I picked one of these up on a previous drop. It’s not a good product. Massdrop should stop offering it. Drives would barely format and disconnect all the time. This was on Windows. On my current model Mac, drives would not format at all.
I got got one from a different manufacturer and it works, but I don’t see the benefit over a simple enclosed external drive. They are no more expensive than internal drives. I wish I had done my research more. Waste of money.
AhhpancakesYeah can verify from getting one of these at retail from a Best Buy some time ago. The connectivity is extremely spotty/inconsistent, and on top of that, far louder than you would expect them to be. This was for a USB2.0, single bay SATA compatible version (looks exactly like the single bay one above), so YMMV, but I would stay away given another chance at one of these. It finally just failed completely, and that was in a little over a year of only kinda working in the first place. :/
AhhpancakesQFT. Awful dock, HDDs keep disconnecting, even they don't, file transfers stop for some reason very frequently, so a 100mb/s turns into 30mb/s at best. My ancient USB2 dock is a lot more reliable and apparently faster than this USB3 one.