3 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure with Cooling Fan for 2.5“/3.5″ SATA HDD/SSD with USB A/C 3.0, Support 60TB, Hot Swappable, Daisy Chain Expansion, Tool-Free HDD Enclosure, DAS(NO RAID/NAS)

3 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure with Cooling Fan for 2.5“/3.5″ SATA HDD/SSD with USB A/C 3.0, Support 60TB, Hot Swappable, Daisy Chain Expansion, Tool-Free HDD Enclosure, DAS(NO RAID/NAS)

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3 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure with Cooling Fan for 2.5“/3.5″ SATA HDD/SSD with USB A/C 3.0, Support 60TB, Hot Swappable, Daisy Chain Expansion, Tool-Free HDD Enclosure, DAS(NO RAID/NAS)
Price: $73.99
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Customers say

Customers find the hard drive enclosure works well, with one mentioning it performs flawlessly as a steam game drive. The product is easy to set up, requiring no tools, and customers appreciate that their drives are recognized immediately by their computers. They like its storage capacity for high-capacity drives and its fast transfer rates, particularly for Jellyfin. While some customers find it not too noisy, others note the fan noise is just loud enough. Customers consider it a great value.

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93 customers mention "Works well"81 positive12 negative

Customers report that the hard drive enclosure functions well, working right out of the box, with one customer specifically mentioning it performs flawlessly as a steam game drive.

"Works great, easy to setup. Everything fits snugly and was easy to swap drives. Computer sees it without a problem." Read more
"Works well, but the constant fan is noisy. It's on all the time regardless if the drives are in active use or not." Read more
"…It works fine and the price was not bad at all although I think if I had to do it again I would have bought the three or four bay over the two bay…." Read more
"…It’s fast, reliable, and doesn’t take up much space. Perfect for anyone who values their tech and wants to keep it safe." Read more
87 customers mention "Build quality"73 positive14 negative

Customers praise the build quality of the hard drive enclosure, describing it as a nice little unit that is well-built.

"Great item very easy to setup" Read more
"…I been using it for about 6 weeks with no problems. So far a great product." Read more
"Excelente producto" Read more
"…The fan is much louder than i expected. Overall good product" Read more
52 customers mention "Ease of setup"52 positive0 negative

Customers find the hard drive enclosure easy to set up, particularly noting that installing both 2.5" and 3.5" drives is simple.

"…While the trays are toolless and easy to use, but you will need something to pry the plastic clips out when removing the drive, unless you enjoy…" Read more
"…It’s built sturdy, easy to set up, and the cooling fan keeps everything running smooth without getting too hot…." Read more
"Works great, easy to setup. Everything fits snugly and was easy to swap drives. Computer sees it without a problem." Read more
"I'm shocked but this thing is awesome! So easy to set up and use. Plug and play and my old 3TB HD is running and I all of my old files are back!" Read more
43 customers mention "Compatibility"32 positive11 negative

Customers report that the hard drive enclosure works well with their drives, with multiple customers noting that their computers recognized the drives immediately.

"…You also can't beat the price! Also can confirm that it works with 2.5 and 3.5 drives." Read more
"Works as a drive bay, but is as loud as a commercial airline jet. Definitely not silent, just a constant very loud fan noise." Read more
"It disconnects from your computer right in the middle of transferring files. Transferring files is extremely slow…." Read more
"…Computer recognized the drive immediately, but the fan NOISE is unbearable. We sent a request for help to Cenmate. If no help, we need to return." Read more
30 customers mention "Storage capacity"29 positive1 negative

Customers appreciate the hard drive enclosure's storage capacity, particularly its ability to provide additional 2TB of backup space and allow multiple drives to be accessible at once. One customer mentions it works well with Windows Storage Spaces, while another notes it's great for high-capacity drives.

"This was the only enclosure I could find that could handle 20tb drives. I bought the 2 bay just to make sure and then bought the 6 bay unit…." Read more
"…Simply created a new volume and bam – tons of storage. Writes fast. Reads fast enough for Jellyfin. I'm stoked about this setup…." Read more
"This drive enclosure is very useful….I had a couple of drives setting around and never knew if they were good or bad and i did not want to open up…" Read more
"…It is a tradeoff between a simple dual bay enclosure that I can attach to a single USB port on my Mini PC and not need to add a USB hub to the mix…." Read more
28 customers mention "Transfer speed"24 positive4 negative

Customers praise the hard drive enclosure's transfer speed, noting it reads fast enough for Jellyfin and maintains consistent performance.

