I purchased an aluminum Orico enclosure for my 20tb seagate ironwolf drive I just got to start digitizing my physical movie library. I’ve been having issues where makemkv will tell me writing has just failed, writing has timed out, or it just won’t work. I’ve attributed it to the external drive as if I write to my SSD inside the pc it works fine. When transferring files from the internal SSD to the external drive sometimes it takes minutes, sometimes more than an hour, some times not at all. A lot of the time it will max out writing at 5MB/s. The disk is reading healthy so I’m left with trying a new drive enclosure but everything I’m seeing on Amazon is some whatever name that comes with a warning “this item is frequently returned”. They all seem shoddy, like I’ll experience the same issue and have to go through a repeat process of return-rebuy. I can’t justify a QNAP TR04 at the moment, although I think I would eventually get one after I hit three drives. I only have one drive but I feel like that’s also the only real option.
What is a reliable drive enclosure that you can recommend so I can replace this and not have to go through this repeatedly?