ORICO USB 3.0 5 Bay 3.5-Inch External Hard Drive Enclosure With RAID Review - ORICO 9558U3

[@Null42x86]

This is perfect, because i'm kinda of a compulsive hoarder but instead of having trash all over the house i have trash inside of a computer hard disk

[@jamegumb7298]

Learn to use DaVinci and cut down on what you have, plus record using Handbrake. But use cpu not gpu encoding. Save 30% more space overall.

[@lancheloth]

Can relate to the hoarding... I tend to hoard files... It's not healthy..

[@HyperPlays1]

You can plug it right into the router then you can access on the network. The USB on the router can be used for storage devices.

[@Tyokok]

Hey great idea! have you really tried that? is it exactly the same? usb directly reads data, but Bay's direct IO is it's system, could be different? or no?

[@FireAngelOfLondon]

Just be sure to check which USB standard your router is using. Some older routers use USB 2.0 so the read and write speeds would be dreadful. If your router has USB 3.0 ports that's a great idea though, so thanks for posting that comment as I am sure I would never have thought of it otherwise.

[@striktly522]

Nice vid bro

[@TonyTechBytes]

Thanks!

[@expresso9123]

Ayyy may fav youtuber uploaded again! Keep up the great work!

[@TonyTechBytes]

Expresso Thank you so much!

[@AtmelMk51]

Can this DAS turn on automatically when power is applied? I saw a toggle switch on the back. I want to connect it to mine NAS server to expand the memory, but I don't want to manually enable it.

[@theomarshall3615]

love the content looking foward to even more videos from you love you man hope your days going well

[@TonyTechBytes]

Thank you so much Theo!

[@terrygriffin5201]

Good review....Does the drive support different raid modes on the other drives at the same time. Example, 2 drives Raid 1 , while another 2 is also Raid 2 ?

[@waynegenius566]

Can TrueNAS install on it?

[@Mikkel..]

HI luv ur vids keep up the good work

[@TonyTechBytes]

Thank you!

[@ronaldprovencher7570]

How does it handle Video streaming ? Does all the hard drive have to be the same size ?

[@GlobalAviator1]

Is it Noisy. What DB levels are heard when near your work desk. 2nd how is the cooling. Do the temps get hot when working number of disks at same time. 3rd Can each HDD be turned ON and OFF or do all drives come on and spin all the time regardless if anything is being read or written to them. Last question - When the PC is shut down, do the 6 Hard drives stay on or does the switch at back of the unit needs to turned off to avoid the disks from spinning all night.

[@Aisaaax]

Does it turn off when your PC goes to sleep, like a normal external HDD?

[@dehua-2730]

I have the 5 Bay of this enclosure and I was wondering if I can somehow put 2.5 hard drive into this enclosure. I'm hesitant to shuck my portable drive for now unless somebody has placed a 2.5 hard drive into this box successfully. Does it work with 2.5?

[@juliosof]

Is there a difference between Orico and a regular dock station with 4 or 5 bay? Thanks.

[@thorable530]

dock station is not hardware raid

[@Trollioli]

I'm having trouble adding a hard drive to the final slot. I have 3 hard drives already in it and I want to and a final 8TB hard drive to the last slot. Its coming up in the software as unreleased and I cant seem to get it to add to the over all hard drive space. I can click create raid on the new hard drive but im worried it will try and either A. create a new raid 5 and erase all of my existing data or B. just create a second single raid? Not sure what to do.

[@RichardClark-pd6mg]

Any updates on how the Orico held up for you over the years? Is it a good buy?

[@George-mk7lp]

up

[@nickcdrw]

Tony, did you raid using the Orico HW RAID manager on mac? if so, why can't i run the apps on my mac? it keep asking to update and report to developer. i donwload from ORICO and i have intel imac 5k with monterey. please help me thanks.

[@Khalid-Otibi-1970]

Useful review Thanks brother.

[@KGNYC112]

You just convinced me to getting one of these. Even better, they are now on sale on eBay. Thanks for the video, great content!

[@morganfreeman8208]

How is it?

