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MAIWO 4-Bay USB3.0 External 2.5/3.5" SATA Docking Station US$44.34 / A$70.41 Delivered @ Orico HDD Case store via AliExpress

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4 port SATA docking station, good for turning anything without internal 2.5/3.5" bays into a NAS like device, or for hiding noisy server drives somewhere more soundproof to shut them up.

20tb listed max capacity for drives, 7a 12v 84w power supply. This does not function as a cloning station.

I've had this model now for a couple of months, this is the first one of these I've used that has been rock solid, no weird issues putting drives to sleep and being unable to wake them up or disconnecting itself from USB at random, drives stay up and visible without hassles, and can do simultaneous read/writes to multiple drives in and out of the dock at ~350MB/s with all ports in use, or ~420MB/s on diskmark benches for the old SATA SSDs I've thrown in it to test.

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  • Nom on 21/06/2025 - 14:34
    +5

    If you're looking for an actual enclosure, MAIWO are good at these too - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007320755776.html

    • Damonator84 on 21/06/2025 - 15:08
      -3

      That's two Bay, op is 4bay

    • Damonator84 on 22/06/2025 - 09:41

      How does this fit in that Enclosure?

      • Nom on 22/06/2025 - 20:45

        It doesn't.

        That enclosure is to hold two hard drives - it's not an enclosure for an enclosure.

        • MomentOfTruss on 23/06/2025 - 14:44

          Love to be that guy, but it's a docking station not an enclosure.

  • elusive on 21/06/2025 - 14:40

    Any chance you could grab the SATA chipset? I'm curious to see what the internal layout might be, if it isn't one of the port mirror ones that'd be great.

    • stimutacs on 21/06/2025 - 14:47

      HWInfo says JMicron JMS567 Sata 6gb/s bridge over genesys logic.

  • elusive on 21/06/2025 - 14:57

    Thanks. Sadly that one looks to be a single port bridge so there's probably an expander behind it.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/jcloqv/which_a…

    • stimutacs on 21/06/2025 - 15:07

      Yeah I don't know what to make of that, trim/retrim appears to work in win11 on an SSD used in the enclosure and the speeds suggest it's working as a UAS device.

    • Nom on 22/06/2025 - 20:50
      +2

      What's your use case ?

      If you just want to plug in some hard drives and use them, then the expander setup works just fine.

      If you want to use it with some sort of NAS/ZFS setup then buy a TerraMaster D6-320 https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/hard-drives-&-ssds/enclo…

      • elusive on 22/06/2025 - 23:29

        I need to replace a couple dodgy docks I'm currently using as makeshift hotswap bays to back up an internal array (w/ ZFS).

        TerraMaster D6-320

        That one's internal layout does look a lot better. I actually wasn't aware that TerraMaster did DASes/docks, thought it was all NAS.

        Inside are two daisy-chained Realtek RTS5420 4-port USB 3.x Gen2 Hubs with six Asmedia ASM1053E USB to SATA bridges, one for each slot.

        Downside of course is the price - $500 is a bit beyond the 'easy buy' range. Still, thanks for that suggestion, I'll keep an eye out for any deals on it.

        • Nom on 23/06/2025 - 11:08
          +1

          Downside of course is the price - $500 is a bit beyond the 'easy buy' range. Still, thanks for that suggestion, I'll keep an eye out for any deals on it.

          I've never seen a "real" DAS like the TerraMaster, at an 'easy buy' price - as you alluded to above, the cheap units always take shortcuts. If you want properly individually-visible drives then unfortunately you have to pay $$$ for it.

          • elusive on 23/06/2025 - 11:37

            @Nom:

            I've never seen a "real" DAS like the TerraMaster, at an 'easy buy' price - as you alluded to above, the cheap units always take shortcuts.

            The silly thing is, in theory the hardware isn't that complex/expensive. Both USB hubs (forgetting 10Gbps for a sec and accepting 5Gbps) and USB-SATA bridges are commodity chips, and the whole lot can had at retail for AU$40. Add a case and 12V supply, and integrate the lot into a single board, and that'd still cost well under $100 at scale. $300, maybe $400, is where I would have expected the retail price for the lot.

            The bigger problem is there are $300+ enclosures that are superficially similar e.g. https://www.amazon.com.au/ORICO-External-Enclosure-Aluminum-…. But it's damn near impossible to tell what they do internally unless you run into an owner willing to check, since no one seems willing to actually put it on the spec sheet.

            Actually I take that back, StarTech does specify. So https://www.startech.com/en-au/hdd/sdock4u313 is the other option.

  • 10-80 on 21/06/2025 - 18:26

    I've been using a couple of these for a few years and am happy with them.

  • sydney rider on 21/06/2025 - 21:47

    is it RAID 0 or 1 or 4 discs as individual?

    • stimutacs on 21/06/2025 - 22:14
      +1

      Individual, no raid on the hardware itself.

      • sydney rider on 21/06/2025 - 23:27

        yes, make sense for the price.

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