"…It’s fast, reliable, and doesn’t take up much space. Perfect for anyone who values their tech and wants to keep it safe." Read more
"…it is fast at transferring data, and each HB is read separately. Way recommended!" Read more
"…It is completely effective at doing what it does with nice speeds, I am able to access a bunch of older drives and keep them in this array, and it…" Read more
"Not too loud. Fast enough for me. Organize all your random HDDs in one place. I shucked 5 external drive and still have an extra slot." Read more
25 customers mention "Value for money"23 positive2 negative

Customers find the hard drive enclosure to be a great value.

"Great value and wonderful coustomer support!…" Read more
"…Very easy to use and very portable! Not to mention a great price. I bought two, 2tb hard drives and no issues!…" Read more
"Nice enclose and a good value. I was looking at upgrading my NAS with more slots and I noticed that NAS systems have gotten expensive…." Read more
"…’re backing up data or just organizing your storage, this enclosure is a great investment. It’s fast, reliable, and doesn’t take up much space…." Read more
76 customers mention "Noise level"38 positive38 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the noise level of the hard drive enclosure, with some finding it not too noisy while others note that the fan noise is just loud enough.

"…However, putting in a 22TB will not work. The fan is quiet but not enough air-flow to cool a 7200rpm 18TB hard drive; ordering a better fan…." Read more
"Cool enclosure but the fan is loud. Doesn;t matter than much to me, but if this was somewhere that silence was important, pick something else." Read more
"Got two 4tb hhd sata in this. Booted perfect and quiet . Just a slight hum ." Read more
"…out of the box, it didn't recognize my 2 Samsung SSD drives and was very noisy, also the lights that resembled the top of a police car constantly…" Read more





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5 out of 5 stars

Great Value
I recently bought a laptop and got rid of my desktop, and in the process, I had three drives that I wanted to keep. One of my drives was not being recognized by the hard drive device I had bought many years ago, so I decided to give this enclosure a try. I recognized the drive I was having issues with and I was able to transfer the images over to a larger drive and wipe the smaller drive clean. I now have the larger drive as my main storage for my photographic images. I would recommend this enclosure highly; it is well made and easy to swap out drives if needed. There is virtually no noise associated with it, no heat generated by it. The price was very reasonable, and it will travel well due to the size, and it doesn't clutter up my desk. Tool free installation of drives and it is hot-swappable. Powered by a plug in AC supply, which I think enhances the capabilities.
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  • Sameer S.

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Works with windows storage spaces. Instant no-fuss setup

    Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2025

    Model: 2 BayVerified Purchase

    Great all-round! RAID is not officially supported, but this worked easily, instantly, and flawlessly with Windows Storage Spaces to set up a mirrored array for 2x 14TB drives for a Plex server.

    Also, I have no idea what the volume warning about 40-50gb fans is talking about; the fan is virtually silent.

    Solid build quality, tool-less plastic trays. Seems sturdy enough. Exactly what I wanted for a respectable price.

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  • José Barrantes

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Tight fit, but pretty good.

    Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2025

    Model: 2 BayVerified Purchase

    Using it for a home NAS, had it for a couple of months, no issues so far, but HDD fits tightly into bracket, for the first 30 minutes I thought I wasn’t installing it right, but it’s just a really tight fit, too tight for my taste. The seller claims the fan is pretty loud, but to me it seems alright, not particularly loud, my desktop is way louder on idle. Other than that, the build quality feels good, the HDD slides in smoothly and clicks into place nicely.

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  • J

    4.0 out of 5 stars

    READ THIS REVIEW FIRST!

    Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2025

    Model: 3 BayVerified Purchase

    This enclosure is a quality, functional and thoughtful R&D-ed product!

    THE GOOD:
    This is an excellent little enclosure! I was surprised at how compact it is. I bought the 3-bay version, and I honestly couldn't be happier with it!

    I've seen a lot of the negative reviews on this brand, and while I can't speak to the two-bay, four-bay or other sized enclosures, I can say my 3-bay works great!

    Some complaint-reviews talk about not being able to get the drives to align and seat properly with each drive's power and data connections, and fit properly inside the enclosure. NOT TRUE! To be fair, I had this issue at first, as well. However, this isn't due to a design flaw, it's due to (user error.)

    This is a precision built enclosure! If you install your hard drive into the removable tray, (but fail) to ensure that (each) of the 4 plastic hard drive retention clips are properly seated into each of the hard drive screw-holes, the drive will be almost imperceptably askew, thereby denying the drive the ability to seat in the power and data connections, inside the enclosure.