[@George-mk7lp]

how is it?

[@Robert-ug5hx]

I cwnt decide betwern this orico or the qnap tr-004

[@jpwyang]

Bro love your videos

[@chrisngein]

is there a way to shut down Orico in PC without using the switch?

[@astmsia1211]

noob q...can i connect this enclosure with 5 hdds to my router's usb and then share all those hdds across my home network? will there be any bottleneck in the read and write speeds if i do that?

[@josephsparacio9641]

Can you use this to download steam video games?

[@Jaxvcu]

No dislikes! As there should be.

[@TonyTechBytes]

Jaxcido Haha, thanks!

[@ignacioalvarado1828]

Now there's one

[@tylerpang]

@@ignacioalvarado1828 now there's three

[@Shadow-iw8qr]

Now there’s 4

[@ljl9552]

Now they don't exist

[@AlphaShh]

When I get My personal Build I’m Definitely checking in that

[@TonyTechBytes]

AlphaShh If you can fit internal hard drives in your build, I’d suggest doing that instead.

[@AlphaShh]

TonyTechBytes Ok I’ll

[@GanymedeXD]

For a new build simply buy good sized internal drives. No need for an enclosure! I bought one to recycle 5 external drives … getting the HDD out if them and clean and tidy in one enclosure. And as my Lian Li case got too full with water cooling and the FE RTX 3090 Ti as well as plenty of fans.

[@doth_production1727]

So how much space you have left after two months?

[@paoo4915]

Your videos are way to clean and and performed spontaneously I really love your channel haha

[@zachyun8961]

Keep it up I did your how to build a pc in 2020 build but with a different case and a 2060 instead. I love your content on tik tok and KZbin. Keep up the clean editing and good commentary on your videos.

[@lauraro8600]

Does it support hot plug? Is it neccesary to format it before? I have things i do not want to loose, thanks

[@combat_sportsbuff2637]

I was thinking about getting one is this thing still working good

[@Peshyy]

the title says 9558U3, but your unit is actually the 9558RU3 - notice the additional R, it stands for RAID. the normal 9558U3 unit is basically the same, but without RAID support. around $10-$20 difference depending on where you buy it from. anyways nice video, I'm actually thinking of buying one for myself.

[@kamilwardak6380]

Hello, I have a request for you if you could show me what to do in turn when replacing the disk with a new one with RAID And how to copy the data that is functional to a new disk so that again two disks are in RAID And after replacing it with a new disk, the device sees a new separate disk and the device squeaks, will you help?

[@joellemorris5684]

Thanks Tony, if I only use the bay as a backup + archive of backup (meaning it will not be powered on old day) with RAID 1 or RAID 5 mode, can we put HDD that are not for NAS? if yes, what are the benefit to use HDD for NAS?

[@brodyvillano637]

Is the asus b550 f a good motherboard

[@kencox6166]

Hi nice review, is there a way to just pop drives in that already have content on them without them being formatted as I already have 4TB of photos, weddings ect that I will not be able to transfer off. what I would like to do is add the drive add a spare then manually clone over using external software.

[@iam_riro]

Is it still alive after a year, Sir?

[@eddthirty4065]

Any of you guys had any problems with yours? I just bought one, spent 3 hours testing it. Bay 1 gives read errors, so not cool. I'm just trying to decide whether to give it another chance and buy another.

[@weeperscreepers7812]

Do you know what parts would be good for a really good 1.1k pc are

[@1021xe]

For me, the primary purpose for using an external hard drive enclosure or a docking station like the ORICO 9558U3 is to access data from old 3.5" SATA HDDs from my old computers. If I don't need to backup data or write new data, do I really need RAID manager? Will it be better to get an external HDD enclosure/dock without RAID?

[@cvdavis]

It’d be cheaper.

[@TheWorstGamerr]

Yottamaster 5 Bay External Hard Drive Enclosure or Mediasonic PROBOX 4 Bay 3.5” SATA Hard Drive Enclosure

[@WR3ND]

I have a 4TB SSD and 16TB HDD in my main PC. I'm looking at this to potentially do a RAID 5 with 5 16TB drives for a total of 64TB. How is this enclosure and RAID controller holding up for you?

