For people who like to chase dramas and play large stand-alone games, large-capacity storage devices are the things they need the most, after all, if the computer host hangs too many hard disks, the requirements for the host power supply will increase, which means that the cost will increase, and this is not a particularly rational solution!
In fact, there is only one rational solution, and that is DIY storage devices. Ordinary users can buy a hard disk box at will and DIY a mobile hard disk; advanced users can start a multi-bay hard disk cabinet according to their own needs, so that they can try more and more professional storage experiences.
Five-bay support up to 80TB capacity
Because I am accustomed to downloading high-quality movies to play locally, I have a relatively professional multi-bay hard disk cabinet, that is, ORICO 9558RU3 five-bay hard disk cabinet (hereinafter referred to as ORICO hard disk cabinet). Frankly speaking, it has been a long time since I looked at this product, and recently I saw that its price is still quite attractive, so I decided to start with it, and I also matched it with 4 8TB Toshiba NAS hard disk N300 series mechanical hard disks. Well, we don't have much to say, experience sharing directly to everyone!
ORICO hard disk cabinet body size of 258x146x199.5mm, the whole machine is made of aluminum alloy material, from the above photos we can also see that its fuselage has also undergone a delicate frosting process, its texture is visible to the naked eye.
In terms of details, ORICO hard disk cabinet adopts integrated molding technology, and the processing of the side frame of the machine is very delicate and rounded, in general, the degree of care of product design is very intuitive.
In terms of design layout, the front of the ORICO hard disk cabinet has five separate hard disk compartment doors, in order to make the device more powerful in operation, the five compartment doors are also equipped with a grille with heat dissipation holes.
In addition, there is a small detail, that is, each warehouse door can be locked through a special key to avoid children in the home from accidentally touching and opening, or other unexpected conditions, I think this detail design of ORICO is worthy of praise.
Switching the perspective, we can also see that the inside of the orICO hard disk cabinet is printed with a hard disk installation schematic diagram, as well as a curved metal shrapnel, when we close the hard disk compartment door, it can make the hard disk and the inside of the hard disk cabinet more closely connected; when we open the warehouse door, there is also a push structure inside the hard disk cabinet, which can push the hard disk out of part, which is convenient for us to disassemble and replace.
The body of the ORICO hard disk cabinet is only printed with the logo, so we skip it and look directly at the back of its fuselage, from the above photo we can see the power switch, power jack, USB3.0 interface, SET button and four-digit dip switch, in addition to a 120mm fan for cooling the device.
For friends who often play RAID, this four-digit toggle switch is not complicated, if you do not understand too much, you can set it with the instructions, the operation is still very simple.
After a certain understanding of the external design of the ORICO hard disk cabinet, let's take a look at the mechanical hard disk I matched for it, the author started with 4 8TB Toshiba NAS hard disk N300 series, why the five-bay bit is only equipped with four hard disks, mainly this month's budget has approached the limit, men's wallet compatriots should understand.
Why is it a NAS hard drive and not a normal hard drive? Mainly because the NAS system needs to use NAS dedicated disk, NAS hard disk has to do shockproof, and support 24x7 all-weather operation, suitable for uninterrupted NAS operation, although orICO hard disk cabinet is not a real NAS product, but in some working modes, they have commonalities.
As for why the Toshiba NAS hard disk N300 series is chosen, mainly because the product performance has sufficient advantages, for example, to achieve up to 180TB / year workload, 7x24 hours 365 days a day 7 running capacity, for large NAS server systems and RAID optimization, etc., of course, do not exclude some of the impact of price.
In addition, Toshiba NAS hard disk N300 series fully use CMR technology, as we all know, the biggest advantage of CMR technology is that the writing speed is fast, the hard disk life is long, which means that even if you need to carry out frequent erasing and writing operations, we do not have to worry too much about the service life of the hard disk.
▲Actual experience
After a brief understanding of the ORICO hard disk cabinet and the Toshiba NAS hard disk N300 series, let's see how they perform in practice.
For the support of ORICO hard disk cabinets, ORICO has specially prepared an application software called HW RAID Manager, which allows us to manage orico disk array storage information, and various RAID modes of fool-like components.
ORICO HW RAID Manager Official Edition supports RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 10, LARGE, CLONE 7 RAID modes. We can set it up according to our own needs, and the operation is very simple.
In addition, it also supports displaying the working status of the disk, supporting fault alarm prompts, improving the read and write rate of the hard disk and the security of the data, and important information can be monitored and mastered at any time.
After understanding the software application, let's check the disk settings, here and the novice partner to say, if your hard disk is not more than 2TB, then you choose the MBR partition form; if it exceeds 2TB, then it is recommended to choose the GPT partition form, as for the reason, do not understand can ask Baidu, here the author will not repeat.
Toshiba NAS hard disk N300 series with ORICO hard disk cabinet after the read and write rate author also did a simple test, you can see that whether it is reading or writing, its speed is maintained at 220MB / S, here I also say more, for mechanical hard disks, such a read and write speed has been very good, in fact, we should pay more attention to its stability.
In addition, because I usually like to play some large stand-alone games, so in the test, I also specially imported the "battlefield" into the hard disk cabinet, played a bit, felt that the game experience is still quite smooth, during the game did not appear any obvious Caton, it can be seen that Toshiba NAS hard disk N300 series in the performance of the ORICO hard disk cabinet is still very stable.
▲Experience summary
In fact, in addition to speed measurement, I have also done some other experiences, such as how loud will it be when it works? Running continuously for 24 hours, will the sound it makes affect our rest? Because the author does not have a pure silent room environment, I will simply share my intuitive feelings with you! First of all, it can be determined that it can not work silently, after all, there is a fan behind it; in addition, the mechanical hard disk will have some sound because of the influence of the speed when working, but compared to other ambient sounds, the ORICO hard disk cabinet will have a sound when running, but it will not affect our rest.
Well, the experience of the ORICO hard disk cabinet is shared with you here, if you have anything else you want to know, you can leave a message directly below the article.