bikeman25 Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 (edited) Hello Everyone! Trying to decide which enclosure is best for my Seagate 8TB mechanical hard drive that i won in 2019 to use for The Household PC backups, Systems used with will be an Intel I7 10700, Gigabyte B460M_DS3H Motherboard (Think only USB 3.0, or 3.2 ports possibly lol, not exactly 100 percent sure lol, Laptop--HP 15_ce019dx, specs shows usb 3.1 and 3.1 type c port available, and 3rd System AMD A6-3620, HP P6-2133W, belive usb 3.0 on that system, enclosure #2 has those capabitlies to use 3.1 ports, USB enclosure #1, is just 3.0 enclosure. Any advice is welcome, as mainly looking for good speed when doing system backups, and good performance of said drive Vantec NST-371C31-BK NexStar Gx USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C 3.5" Sata HDD/SSD Enclosure, Comes with C to C and C to A Cable, Aluminum Casing, Black Or stick with this enclosure for it? RSHTECH Hard Drive Enclosure USB 3.0 to SATA Aluminum External Hard Drive Dock Case for 3.5 inch HDD SSD up to 12TB Drives [Support UASP] ((both purchased from Amazon in the past)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Biscuits Brown MVC Posted August 31, 2020 MVC Share Posted August 31, 2020 Well, I've had good luck with Vantec over the years. Never had (or heard of RSHTECH). I'd like the USB-C connector to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman25 Posted August 31, 2020 Author Share Posted August 31, 2020 (edited) Yeah i'm thinking i'll put the older Toshiba 2TB in the RSHTech one, and move the 8tb to other one i think at this point, Kinda wish my Desktop even had usb c connector as well, but guess can't have everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted August 31, 2020 Moderator Share Posted August 31, 2020 Don't buy Vantec. I only ever had problems with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman25 Posted September 1, 2020 Author Share Posted September 1, 2020 (edited) Too late already own it lol, found out though the drive in question is Seagate SMR 8tb drive lol, Seagate BarraCuda Compute 8TB, 3.5", SATA 6Gb/s (ST8000DM004) so no wonder it's slow when writing data to it for system images and such lol. will just have to put up with the 3-5 hours it takes to write the system images with Macirum Reflect Home Drive i didn't buy though, won it in a Twitter Contest in 2019, bought the usb 3.1 enclosure for Laptop mostly, and use with Desktop as well, and already own the RSHTech one also lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted September 1, 2020 Moderator Share Posted September 1, 2020 Long as it works, it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Supervisor Posted September 1, 2020 Supervisor Share Posted September 1, 2020 Hello, I have had good luck with Oyen Digital's drive enclosures in the past. Here is one for 3.5" SATA HDDs: https://oyendigital.com/hard-drives/store/3N1-C.html Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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