Has anyone in the UK purchased this?

Mediasonic PROBOX 4 Bay 3.5” SATA Hard Drive Enclosure – USB 3.0 & eSATA Support 18TB HDD (HF2-SU3S3) 2022 New Chipset https://amzn.eu/d/9DYIlM2

I’m trying to get a drive enclosure in the UK I’ve seen TERRAMASTER, ORICO, and Mediasonic. I would personally like to get the mediasonic but not sure if import tax would get hit via amazon and also the plug would be US and not UK.

So if you have this in the UK how did you make it work?

  • TADataHoarderBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Expect 300MB/s transfer rate for the entire enclosure. If that’s fine with you, it should be usable.
    It doesn’t support hotswap though. Removing a drive (or one erroring out) in operation will reboot (disconnect/reconnect) the entire unit power cycling each drive. Bad for a high availability system but fine for a cheap DAS for the price.

    • Not-Known_GuyOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s just to store media for my plex server nothing more at the moment. I have 4TB inside the unit but it’s a small mini tower. I do have another 4TB to attach and ideally id like to use. But think I’ll just invest in one big drive and save for a better caddy for the future(year) and get a decent one next Black Friday or Xmas sales.