Only if you transfer one large file. It's quite different if you copy many small files (which is the usual scenario). Your NAS won't be able to keep the high transfer rate and drop to a fraction of the possible gigabit LAN speed. It's getting worse if you use an encryption. On the other hand, the DAS is only restricted by the CPU of the much more powerful PC.
  • jabber - Thursday, July 6, 2017 - link

    Yeah I never use my NAS boxes for big data transers of varied small files. Life is too short. As direct to storage as possible.
  • jmke - Friday, July 7, 2017 - link

    exactly!
    https://www.amazon.com/Synology-DS216J-NAS-DiskSta...

    if you're going to spend money a scratch disk; there are cheaper alternatives with a lot more disks;
  • dave_the_nerd - Monday, July 17, 2017 - link

    So, you don't know the difference between DAS and NAS, and why they are both better solutions for different types of needs?
  • Lolimaster - Monday, July 10, 2017 - link

    I just want a box like this without any additional raid sh*t, just a simple HDD/SSD aluminium enclosure + USB 3.0-3.1g2 adapter and the power brick/optional to run on usb 3.1 alone.

    Nothing extra, just that.
  • dave_the_nerd - Monday, July 17, 2017 - link

    So there's a button on the back of this enclosure which, if you press it for five seconds, will reformat the hard drives as a new RAID volume? Why does that sound like a terrible idea?
  • dave_the_nerd - Monday, July 17, 2017 - link

    Benchmarks of the same drives on motherboard ports would be useful as a baseline, IMO.

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