[@pikadroo]

So if I just call up Orico and tell them I want one they just will send me one for free too? Wow that's amazing!

[@junkaifoong8918]

im wondering. if its on raid, what happens when the enclosure dies? just curious

[@GanymedeXD]

Never tried it, but when considering RAID the feedback was far from positive. If the enclosure dies the files are also corrupted. Several colleagues tried expensive data recovery. Despite hundreds of £ they did not get any or no usable dats back. Sounds like … if the enclosure dies the RAID data are lost.

[@danielgao23]

Amazing video tony. I feel like the exposure is a bit too high but I'm sure there is a reason for that. Also, one thing for reviews, I think that you should compare a product with others that are similar. Overall, I really like how you explained everything.

[@TonyTechBytes]

whelephant Thank you! Yeah I need to work on exposing my shots properly, haha. I would compare it with similar products, but I don’t have any similar options on hand and I’d rather not compare specs - I prefer to use something before talking about it.

[@danielgao23]

@@TonyTechBytes Yep I agree. Keep it up!

[@WorkLawyer]

What do you think of an external gpu

[@WR3ND]

On many higher end consumer routers these days you can attach USB storage to them and use the router itself as a NAS server.

[@GanymedeXD]

Even the free basic ones you get with your contract have USB storage link.

[@WR3ND]

We don't have free ones here. The basic ones cost like 10 USD a month through the provider. Naturally, I've never personally used them, but it's good to know that some people have more features with theirs. Cheers.

[@austincarrera_]

I have a question about your last PC build does the Ryzen 5 3600 work with the Asus ROG Strix b450-f gaming motherboard out of the box or do you have to update it with a older CPU? (I want to use this motherboard with my Ryzen 5 3600 but it says it won’t work on pcpartpicker)

[@joewilleford6113]

Strastic I did a build with those 2 parts on my channel and the b450-f came updated with the current bios

[@TonyTechBytes]

Strastic The B450f should be updated out of the box for Ryzen 3000 if you buy new

[@austincarrera_]

TonyTechBytes Ok thank you!

[@LearnLog]

How is the noise of the fan, does it disrupt your working?

[@GanymedeXD]

Its just a relatively small enclosure … nice fan sound. Do not get what the fan noise obsession is about. Pleasant white noise background. My self build multimedia PC has 16 case fans and 4 hard disk fans build in and even this number of fans does not disrupt anything.

[@nicoxjan]

Hi, Tony. Thanks for the informative review. I did purchase one of these but I was curious: Does it have to be attached to the computer the RAID managing software is installed on? Or can it be unplugged and plugged into another system after the RAID manager has completed setting up the drive? Thanks again for the video and keep it up, Tony!

[@r0galik]

The RAID controller is in the enclosure so yes, it can be plugged and unplugged willy nilly.

[@lzcats7431]

​@@r0galik then what is the point of the software?

[@r0galik]

@@lzcats7431 you use it to control the hardware RAID

[@mauricehinton5889]

I'm considering purchasing an Orico Enclosure from Amazon. However a lot of the reviews people left have to do with their hard drives falling asleep after being idle for a short period of time, making it impossible to access documents and folders on without rebooting the entire enclosure. Is this true and is there a work around for this issue?

[@piepie61218]

Did you ever find a solution to this? I was also wondering the same thing. Or did you find a product that you chose and would recommend?

[@mauricehinton5889]

@@piepie61218 I ordered the Orico Enclosure but I returned it since I didn't like the reviews. I ultimately decided to go with the Mediasonic ProBox HF2-SU3S2 4-Bay Enclosure. It's cheaper than the Orico, but it serves my purpose. It was pretty simple to set up, it's super quiet(IMO), and 4 months in, I have no complaints. I have 2-10TB 3.5 HD's currently and in few more months, I plan on getting 2 more 10TB HD's. I would recommend going with the MediaSonic ProBox if it suites your needs, but remember, if you turn off your PC, you'll have to manually turn your enclosure back on, when you turn your PC back on, otherwise your drives won't show up.

