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Your cart is empty.The NexStar JX, USB 3.2 Gen1x1, 3.5" or 2.5” SATA III HDD/SSD Drive Green Enclosure with eSATA is a redesigned enclosure for easy removal of the drive. It features a hard aluminum case that effectively draws away the heat to keep your hard drive running at optimal temperature. This NexStar JX comes with smart and green features to extend the life of the drive by spinning down when the system goes to sleep thus saving energy when it is not in use. The latest UASP protocol and SATA III 6Gbps support faster transfer and backup of files. We at VantecUSA, built this NexStar JX series to continue the same tradition of the legacy NexStar 3 series that is designed to last and grow with you.
Greg P
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2025
Using this for a DVR and it's been going 24 x 7 solid with no issues. With ESATA drives disappearing, I hope they continue to make this enclosure because it's good quality and a good price.
James A. Franks
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2024
The product is as advertised a quality external enclosure for a hard drive. The enclosure is metal, the parts are packaged for easy use andthe instructions for assemby are clear and easily followed.It would be nice if the cable bags were labeled. That being said it a joy to open, construct and use. Thank you, I'm hooked on the company.
RadX
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2024
I put in a 14TB WD Purple drive and am using it as an external eSATA drive for Synology NAS to act as storage for Surveillance Station set up with 6 cameras. I have a couple of fans blowing on it so there is no issue with temperature; the drive reports around 41C.This isn't really part of the review, but might help someone:Surveillance Station does not normally allow for an external drive to be used as storage, but does allow "remote" storage. This is really a terrible oversight on Synology's part and I was very disappointed to learn about this only after purchasing the enclosure.If you search online you will find some workarounds that people did, but I didn't like any of them so I came up with my own.I created a remote storage link that actually points to the local external drive.Now Synology won't let you specify the same IP/hostname as the NAS itself for a remote folder, so you have to create a new DNS entry in your local network environment that simply points to the same device. For example my NAS hostname is simply diskstation, so I added another DNS entry called diskstation_ext that points to the same IP as diskstation.Also, for whatever reason you can only setup a CIFS remote share through "Recording" > "Archive Settings" > "Mount Remote Storage". So what I did after in File Station was to delete the remote folder created by Surveillance Station, and re-create it using the NFS protocol, using the same folder name. You'll want to check the "Mount automatically on startup" option in File Station, and UNCHECK it in Surveillance Station.I don't know if it makes a difference using NFS vs CIFS in this scenario, but NFS is generally considered a more performant protocol.So far, this setup seems stable and persists after reboots without issue.
desmond winstanley
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 14, 2024
UK BUYER - I needed a esata caddy for an external hard drive for my REOLINK NVR and could not find a decent one in the UK so took a chance on this one from Amazon US -- Works perfect -- i had a feeling the plug might be a problem when i purchased but that was a quick fix, it does come with an American plug but that is an easy £10 fix, a UK 12v 2amp power adaptor works fine (i had an old external Hard drive power plug in a draw - Lucky me)
Amaruk
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2024
We use this enclosure to expand the recording capacity of security system (eSATA). It works great! The enclosure feels like high quality and it is very easy to install the drive in it. It is also great that they include both an eSATA and a USB cable. Way to go!
Artphoto
Reviewed in Canada on April 13, 2024
This enclosure does what it's supposed to do.The transfer speeds are excellent and it doesn't slow down.It may get hot if you do use it for a long time or in a hot climate.Being in Canada,heat is not a real problem here. :)Recommended.
DSh
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2023
The company said this enclosure supports the drives up to 20TB. This is incorrect, it does support a 22TB Seagate IronWolf NAS drive, which is maximum size available nowadays, that I just installed and formatted inside enclosure. The speed from my NAS to this enclosure/drive is 255MB/sec on large files, which is not fantastic, but this is USB, so what could we expect? Also I had to format it as exFAT to make it compatible across different systems, not EXT3 or EXT4. That probably affected the speed pushing it down. The NAS has eSATA port, but I don't want to shut the NAS down just to connect to this port and I'm not sure how the NAS will react to this enclosure, since these 2 existing ports are designed for their brand DX enclosures/extenders, so the cable can be their own standard and not exactly eSATA. But I will verify that with Synology support. The main idea was to use this enclosure with a huge hard drive as a detachable backup drive and it works this way. I saw some customer's complaints about heat issues. Definitely a closed enclosure with no fan is not the best idea, but having a fan with magnetic field near hard drive would be a serious catch. On the other hand, the design could be better, the hard drive surface could be connected to the enclosure surface to provide a passive cooling, it would be enough here. A sliding in/out design will prevent me from adding a cooling pad to this enclosure, it won't work since both surfaces of the pad need to be carefully attached. I will keep that in mind, probably it will be an issue in my case too with this enormously huge hard drive, if so I will port an update to this review later. But so far so good, the surface of the enclosure is barely noticeable warmer in just one spot, comparing to the rest of the enclosure. It seems like a good sign.As promised - updating several days later. The enclosure is running non-stop with a 22TB drive inside for several days, ran a really huge backup with millions of files - no complaints, works pretty well. During the top load the temperature of the enclosure was slightly higher, than the room, while during the idle time the temperature of the enclosure is almost the same as the room temperature - no complaints here. I will definitely need to check the SATA port one day in the future, but I guess it will work, because the company has mentioned in the manual what port it is and how it is comparable with other SATA like ports, used in NAS. Very good point for the ESATA port usage. The average speed through the USB port is around 270-290 MB/sec, which is more or less ok for an external drive file backup.
Jason
Reviewed in Canada on October 21, 2023
Easy to install and works great. I am using it for my shaw PVR and have no problems with it .
Mr. Mac
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2023
I bought this as I needed an external enclosure for a WD Red Pro HDD that could attach to my Synology NAS via eSATA. This was pretty much the only option available on Amazon. It worked exactly as intended. Was recognized by the NAS, ran the drive just fine, and kept things cool. The only thing I found a little annoying was the big blue status LED on the front. Also, the LED malfunctioned one time and kept blinking when the drive was idle. Had to reset the enclosure. Other than that, not much else to say other than it works just fine. I have some other Vantec brand external enclosures for blu-ray rippers and they work flawlessly.
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