Vantec NexStar JX, USB 3.2 Gen1x1, 3.5" or 2.5” SATA III HDD/SSD Drive Green Enclosure with eSATA (NST-358SU3-BK), Black

I bought a cheaper hard-drive enclosure it wouldn't even spin the hard-drive this one work great and very fast I would have to say a great product.

Really nice quality, metal enclosure/plastic ends and the internals look solid. Came with a nice thick Esata cable and USB 3.0 cable. Only came with a US AC plug, so you'll to purchase an adaptor to suit your country or a AC plug of the same spec. Simple to install, just plug n play with a blue led light whilst in use. I used this to expand my storage on my Reolink NVR system and so far it's working floorlessly.

This enclosure does what it's supposed to do.The transfer speeds are excellent and it doesn't slow down.It may get hot if you do use it for a long time or in a hot climate.Being in Canada,heat is not a real problem here. :) Recommended.

UK BUYER - I needed a esata caddy for an external hard drive for my REOLINK NVR and could not find a decent one in the UK so took a chance on this one from Amazon US -- Works perfect -- i had a feeling the plug might be a problem when i purchased but that was a quick fix, it does come with an American plug but that is an easy £10 fix, a UK 12v 2amp power adaptor works fine (i had an old external Hard drive power plug in a draw - Lucky me)

I put in a 14TB WD Purple drive and am using it as an external eSATA drive for Synology NAS to act as storage for Surveillance Station set up with 6 cameras. I have a couple of fans blowing on it so there is no issue with temperature; the drive reports around 41C. This isn't really part of the review, but might help someone: Surveillance Station does not normally allow for an external drive to be used as storage, but does allow "remote" storage. This is really a terrible oversight on Synology's part and I was very disappointed to learn about this only after purchasing the enclosure. If you search online you will find some workarounds that people did, but I didn't like any of them so I came up with my own. I created a remote storage link that actually points to the local external drive. Now Synology won't let you specify the same IP/hostname as the NAS itself for a remote folder, so you have to create a new DNS entry in your local network environment that simply points to the same device. For example my NAS hostname is simply diskstation, so I added another DNS entry called diskstation_ext that points to the same IP as diskstation. Also, for whatever reason you can only setup a CIFS remote share through "Recording" > "Archive Settings" > "Mount Remote Storage". So what I did after in File Station was to delete the remote folder created by Surveillance Station, and re-create it using the NFS protocol, using the same folder name. You'll want to check the "Mount automatically on startup" option in File Station, and UNCHECK it in Surveillance Station. I don't know if it makes a difference using NFS vs CIFS in this scenario, but NFS is generally considered a more performant protocol. So far, this setup seems stable and persists after reboots without issue.