arvenyon

The Icy Box and StarTech ones are just straight external RAID encs, sometimes they aren't that well priced though but that one you're looking at is like wayy cheap. Also it's OEM/ODM so you can get it with a different brand on the box.
 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LFSPQLS/ref=sxbs_sxwds-stppvp_1?pf_rd_p=82218735-2b20-4c14-b8b7-9b4d6b044350&pd_rd_wg=Ry481&pf_rd_r=CW0Q3TPP34EVQ9ZGW3TD&pd_rd_i=B01LFSPQLS&pd_rd_w=gsHaQ&pd_rd_r=cec02b35-7b1c-4fcc-abc4-900127d3ac5a&ie=UTF8&qid=1550224089&sr=1
 
Equiv from StarTech:
https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-External-Dual-Drive-Enclosure/dp/B07116PMPD/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1550224058&sr=8-5&keywords=StarTech+RAID
https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-eSATA-Drive-External-Enclosure/dp/B00PY3QTTO/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&qid=1550224089&sr=8-23&keywords=StarTech+RAID

Sure, there are a few well known manufacturers.. like QNAP, Synology .. the list goes on... which provide quite cheap NAS Systems. But thats the point... i dont need the whole feature-package coming with a nas station... I dont need Hyper Backup, Virtualization Station, separate Data management... thats just too much, and over the top for my scope.

Cool, lot of people get suckered in by RAID so it's like the default do you actually want/need it quiz ?. Single larger volumes does make it slightly nicer to use.
 
I know some of the Icy Box stuff is fine, I've never seen one with those dip switches on the back though. Orico, Drobo and StarTech are others I know of that make these external RAID enclosures of PCs. QNAP also has some cheaper units with USB and Thunderbolt connectivity, same for Synology.

Connection speed won't matter, nothing you can put in there can really saturate the USB 3.0 interface. Also it's 5 Gbps not 5 GB/s (8 times the difference).
 
RAID itself is more what is being oversold, what MSI is saying is technically true but is limited to only certain use cases but for everything else it'll actually be slower. RAID introduces (small for RAID0, but matters for NVMe) overhead so loading the OS, touching small files like loading a game etc will be slower. Reading and writing a 10GB file will be faster but that really is about it.
 
Basically you're going to net zero performance increase while introducing a data resiliency weakness, are you happy to do that? If you think RAID0 will fit what you want then sure go ahead, just make sure you do those backups. Seems like an unnecessary spend of money though, save it for the next generation of CPUs, GPUs or SSDs.

Sry, wrote that wrong... 5Gbit/s sure...
 
I am aware, that I won't get the increase that msi promises, It's all about the experience. Also it's not meant for gaming in first place.
 
Thanks for your reply!