[@mauricehinton5889]

@@piepie61218 BTW, it's small and has this cheaply made plastic feel. So if you are looking for something larger and and a bit more sturdy, you might want to consider something else. I was just looking for an enclosure to hold additional storage drives so it works for me. FYI

[@junaidsiddiquemusic]

I bought one today, it is working fine but I can see that the fan is not spinning. Is it normal? Or it kicks in automatically when HDDs get warm?

[@George-mk7lp]

is it still working? can you share feedback

[@MosesBamgbose]

I have the same product but using the software for raid connection is not working. Keep showing me no disk when I open the software. Any solution to that issue please?

[@chromerims]

Here is a wild guess: S/w Raid (Orico's or Windows Raid or zfs) will not allow it with this unit because even when switched to 'Clear-Raid,' this unit's h/w raid card is presenting all the disks together as a single virtual volume. So sundry softwares sense there's little to nothing left. I.e. it thinks, "Only one volume or drive, my Precious? Thens nothings fors us's to dos." Kindest regards, neighbor.

[@loucipher7782]

the key is to lock your HDD from flying out lmfao

[@arqjoseroberto7599]

Work in Xbox S/X o play 5?

[@crossyboi8766]

When I go on your custom built pc website nothing shows up is your website down

[@TonyTechBytes]

Crossyboi 876 Banner at the top and FAQs page for more info. Thanks for watching!

[@ary2000]

If you don't setup RAID do the drives show up as individual drives? Can you format them to any file system you want? I'm asking cause I'm thinking of using one of these to attach to my file storage server. Much appreciated, thanks :)

[@eddthirty4065]

Yes, use JOBD, all 5 drives show up individually and it allows the SMART data to be read too. However, the one I bought recently was faulty. Bay 1 always gave read errors. I may have a poor example of one, the next may be ok, who knows?

[@fvgoya]

Thanks for this review. I'm thinking to buy this ORICO. Can you tell if it is possible to use: 2 disks as raid (clone) and 3 disks as stand alone drive?

[@dorothyshares]

I read somewhere that as soon as this is used, it caused all the hard drives to malfunction and all data got lost. What are the chances this could happen? I'm planning to buy one and will plug this to my dell xps 15.

[@smaronboruah]

DId u end up getting it? Would love an update

[@MrMarcodaniellopez]

Is the USB 3.0 enough speed for running PLEX 4K Movies RAW, no compression 50-80MB/s?

[@thorable530]

of course, and in raid mode the reads are even faster.

[@mariodelzo]

Hi Tony. Good video. Do you know if I can connect this Orico by USB to a Bluray Player to watch movies?

[@fussanchez2716]

You should look into Plex for this, but you’d have to connect it to a computer that’s always online

[@Colonel_Newie]

Great video mate, do you know if there is a JBOD setting?

[@thorable530]

there always is.

[@joselito7776]

Is it mac compatible?

[@shwillard]

Has anyone had success expanding the RAID with a bigger HDD using the Orico software? If not, do you have any recommendations?

[@voodoomotion5855]

Great video! ,, just wanted to check that if I use RAID 1, and the enclosure fails, at least one of the mirrored drives will be readable outside of the failed enclosure? Thanks again :)

[@voodoomotion5855]

also can you set 2 drives to RAID 1 and use the remaining 3 as JBOD? Thanks :)

[@MrF20100]

Hello Tony, it's possible make RAID1 with 4 disk : 16Tb & 16Tb & 10Tb & 10 Tb ?

[@Peshyy]

I know it's very late, but as per the official documentation - RAID1 supports only 2 HDDs in the enclosure. Sadly, you can't do 2 RAID1 arrays, you can only have 1.

[@QuickTimeTech]

can i use witout raid mode like normal mode. 5 drive with specific name?

[@r0galik]

JBOD mode (Just a Bunch Of Disks)

[@modernrecordingartist]

Nice! Eventually I realised I don't have enough cash to get a full Synology setup with all the right things to edit fast ON the drives inside, so I'm gonna use either this or an entry level Synology for storage, and then edit on an SSD.

