Vantec NexStar MXDual Bay External HDD Enclosure is a quick and simple way to expandstorage capacity to your computer. This enclosure may notcome with Hard drives like many other but you do get a lot morefeatures than a simple external Hard drive. ...

I bought this drive to use my 2 Seagate 2TB drives in raid 1 attached to my router. From the factory, the dip switch settings didn't match anything in the instruction manual. Initial format of individual drives (with the undocumentd dip switch setting)...

I bought this enclosure to replace the drive bays I was losing when switching from an old Mac Pro to a new Mac Mini. I have a 1 TB and a 2 TB drive in the enclosure, and turned JBOD off, so multiple volumes appear on the desktop. Drive installation was...

I was afraid I was going to have to reformat the hard drives I took from my PC that broke when I put them into this new enclosure. I will say that the fan, that always run when the console is on, can be a little loud but better a cool hard drive than...

Will get more as my Western Digital life books wearout.

The unit has a sticker on the inside that kind of throws you off when you're setting up JBOD or BIG, it's pointing one way, and the board says the opposite (and the instructions are a little fishy). **Go with the sticker, and push the switch that way**...

I will defently buy more.

Purchased this unit to replace an AMS Venus ES2 that bricked during a firmware update. I'll miss the removable air filter the other unit had, but all in all I feel the workmaship of the NexStar is better.

Good buy, easy to access, nothing complicated about it. Works fine. Only slight negative is that the fan is loud.

Works great with two 1tb drives, never had a problem with it, use it for weekly backups with no issues.