I've been using OWC's Mercury Elite Pro drive enclosures for many years, one per drive. Not one has failed or had any problems at all, and they're as quiet as your drives are. https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
My standard setup has four of them connected to a USB 12 port hub, connected to whatever Mac mini or MacBook I happen to be using, either to a direct USB 3 port or to a TB port using a TB to USB3 adapter. If you want something to reduce cabling, the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual with 3-Port Hub handles two drives with up to 40TB capacity. I could see moving to two of these enclosures to reduce desktop clutter, but have no particular motivation to do so based upon failures and such so far. G > On Jul 18, 2023, at 10:05 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > When I got a trashcan mac I also got an OWC thunderbolt 2 external drive bay > to go with it. Unfortunately, not only is it a bit loud, but when I use it > as thunderbolt rather than USB it has a tendency to disconnect from my mac, > so that I'm constantly getting warnings about missing drives etc. > > Rather than investing in another external T-bolt bay, I want to get a USB-C > external drive bay, and just use a T-bolt to USB-C adapter. USB-C cables are > a lot less expensive, and I'll be able to use it with newer machines. > > I don't need RAID. At the moment my backup strategy uses multiple copies of > JBOD drives. I don't mind it being something that would allow me to switch > to RAID later, or I'll just invest in a newer NAS when it's time to retire my > older Synology. > > My main archive is large enough that I don't want to hang multiple external > drives off my computer. > > I need at least two drive bays, three or more would be better. > > Does anyone have experience with a good, quiet, preferably inexpensive, USB-C > external drive enclosure? > > > -- > Larry Colen > l...@red4est.com sent from ret13est > > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
