Oyen Digital Novus 20TB External USB-C 7200RPM Hard Drive, (3N1-C-20T-BL)

I bought this enclosure to use Sata drives as an external backup. The enclosure is sturdy and heavy duty. The outer shell is aluminum and the inner drive tray is plastic. I mounted a WD red pro inside with ease and had zero problems getting it up and running. The drive is secure inside and doesn’t move around at all. This enclosure has been running problem free for me like every other Oyen digital product in use at my business. That includes HDX drives, Helix drives, and Mobius 2c raid enclosures.

Speed as specified, 260-270 read and write. Easy set up with Mac. Surprisingly quiet. Consolidated couple old and smaller drives onto this one. Easy job.

The enclosure works well for what it is, but it powers down and goes to sleep when left alone, but does not wake back up with the computer. I have to power cycle the enclosure to reconnect the hard drive. It is very annoying as I was looking for something that I could leave and forget.

Works well, although I haven't run any benchmarks on it. It'l seems pretty fast with mechanical HDDs. Easy to assemble, seems well-built and hasn't had any disconnects. I do wish it had a fan, but I've just been aiming a small AC Infinity fan at it.

I've used a variety of external drive enclosures over the years, mostly just for USB drives attached to a computer. I bought the Novus because the drive I installed in it will have to go on the road with me from time to time and I wanted the protection afforded by the silicon "sleeve". It's electronics and a drive so I will treat it accordingly. The protection is for the occasional bump it may get.First, it arrived precisely as predicted, well done Amazon.Packaging was easy to open and everything was individually wrapped. There are actually PRINTED instructions included, although they're hardly necessary. This is a very simple, but well designed enclosure. And everything fits like a well engineered and constructed product. As nearly as I can tell it is manufactured in the USA using materials from the USA. But I could not find that specifically stated even on their web site.My 8TB (purchased separately) 3.5" drive slid right in - at a slight angle to enable aligning and mating the SATA connector in the case. This was very easy. Everything fit, aligned and went together perfectly. There was a small zip lock bag containing 12 screws - 8 for mounting the drive - only 4 required. Two different types provided. And there were four black screws to secure the "sled" inside the case. It is also very nice they included a small MAGNETIZED screwdriver. This is good because they ensure users have the right SIZE and tip screwdriver and also because the tiny screws are...tiny. MUCH easier to install using the magnetized screwdriver than trying to start them by hand.I may not get out enough but I haven't seen a lot of thunderbolt connectors, although I would like to. And I don't have any. So it is great that they also provided a USB-c - to - USB-A cable for connection to my system.The one 'ding' I'll give them is the freakin' wall wart! I would very much have preferred a slightly larger enclosure with the wall wart electronics inside the case and a normal AC power cord. I thought about taking off a star in the rating for that but they're not the only ones guilty of using them! So suffice to say, it's an area that NEEDS improvement.Overall, an excellent and very well designed and manufactured product. I would buy another if I needed another external enclosure and highly recommend them to anyone who may need one.

Drive enclosure works amazing and the USB-C interface makes connecting it to different devices easy. The rubber protection dampens drive noise and protects the drive.

I got a new X300 Toshiba 8GB hard drive. Put it in an Orico tool-free all-plastic case, and realized it was unreasonably noisy. It really rattled around inside that plastic. But it is for a raspberry Pi NAS that I'll stick in a closet or somewhere, so I don't have to hear it. Also I didn't feel particularly safe about this hard drive not crashing at some point in the simple plastic Orico case, which serves a purpose but has no real drop protection at all, not even rubber retainers inside. I ordered this Novus thing, which is the only rubberized 3.5 enclosure I could find. Anywhere. I'm really impressed with how it cuts down on the noise, which is a bonus I wasn't shooting for when I ordered the enclosure. I guess the fact it is anchored in with screws to a metal case which is enclosed in a thick silicone rubber shell is why the noise-causing vibrations are muffled. I also like that it has USB-C to USB-C for newer hardware and another USB cable for other setups like my raspberry pi. Peak transfer rates using a high quality USB-C cable to a Macbook were great. (See lower right quadrant of the Black Magic Disk Speed test). I shall order another one of these fine rubber monstrosities.

Was rebuilding a raid 5 deck of drives after failure of 1 of the 4 drives. Moved all files to this drive which handled it fine and reloaded the raid stack with zero issues. Nice to have a reliable backup for 16TB of photographic images.

First off, the product seems robust and well equipped with cables and instructions. It seems to work well.However, it's made for the US market and ships only with an American two-pin adaptor. I can't find anything in the sales blurb that states this and Amazon does not seem to want me to contact the seller directly.I just don't understand why Amazon.sg sells products that weren't designed for the Singaporean market. I now have to go to a third party to enquire about replacement adaptors.Moreover, most adaptors nowadays come with a range of international fittings. Who still ships single market adaptors? 95% of us don't live in the US. Definitely time to broaden a few horizons.

I have tried everything to have it appear on Disk Utility or Finder, but it does not appear.My system : Mac Book Pro with Big Sur