    Once you get the hard drive properly installed on the tray, the drive will slide in perfectly to the connections, and lock into place.

    The metal housing has a high-quality textured black protective coating. The plastic drive trays are thoughtfully designed with functional precision, purpose and clever resolution. The drive tray, spring-loaded locking buttons serve a dual purpose as a drive release mechanism as well as an air inlet for airflow. It's really quite a clever solution for two problems! Not only that, but they made the release buttons ergonomic and contoured to your fingers, and gave the buttons a beautiful, contrasting blue color as well.

    THE BAD?
    There isn't much to say that's bad. Some people complain about the noise from this enclosure, in their reviews. I don't see what they're saying. As I mentioned above, I have the 3-bay enclosure, so of course, you have the noise of the 3 hard drives spinning, but that isn't the fault of the enclosure.

    The cooling fan of the enclosure has a quiet hum to it. I don't find it to be loud, even when it's the only sound in the room at night.

    The one negative thing I can come up with is the hard drive mounting trays have little plastic posts that insert into the hard drive mounting holes, to secure the drive to the tray. I had to format the drive a couple of times. After removing the drive a few times, one of the four plastic posts snapped off inside the mounting hole.

    Beyond that, I love this enclosure!

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  • S. McCartin

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Easy to setup no issues, does have a 12v ac adapter to plug in, 2.5 or 3.5" drives

    Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2025

    Model: 2 BayVerified Purchase

    This external cabinet connects via usb 2 or 3 and has two bays. (units can be daisy chained) It will accept 2.5 or 3.5" drives and ssd's. You need to plug in the 12v adapter for power it doesn't run off usb. The toughest part of setting this up was figuring out how the 2.5" ssd installed in the tray, the picture is basically flipped but no biggie the 2.5" drive screws to the bottom of the tray not the sides on the right side. You may wish to use a magnetic phillips screw driver so you don't lose the screws when you put them in. They give you a good number of screws in case you lose one. This took me probably less than twenty minutes to setup, the biggest headache for me was where to plug in the 12v adapter. Pull out the tray (no key, squeeze the release on the front of the tray) screw in the drive push it back into the cabinet and with the rear power switch off plug in the usb and power plug, the usb cable is C or A on one side and the really old blocky stacked usb connector (I don't even remember what it's called anymore) at the case. I just set it on top of my computer, don't notice any noisy fan issues at least not yet which is the only complaint I've seen about this unit in the reviews. It works fine and the price was not bad at all although I think if I had to do it again I would have bought the three or four bay over the two bay. I put a corsair drive in here, it worked right away no fiddling. To enter drive administration on windows 11 you right click over the start button and it's on that menu. Used MBR for a 2 tb drive and let windows format it, was done in a couple of minutes you will be asked to choose the drive letter. Using this for a steam game drive had to go into steam settings and tell steam to use this drive. Very easy no headaches. The trays on this are plastic but as long as you aren't rough with it they should take the daily use without breaking easily. I did reboot after I installed this, not sure you really need to because it is hot swap but that's pretty ingrained in my psyche as I'm an old computer builder. Update: been using this a couple of months been working flawlessly as a steam game drive. I don't hear the fans at all so perhaps that might be to do with the number of bays etc. I notice you can now buy replacement drive trays on amazon (under 10 bucks not expensive). My only wish might be for a version that installs in 5.25 external case bays and uses the same trays. I'll be replacing my PC soon will get a larger version so I can easily swap the drives around. Very satisfied so far been using a usb A 3.0 plug on the case for data cable no issues. One small complaint, us old farts, especially if our hands are getting weak might have a hard time getting the drawer to release by squeezing. I installed a new drive tonight without turning anything off worked great so the hot swap part works properly but when I tried to remove the drive tray it was VERY VERY resistant to being removed with the drive installed. Yes I like the idea of the connections being tight but I now appreciate my other drive bay product that has a 'lever type" arrangement on the front to give leverage to get the connections to part. If you have monstrous kids (or stupid roomies) that can't keep their hands off things you might like the idea that they couldn't easily pull a drive out at the wrong moment but I don't have that issue. Just be aware the first few times you pull these drives out you might have to have one person holding the cabinet while you try to wrestle the tray out. The drawers just don't really give you enough purchase on the tray to pull it out because only the tips of your fingers fit in the slots on the front.