[@jefftyt]

I found a usb c version of this, around 30 usd more, would you recommend it because the speed seem to be the same as this standard usb

[@henrichandrew]

@jefftyt.....The only different is the USB type C model support transfer data up to 10 Gbps (Theoretical speed), while the USB type B model up to 5 Gbps (Theoretical speed)

[@sa4555]

Actually I am planning to make a NAS on my Raspberry pi, this thing would fit very nicely

[@rodneyford3181]

How much$$ is it?

[@cosamic3740]

Noti gang

[@TonyTechBytes]

Thanks for watching!!

[@AndreiRusuFeraru]

I want to buy this enclosure for România as fast as possible. Can you get me in touch with the guys at ORICO? I wanna use with 5x 8TB Seagate Barracuda 5400rpm 256MB Cannot seem to find it anywhere to buy it :-(

[@thorable530]

Build quality is very solid, trays are metal clad in plastic i think, casing is very thick aluminum, no vibration mounts required, its just solid unlike the yottamaster junk i tried. Its loud as an air purifier though, but not as loud as previous orico raid models that had raid level leds in the front and had no trays behind the doors. Kind of wish they still had the raid leds in front though.

[@peteli4194]

Thanks for providing a little additional info. NewEgg though not many reviews had quite a few failure/data loss issues.

[@thorable530]

@@peteli4194 Mines the 3549RU3 though, only 4 bay but with trays. 3559RU3 would be the 5 bay raid, there is likely some pebcak with these things, though there is always the problem if the controller goes you have to buy another enclosure to save the data, so my other oricos are just 2 bay raid 1 for simplicity.

[@peteli4194]

@@thorable530 Whats the difference between the 3549 and the 9548 models? They're at very similar price points and from photos look identical. Can only find reviews on the 9548/58.

[@bufordmaddogtannen]

Try checking where yottamaster offices are and who owns the brand... 😁

[@peteli4194]

@@bufordmaddogtannen Thanks for the reply after such a long time. Already bought the bay and very happy with it! Got the 9548U3. Can't remember what the sales rep told me about the difference, think maybe 3549U3 was in raid configuration.

[@nasrollahambor6746]

This really helps if u have to many apps and file. This is very helpful to a multitask PC (gaming and for school purposes)

[@GanymedeXD]

Why does it help with that? No support for multitasking at all … if you have the enclosure or multiple hard disks attached … exactly the same outcome. Or simply one large hard disk. The benefit is that you can put multiple old hard disks into one enclosure as case space is limited … or combine smaller ones to a RAID system. I trashed all my external hard disks … binned cases and cables and have one tidy solution so I did not have 5 external each with usb connection and power connection. But with multitasking? Nothing at all aas just hard drives.

[@iamaflakefanmenoob4139]

imagine disliking tonys videos in 2020 . well tony is my favourite tec youtuber

[@filipesilva1094]

How much money do you normally make for each build (answer it only if it’s ok to you) I am thinking of becoming a pc builder and would really appreciate it if you helped me👍🏻

[@TonyTechBytes]

Filipe Silva Not very much if I’m going to be honest haha. Thanks for watching!

[@jaxon9250]

❤️

[@Dxeam]

Love it.

[@DVZNMedia]

great review, nice product! Data Hoarder Certified.

[@yamikhan5532]

PRIZE ?

[@piratedragon703]

Nice video actually just started getting into Organizing my systems over the years.. and man was there a lot of stuff, lot of duplicates and things I sorted through. Currently have 2 docks, that I am looking to upgrade... I consolidated almost all my data from my laptops to a 4tb drive, and my media to to another 4tb drive. I now have 3 extra drives laying around that I am going to use for current projects, and as I finish those projects, I save onto the 4tb drives. The docks while, I had them, are nice, but they just don't give that professional look. I don't really care too much about having it connected to my router, as I can connect to my computers through my network so thats not a big deal for me. I do run a plex server off my main desktop and one of my docked drives. Looking for a nicer set up, not sure if this is the one I want... but it seems like a good start. Faster transfer speeds wouldn't make a difference connected to the router vs usb to the computer I wouldn't think, im guessing it depends on the connection and speed of the drives? Is there anything else you might reccommend to look for around the same price range? Gotta do some homework on RAIDS.. i know a little but not enough to where I am comfortable with it yet.

