Vantec Nexstar GX USB 3.0 Dual 2.5" SATA SSD/HDD RAID Enclosure, Black (NST-272S3-BK)

The enclosure is very nice. I have 3 of them already but bought locally. They ran out so I purchased online. I found 2 issues with this enclosure. 1) When inserting or removing the HD, the HD has to be on a 30 degree angle to the sata ports in the case. I don't think Vantec thought this through very well. 2) Sometimes my computers (I tried a desktop and a laptop) stops copying files to or from the HD in the enclosure. Then my computers stop reading the drive. I suspect that there is not enough power going to the enclosure for the speeds that the enclosure is trying to transfer at. I used a micro USB cable instead (the same cables you use for your Android phone) which are USB 2.0. So, the transfer is slower but I haven't had an issue. I did try using Y cables but the same thing happened but not enough power is still my assumption. Having said this, I rarely swap out my drives and I'm in no rush to transfer files. So, they are not such a big deal to me. I would buy these again.

Working fine.

The set up was very quick and simple. This enclosure feels secure enough but it's not a tool I'd want to take on the road. It works well, was easy to set up and was very I expensive. For my home office this is an awesome way to reuse an old hard drive.

Housing a Crucial MX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 6 Gbps 2.5" SSD with stated 560 MB/s read and 510 MB/s write; using the NexStar GX (NST-271C31-BK) enclosure the disk speed test (5 GB file) achieved 527 MB/s read and 475 MB/s write. The USB 3.0 enclosure that I was using prior to the NST-271C31-BK achieved around 400 MB/s max. for read and write. Very happy with it ;)

Muy buen enclosure, había estado buscando un enclosure 3.0 que funcionará bien y al fin éste lo hizo, fue el tercero, primero un Anker que dejó de funcionar a la semana, luego un Sabrent que funcionaba bien, pero sólo en puertos 2.0, en puerto 3.0 simplemente no escribía nada, solo funcionaba en modo lectura, el diseño es bastante atractivo, el disco se fija bastante bien al enclosure para evitar moviento, viene con la tornillería necesaria, solo se echó en falta un destornillador para fijar los tornillos. La velocidad de lectura/escritura es bastante buena, claro, esto también depende del disco duro que se utilice. 100% recomendable.