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  • David Leonhardt

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Great Value

    Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2025

    Model: 2 BayVerified Purchase

    I recently bought a laptop and got rid of my desktop, and in the process, I had three drives that I wanted to keep. One of my drives was not being recognized by the hard drive device I had bought many years ago, so I decided to give this enclosure a try. I recognized the drive I was having issues with and I was able to transfer the images over to a larger drive and wipe the smaller drive clean. I now have the larger drive as my main storage for my photographic images. I would recommend this enclosure highly; it is well made and easy to swap out drives if needed. There is virtually no noise associated with it, no heat generated by it. The price was very reasonable, and it will travel well due to the size, and it doesn't clutter up my desk. Tool free installation of drives and it is hot-swappable. Powered by a plug in AC supply, which I think enhances the capabilities.

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    David Leonhardt

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Great Value

    Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2025


    I recently bought a laptop and got rid of my desktop, and in the process, I had three drives that I wanted to keep. One of my drives was not being recognized by the hard drive device I had bought many years ago, so I decided to give this enclosure a try. I recognized the drive I was having issues with and I was able to transfer the images over to a larger drive and wipe the smaller drive clean. I now have the larger drive as my main storage for my photographic images. I would recommend this enclosure highly; it is well made and easy to swap out drives if needed. There is virtually no noise associated with it, no heat generated by it. The price was very reasonable, and it will travel well due to the size, and it doesn't clutter up my desk. Tool free installation of drives and it is hot-swappable. Powered by a plug in AC supply, which I think enhances the capabilities.

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  • Markov3x
    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Perfect

    Reviewed in Australia on November 25, 2025

    Model: 2 BayVerified Purchase

    Fantastic little box.

    Had a few left over 3.5" drives floating around and my server only has SAS cages for my server.
    This thing was plug and play, and using a bit of linux scripting they power up and down according to usage.
    Been running consistently for a couple of months now and am very happy.

    Considering buying a couple more



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  • Stephen Burdett
    5.0 out of 5 stars

    External hard drive enclosure

    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2025

    Model: 2 BayVerified Purchase

    Good piece of kit, easy to set up and works perfectly. Fans slightly noisy but not unacceptable.



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  • José Luís Ribeiro Lopes
    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Good dock

    Reviewed in Spain on September 3, 2025

    Model: 6 BayVerified Purchase

    Works well. The noise fan is almost not noticeable compared to the HDDs themselves spinning.



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  • Nik
    4.0 out of 5 stars

    Loud

    Reviewed in the Netherlands on October 11, 2025

    Model: 4 BayVerified Purchase

    It’s a little loud but it works



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  • surf2
    5.0 out of 5 stars

    pratique

    Reviewed in France on October 23, 2025

    Model: 2 BayVerified Purchase

    Très bien pour recycler des disques durs et obtenir une baie de stockage pour les sauvegardes. L'installation se fait en quelques minutes seulement.
    Le ventilateur est audible mais s'oublie vite.



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Product Summary: CENMATE 3 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure with Cooling Fan for 2.5“/3.5" SATA HDD/SSD with USB A/C 3.0, Support 60TB, Hot Swappable, Daisy Chain Expansion, Tool-Free HDD Enclosure, DAS(NO RAID/NAS)

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【Reliable External Storage System for Individuals and business】The 3.5 hard drive enclosure supports 2.5/3.5 inches HDD and SSD, max capacity up to 20TB for each hard drive, it’s a ideal external hard drive enclosure for personal or enterprise using.Save space on your desktop or laptop.
【No heat】The sata enclosure built in Aluminum-Alloy materials and 2.7 inch Fan.Maximize the security of your data. NOTE：Fan noise is around 40-50 decibels, not recommended if you are very sensitive to noise.
【Up to 5Gbps】This 3.5 hard drive enclosure equips with GL3510+ASM1153E chips and USB 3.0 output interface.Transfer 1G files in 3-5 seconds with USB 3.0 Ports, which is 10 times faster than USB 2.0.
【Hot Swappable Convenience】The HDD enclosure supports hot swapping, allowing users to replace hard drives without powering off the device. This feature enhances convenience and efficiency in data transfer processes.
【Tool-Free Installation】Featuring a tool-free hard drive tray design, the external hard drive enclosure enables easy installation and removal of hard drives without requiring additional tools. Plug and play! No fuss, no muss!
【Daisy Chain Expansion】Add a USB HOST port for external hard drive enclosure and daisy chain to expand capacity. Expansion 180TB storage through daisy chain up to 3 devices
【Wide Compatibility, Plug and Play】Equipped with USB A/C 3.0 Cable.Compatible with Windows 7 and above, Mac 9.1 and above, Linux.
【Quality Assurance】Cenmate provides friendly technical support.If you have any questions about the product, please don’t hesitate to contact us, reply and solve your problem within 24 hours.

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