ORICO External Hard Drive Case for 3.5 Inch HDD/SSD 5 Packs Portable Hard Drive Carrying Protective Storage Box Anti-Static and Shockproof -PHX5S

Because these are made to fit 3.5" drives very snugly, drives inside of antistatic bags will not fit (the case can close around it, but it'll be very tight). This means that if you are moving drives from other storage or want to store new drives, you will probably want to remove any other packaging.The EVA lining is supposedly made to be ESD safe, but that obviously doesn't protect the drive while someone is handling it outside of the case. Antistatic bags for HDDs are already pretty overkill anyway, so it's really not that big of a deal.

Why did you pick this product vs others?:I like the form factor. Have about 20 of these now. May be time to let my older HDDs go

They provide some good, padded support, just wish the hinge was a metal rod support instead of plastic. The hinge will be the single point of failure, in my opinion.

Keep them dust free

Nice fit for the 3.5 inch drives for storing on a shelf. I would like to give a 4.5 to 4.8 dinging for the simple fact that the nubs on the plastic don't quit line up quickly to prevent sliding off each other. My opinion is that a little better design and they would stack quickly without feeling for the sweet spot. I worry that if I don't get it lined up perfectly, it takes some times to get it right, the top case will will slide off the tower. Probably won't but my OCD says line it up OR ELSE.

Exactly as advertised. I love these cases

Excellent protection, ease of use and great for storage of hard drives.

I picked up the grey 5 pack of foam padded cases. My goal with these are storage of backup drives in a media rated fire proof safe. I have had them for less than a day at the time of this writing, so this is more first impressions.What I am finding right off the bat is while these are a little big for bare drives, I actually feel a little more comfortable using the static bag that came with the drives anyway and then sticking the whole deal in these cases. This way you get anti-static protection for sure with the anti-static bag, a foamy box layer around that which interlocks with the neighboring cases, then I have the fire proof safe around that. The anti-static bag that the hard drives came in are actually perfect for these cases, filling in the buffer space for the most part and making for a snug fit so the drives cannot move around too easily in these boxes. Another way I have thought of this is if the place burns down, there is a lot material with boxes in boxes and bags and such to keep the drives under the thermal limits for as long as possible. While I would not consider water proof, you can probably spill your coffee on these without damaging the drives.Something to consider about mechanical hard drives is they are often rated to take hundreds of G's while at rest, but say you drop a bare drive onto concrete, even just tipping over, and the shock the drive receives from that abrupt stop will be over whatever this rating is for a very brief moment in time, but that is all it takes to ruin a hard drive. So having a plastic box with just a little bit of fairly stiff foam is all you need to protect your hard drive from a lot as it can smooth a fall from a 1,000+G very brief, but fatal spike, to well under say a 400G acceleration over enough time to keep it from spiking over the damaging force limit.It would have been nice if these had a metal hing like you see in little tool boxes, but instead it is just a thin piece of flexing plastic. My goal with these are to periodically swap them out with the next backup array, so not too frequent on the opening and closing of them. Hopefully the plastic hinges will last a little while.