USB3.0 operation unreliable

I thought it was really great that the housing is made of aluminum, because it helps keep the heat better to direct to the outside as one made of plastic. I ordered one and a silver one, a black housing. The first silver casing had abrasions and the controller board flew freely in the housing around - the exchange housing then a scratch on the other side of the case. In addition, it had now sporadic disconnections, the plate turned, but the LED is no longer lit up.

The black case arrived without scratches, but the board had apparently even the OEM name "VLI product string" set instead of using the company name or to view the disks SN. Does not change the functionality, but says something about the quality control.

In both cases the LED is fairly bright. I found disturbing.

Power:

First, the negatives: USB3.0 mode worked with a Renesas / NEC chipset only partially, after restarting the housing was often only recognized as USB2.0 - by plugging into the same port again USB3.0. Since I run the housing as an external data partition my HTPC / Home Server, which is not acceptable. After hours of driver / firmware update, I ordered another case, and lo and behold, no problems. Whether it's just an incompatibility with the Renesas / NEC chip, or other the same thing happened, I could not figure out.

If the USB3.0 mode works, creating the housing to the 200MB / s read / 160MB / s write. The tested SSD connected directly guaranteed 425 / 182MB / s, see here:

Other:

The housing needs by pressing a button and then pull off the metal sides of the housing be opened. It is not so that the metal sides jump by pressing a button, which I found very positive. The housing in the black version attracts fingerprints. It fit 7 or 9 mm hard drives clean, a thicker hard drive I do not possess, but the 9mm sitting flush in the housing there - I do not think that is a thicker fit.

The included USB cable is a Y-cable, so you can help out particularly power-hungry hard drives without any additional cables. The Lederimmitat bag sits well on the housing, but does not feel wertig on. Unfortunately, the Controller of the case, neither the information on SMART forwards even further on the temperature of the hard drive to your PC. SMART is not 100% reliable, but to good use as an extra warning HDD death.

Conclusion:

Cheap housing that in 2.0 mode can be operated without any major problems, if you caught one that has no scratches. In USB3.0 mode, if it works without any problems, to make good use of hard drives, SSDs are too thwarted.

I found it frankly bad, the shape of the case, I found very appealing. Some might say, for the price you can not ask much more real. I say: a reliable USB3.0 mode already.