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external enclose 3.5" eSATA recommendations? (or not-recommendations)
I need to get external enclosures for two Hitachi 3.5" HDD. One is
320 GB, the other is 1 TB. I need both USB and eSATA (at 3.0, not 1.5!) Can anyone recommend or not-recommend specific models? The case has to be strong enough to protect the drive when carried around in a laptop bag or in luggage. A case that could hold both drives would be especially attractive to me, since I would need to carry around only 1 AC adapter. Thanks. |
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external enclose 3.5" eSATA recommendations? (or not-recommendations)
Can anyone recommend or not-recommend specific models? The case has to be strong enough to protect the drive when carried around in a laptop bag or in luggage. Most are made in China under a variety of badges. USB can be unreliable, drive freezes during backup. I finally converted motherboard SATA port to eSATA, faster and more reliable. Beware the fanless versions, the drive can get uncomfortably hot. SATA to eSATA conversion is passive, just a connector change, can't see why there has to be two different SATA connectors, but one is supposed to be screened. |
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external enclose 3.5" eSATA recommendations? (or not-recommendations)
Andrew Hamilton wrote:
I need to get external enclosures for two Hitachi 3.5" HDD. One is 320 GB, the other is 1 TB. I need both USB and eSATA (at 3.0, not 1.5!) Can anyone recommend or not-recommend specific models? The case has to be strong enough to protect the drive when carried around in a laptop bag or in luggage. You basically get no protection from enclosures, as HDDs are shock sensitive. Enclosures help to prevent scratches and the like, but for shocks most I ever had are useless. The only exception is the very cheap WD elements with the silicone endcaps. Better get a neoprene or the like bag for the HDD, that will help more than an enclosure where the drive is basically hard mounted to the outer shell. Arno A case that could hold both drives would be especially attractive to me, since I would need to carry around only 1 AC adapter. Thanks. |
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external enclose 3.5" eSATA recommendations? (or not-recommendations)
Ato_Zee wrote:
Can anyone recommend or not-recommend specific models? The case has to be strong enough to protect the drive when carried around in a laptop bag or in luggage. Most are made in China under a variety of badges. USB can be unreliable, drive freezes during backup. I finally converted motherboard SATA port to eSATA, faster and more reliable. Beware the fanless versions, the drive can get uncomfortably hot. SATA to eSATA conversion is passive, just a connector change, can't see why there has to be two different SATA connectors, but one is supposed to be screened. Personally, I believe the incompetent comitee that made the original SATA connector was not done yet and had to come up with something even worse, namely the eSATA connector. IMO, these people are a digrace to the engineering profession. As to screening, given that the data goes over TP, no screening is needed. One possibility is that they were desparately trying to make the cables more expensive and less usable by making them as stiff as possible. Arno |
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external enclose 3.5" eSATA recommendations? (or not-recommendations)
On or about Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:03:27 -0700 did Andrew Hamilton
dribble thusly: I need to get external enclosures for two Hitachi 3.5" HDD. One is 320 GB, the other is 1 TB. I need both USB and eSATA (at 3.0, not 1.5!) Why 3 instead of 1.5? There are no SATA drives capable of saturating a 1.5Gbps link, and unless you're using a port multiplier, there's no benefit to having excess capacity. In any case, there are countless cases out there that support USB and eSATA. I have one from Rosewill which looks kind of like an alien head. It has two fans (one on each side of the drive, which forces the air to wend its way past the PCB and go out the vent holes on the back), and requires dealing with only two screws to change the drive. I have a Seagate 7200.11 1.5TB drive in it right now. It transfers at around 110MB/sec when connected with eSATA, and about 24MB/sec when connected with USB. If you're looking for one that supports two drives, then browse the drive enclosure section at www.newegg.com with the appropriate filters. Most dual-drive cases want to do RAID. Make sure they say JBOD is supported, and that it's not "JBOD = spanning", but actual JBOD (drives passed through individually to the host). |
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external enclose 3.5" eSATA recommendations? (or not-recommendations)
On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:19:19 -0400, Mike Ruskai
wrote: On or about Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:03:27 -0700 did Andrew Hamilton dribble thusly: I need to get external enclosures for two Hitachi 3.5" HDD. One is 320 GB, the other is 1 TB. I need both USB and eSATA (at 3.0, not 1.5!) Why 3 instead of 1.5? There are no SATA drives capable of saturating a 1.5Gbps link, and unless you're using a port multiplier, there's no benefit to having excess capacity. I' m thinking to the future in one or two drive generations, where the SATA II speed might actually make a difference. I like to get a long useful lifetime out of PC stuff I buy. In any case, there are countless cases out there that support USB and eSATA. I have one from Rosewill which looks kind of like an alien head. It has two fans (one on each side of the drive, which forces the air to wend its way past the PCB and go out the vent holes on the back), and requires dealing with only two screws to change the drive. Sounds like a good place to start. I have a Seagate 7200.11 1.5TB drive in it right now. It transfers at around 110MB/sec when connected with eSATA, and about 24MB/sec when connected with USB. If you're looking for one that supports two drives, then browse the drive enclosure section at www.newegg.com with the appropriate filters. Most dual-drive cases want to do RAID. Make sure they say JBOD is supported, and that it's not "JBOD = spanning", but actual JBOD (drives passed through individually to the host). Ah, good point, very good point. Someone else suggested that I browse Newegg. As far as I'm concerned, I do all my purchases at newegg. There is a Frys Electronics pretty close to my house, but the prices at Frys are usually a bit higher than newegg, and also the customer service at Frys is worse than worst. "Friends don't let friends shop at Frys." Me and my friends, we all HATE, HATE Frys, for good reason. -AH |
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external enclose 3.5" eSATA recommendations? (or not-recommendations)
On 5 Sep 2009 11:56:52 GMT, Arno wrote:
Andrew Hamilton wrote: I need to get external enclosures for two Hitachi 3.5" HDD. One is 320 GB, the other is 1 TB. I need both USB and eSATA (at 3.0, not 1.5!) Can anyone recommend or not-recommend specific models? The case has to be strong enough to protect the drive when carried around in a laptop bag or in luggage. You basically get no protection from enclosures, as HDDs are shock sensitive. Enclosures help to prevent scratches and the like, but for shocks most I ever had are useless. The only exception is the very cheap WD elements with the silicone endcaps. Better get a neoprene or the like bag for the HDD, that will help more than an enclosure where the drive is basically hard mounted to the outer shell. Thanks. If that the case, then I would get only one enclosure, and just carry the other drives loose in a static-protected bubble wrap bag. -AH Arno A case that could hold both drives would be especially attractive to me, since I would need to carry around only 1 AC adapter. Thanks. |
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