Though they have their flaws, I've been an fan and advocate of these drives for a long time now.
I got the Zalman-VE300 because it was the cheapest HDD enclosue available to me back then. It turned out an absolute gem that pleased me through about two years and countless OS installations at an IT Support gig.
When the brittle jog-dial broke and I researched the thing, it turned out to have been a Zalman rebranded IODD-2531, to extend IODD's very limited market capability (korea, china, russia). So I got the successor IODD-2541 from russia.
Later, I got a IODD-mini through the failed crowdfunding campaign. SSD, screen, physical enclosure were all lousy quality.
About a year ago, I bought the ST300 on iodd.shop, surprised to find that they are still going on and still have no clue of design, yet are still producing and improving new products.
Will buy whatever they come up with next. Even if they still put in the same shitty screen, or still manage to put the usb port at the wrong side of the case, or still fail to rotate the screen and keypad by 90 degrees :)
Though they have their flaws, I've been an fan and advocate of these drives for a long time now.
I got the Zalman-VE300 because it was the cheapest HDD enclosue available to me back then. It turned out an absolute gem that pleased me through about two years and countless OS installations at an IT Support gig. When the brittle jog-dial broke and I researched the thing, it turned out to have been a Zalman rebranded IODD-2531, to extend IODD's very limited market capability (korea, china, russia). So I got the successor IODD-2541 from russia. Later, I got a IODD-mini through the failed crowdfunding campaign. SSD, screen, physical enclosure were all lousy quality. About a year ago, I bought the ST300 on iodd.shop, surprised to find that they are still going on and still have no clue of design, yet are still producing and improving new products. Will buy whatever they come up with next. Even if they still put in the same shitty screen, or still manage to put the usb port at the wrong side of the case, or still fail to rotate the screen and keypad by 90 degrees :)