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Are all USB3 SATA enclosures bad? (self.hardware)

submitted 1 month ago by GreatBlueHeron to c/[email protected]

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I've just had a 2nd USB3 SATA enclosure go bad. I can't remember what the first one was. This one is an Orico MS400U3. It was plugged into a Linux box with one drive and the drive started reporting strange errors so I removed the drive and connected it direct to SATA and it's working fine - after fsck fixed the errors on it. I thought maybe the USB port on the Linux box might be bad so I plugged the Orico into a Windows PC with a known good 1TB drive in it (a different drive than originally gave errors) - Windows sees the drive as 115PB and won't let me format it.

Is there any explanation for this other than the controller board in the enclosure somehow failing?

I'm thinking of going for this StarTech one next. Any other suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've had the most issues with adapters which use ASMedia chips but they're so ubiquitous in these devices they're impossible to avoid. Try googling the ASMedia chip model number to see if people report issues before buying if it's data you care about.