ioddST400 Variations (NO SSD)

Until I learned about this product on a YouTube video I was using Ventoy. The problem with Ventoy is that if you don't watch your OS installation you can sometimes overwrite the flash drive. I accidentally did that twice and lost about 20 ISO files. I got tired of re-downloading all of them again. So this product is perfect because it allows you to have the same functionality of multiple ISO files available to boot from but you have the ability to lock the drive from accidental overwrites. It would be nice if the user interface was a little more customizable or had more options. It's a full color display but could be so much more user friendly if it actually incorporated icons and logos and things like that. But just rating the product as it is and using it for a few months I can honestly say it's about as perfect as you could ask for as far as ease of use and reliability. I basically always keep the drive as read only unless I'm copying or deleting new ISO files so that I prevent accidental overwrites.

This enclosure is great. It keeps your information secured until you provide the key and provides a great peace of mind for protecting your data in the event that you lose your device. The device comes with USB C which is a welcomed addition compared to some of their other product offerings.The enclosure is a good value if you are looking to have an added peace of mind if you ever lose your drive. While it won't prevent someone else from being able to use your drive, It will prevent them from being able to access what you lost.Drive powers up and is readily available for pin entry in less than 5 seconds from when the device is powered up. I do find that most computers will post and begin booting before you even have the change to unlock the drive and mount the ISO. Also, some computers interrupt USB power during a soft reset which can sometimes make it complicated to get your ISO to mount. There is a function that keeps the password cashed for two minutes which aims to alleviate this but I found that entering bios or pressing the pause print screen/scroll lock on the keyboard sometimes will pause the power on self test. This gives me time to enter my pin and mount my ISO. Or likewise, i'll enter the bios setup utility (mount my ISO) and immediately exit it without saving changes and my device will be ready to boot from.Something to keep in mind but all in all, a very useful enclosure and it does make safeguarding my files convenient.

This device is very cool. It can act as a regular hard drive with partitions, various formats, etc. It can simulate a CD/DVD drive from an ISO file. It can simulate a flash drive from a VHD file. And, it can do combinations of all those things at the same time. For that, it is a very cool device and I'm happy with it. I'm not using encryption, so no comments about that.The things I don't like, but can tolerate...* The buttons are solid black and really hard to see the numbers/symbols on them.* The device "feels" a tad cheap - kind of a spongy plastic.* The UI is not intuitive to me at all. But, it is fairly basic and you'll eventually get the hang of it.* The on-device help and all the manuals are full of broken English and lack all sorts of details. It took me a while to realize you do most tasks from your OS, such as the initial format of the drive, creating flash VHDs, etc.* The device cannot create a VHD for you, so every time you want to create a 'fake' flash drive, you need to run a Windows app to create a VHD file, store it on the device's main hard drive, and then mount it from the device's LCD interface. It would be cool if the device could just generate and mount a blank VHD on the fly.* Only fixed size VHDs are supported, which potentially wastes a lot of space. You have to guess the max size flash drive to create for an image, and then live that decision regardless of how much data is copied to the flash drive. Maybe there are 3rd party tools that can shrink a VHD. What would be cool is if the device could support dynamic VHDs that grow as data is added to them.

This device works great.So far I've installed windows 11 and Armbianx86, each OS on its own .vhd.Windows 11 vhd booted fine first try. Initially I couldn't get Armbianx86 to boot. Turns out I had to disable secure boot even though it was a UEFI version of Armbianx86.I have two partitions on the drive. Each partition is selectable and can boot from vhd or iso.Lots of possibilities with this device.As others have said, the documentation is TERRIBLE! I had to play around with setting the USB/internal drive settings many times to get what they do. The "mode" CD, Dual or Hard Drive are apparently set by file name. Go to the IODD download site and download the vhd and util tools stuff and read through it and try to figure out what is relevant.I created vhd using Windows disk manager and IODD vhd tool. Creating a vhd in Windows takes a while. The IODD tool creates a vhd almost instantly. Both work fine.This is a fun and useful device. $90 seems a bit overpriced.

It's very amazing item with quality and helpful tools for any IT persons