Disaster Enclosures
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I purchased 2 of these Orico 5 bay enclosures.

After a good amount of time, I plotted 8x 8TB drives using GPUs and placed 4 in each box and connected to my miner.
The miner started to go crazy with I/O errors, I switched to Linux and same story occurred, I got back to Windows and plots got corrupted on all of the drives !!! I gave it another chance by plotting and placing ONE HDD on each box, This time plots got corrupted before connecting them to the miner machine xD
Amazon won't refund and Orico are not responding to my communication.
My message to fellow Bursters, DON'T buy this B.S!
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@rnahlawi Sorry for your troubles...just out of curiosity: are 8TB drives supported by this enclosure according to their user manual (or their spec sheet) ? Some enclosures don't support 8TB drives only smaller ones like up to 6TB...
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@rnahlawi i made some research, seams this one is limited to max. 4TB size of drives.
http://geizhals.eu/790858460
All i can do for you is suggest this cases ...
http://geizhals.eu/fantec-qb-35us3-6g-black-1695-a1195884.html?hloc=at&hloc=de&hloc=pl&hloc=uk&hloc=eu
Personally had it run with 4x8TB ...
It is work, but you may be able to sell the enclusure on ebay, if you can not use them, just mention they only support 4TB per drive.
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@luxe Thanks alot, the cartoon box mentioned power supply that supports 40TBs (my simplest conclusion was 5x8TB).
I have 4TBs which I can swap from Miner to those enclosures, but honestly I had enough disappointments from these boxes and don't want to spend more time on it.
I'll invest in PCI-SATA cards instead
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@rnahlawi ok if it was on the box, it is surely a better source than mine ...
What kind of pci-e cards did you order?
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@luxe didn't order yet, what do you recommend?
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@rnahlawi depends for what sata/sas or usb3 :-)
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@luxe Prefer SATA, USB hubs fail fast :)
Was thinking of this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ESFEI2E/ref=twister_B016EMCDYI?_encoding=UTF8&th=1
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@rnahlawi lot of controllers out there ... depends on what PCIe options you have ...

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express
PCIe 2 x2 is max. 1GB per sec. may limit your drives a little at 115MB/s per drive ... but quite cheap, i made my decision here:
https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/3479/sas-9305-24i-host-bus-adapter
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@rnahlawi said in Disaster Enclosures:
@luxe Prefer SATA, USB hubs fail fast :)
Was thinking of this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ESFEI2E/ref=twister_B016EMCDYI?_encoding=UTF8&th=1https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124070&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel--Content--text-_-
Same card but $5 more but .99 cent shipping.
Great card, I use one with helium drives no errors, 8tb and 10tb drives