[@retiredeu]

Lessss gooo boi

[@TonyTechBytes]

Lessss go0o0o0o

[@asian2843]

I may not be first but i am not last. Nice vid btw

[@ajskjon830]

noti gangggggg

[@ZXTech]

TIME FOR 8K with this upgrade huh

[@yopibram]

If i have 1 hdd for movies storage in there, and i use a laptop connect to another larger monitor, the bay must connect to the laptop or can i connect the bay to monitor (without laptop on)

[@chromerims]

Nice vid. I enjoy your excellent channel, wish you great success, man 👍. A few droppings of free advice below; kindly take it whichever way you want in your discretion: ► (1) If you put one of these enclosures into production (i.e. deployed to your hardware stack), then be sure to own and store an identical second one. When any single component on the first one dies or burns out, you will need the second unit for a non-gory recovery and prompt continuity. For example, good luck quickly finding a la carte an off-the-shelf power supply PSU that looks like that one. Or a replica of the proprietary internal RAID card running the same. With a second unit, one can restore by either . . . . . (i) just moving the drives (preferred route; but test this out in advance; it is good that one can test this in advance); or . . . . . (ii) keep the drives in place in Unit A then scavenge necessary replacement hardware components from Unit B to Unit A with soldering, wiring, drilling, hot-gluing, hammering and screwing your way to the promised land (less preferred; not easily testable without guaranteeing non-destruction on Units A or B). ► (2) 2:51 In general about hardware versus software raid . . . All hardware Raid suffers this problem of 'vendor lock.' Cordially advise to explore software alternatives like ZFS. Along those lines, cordially advise to downgrade from a Raid-based enclosure to a cardless JBOD box, which . . . . . (i) if such JBOD is USB, then simple; or . . . . . (ii) alternatively which if such is SAS/SATA, then add and enable a HBA card to your file-serving 'puter. ► (3) 2:37 Cordially advise covering the red/white Raid switches with black tape so no one messes with them accidentally or otherwise. To repeat ►(1) above, cordially advise to requisition a 2nd duplicate RAID card (and maybe triplicate, too). Cordially cannot stress that enough. Meanwhile, take very, very good care of the proprietary Raid controller inside the enclosure; keep the fan on high and keep the h/w Raid's caps and Vrms as cool as you can for their longevity. Kindest regards, neighbors.

[@nobodyfamous7496]

is this gluten free

[@supertoiletroll0184]

Hi tony

[@MattBrandon]

RAID: Redundant Array of Independent Disks

[@AcerMilkMan]

Lessgoo

[@TonyTechBytes]

Lessg0o0o0o0

[@scaliez3939]

TWERK TONY PLS JUST TWERK

[@TonyTechBytes]

I already have ;)

[@esuohdica]

An EarthQuake?! FFS

[@techviewer1]

Early gang ---->

[@TonyTechBytes]

Thanks for watching so early!

[@masadoraa]

Cool

[@TonyTechBytes]

justin so Thanks

[@krylo3558]

Dam that thing is bigger that your pc I think I’m not. Sure

[@TonyTechBytes]

Krylo It’s almost the same size lol

[@loucipher7782]

its just an over glorified enclosure sold at a NAS price, better use the money to build a new pc used as NAS. Tbh this thing should be sold at only half the price.

[@kyriakospaschalides6983]

Yooo

[@TonyTechBytes]

Yo0o0o0o

[@stokemoran]

Interesting, I have the 4-bay version of the Orico usb 3 raid. With four 4TB WD Red's, I'm getting close to the same read speed (about 236 mb/s) but my write is like 168 mb/s. Way off your write speeds.

[@malcolmcooper9509]

they are rubbish mine stopped working after a year