Oyen DigitalNovus USB-C Rugged 3.5-Inch External Hard Drive Enclosure

Works great as an external backup drive.

I've used a variety of external drive enclosures over the years, mostly just for USB drives attached to a computer. I bought the Novus because the drive I installed in it will have to go on the road with me from time to time and I wanted the protection afforded by the silicon "sleeve". It's electronics and a drive so I will treat it accordingly. The protection is for the occasional bump it may get.First, it arrived precisely as predicted, well done Amazon.Packaging was easy to open and everything was individually wrapped. There are actually PRINTED instructions included, although they're hardly necessary. This is a very simple, but well designed enclosure. And everything fits like a well engineered and constructed product. As nearly as I can tell it is manufactured in the USA using materials from the USA. But I could not find that specifically stated even on their web site.My 8TB (purchased separately) 3.5" drive slid right in - at a slight angle to enable aligning and mating the SATA connector in the case. This was very easy. Everything fit, aligned and went together perfectly. There was a small zip lock bag containing 12 screws - 8 for mounting the drive - only 4 required. Two different types provided. And there were four black screws to secure the "sled" inside the case. It is also very nice they included a small MAGNETIZED screwdriver. This is good because they ensure users have the right SIZE and tip screwdriver and also because the tiny screws are...tiny. MUCH easier to install using the magnetized screwdriver than trying to start them by hand.I may not get out enough but I haven't seen a lot of thunderbolt connectors, although I would like to. And I don't have any. So it is great that they also provided a USB-c - to - USB-A cable for connection to my system.The one 'ding' I'll give them is the freakin' wall wart! I would very much have preferred a slightly larger enclosure with the wall wart electronics inside the case and a normal AC power cord. I thought about taking off a star in the rating for that but they're not the only ones guilty of using them! So suffice to say, it's an area that NEEDS improvement.Overall, an excellent and very well designed and manufactured product. I would buy another if I needed another external enclosure and highly recommend them to anyone who may need one.

Hello ~ I purchased the Novus 14TB in April, 2021 and have been extremely pleased with it. I have 6+ terabytes of MP3s, Family Photos and old family movies I had converted from Super 8 to digital. Stuff I really did not want to lose and the drive synced all that data very quickly. I also use it to make a complete image of my computer in case something goes south and that too is very fast.I could go into the technical specs but it looks like other already have and I don;t want to bore you. I purchased this drive because I have been an owner of many Western Digital and Seagate external drives in the past and decided this time I wanted something with a USB C connection to speed things up and I was not disappointed by that choice.It is a solid drive but the real point I want to make here is that I did start to have issues with the drive on December 27th, 2021. For some reason the drive kept resetting in the middle of a backup. I played around a bit to figure out the issue and then gave up and opened an RMA. RMAs for me in the past with almost any vendor have been a long tedious process and actually speaking to a real human about the issue is almost unheard of now a days. Needless to say I was very surprised when Steve contacted me the next business days with a couple of suggestions. He was spot on that my cable was bad and after a quick trip to MicroCenter I was back up and running.I never write reviews on anything but I kinda felt obligated in this case as I have found this to be a fast solid drive backed up with really good customer service.

First off, the product seems robust and well equipped with cables and instructions. It seems to work well.However, it's made for the US market and ships only with an American two-pin adaptor. I can't find anything in the sales blurb that states this and Amazon does not seem to want me to contact the seller directly.I just don't understand why Amazon.sg sells products that weren't designed for the Singaporean market. I now have to go to a third party to enquire about replacement adaptors.Moreover, most adaptors nowadays come with a range of international fittings. Who still ships single market adaptors? 95% of us don't live in the US. Definitely time to broaden a few horizons.

Fast and low cost.