USB 2.0 external drive enclosures

I've had mixed results with external USB 2.0 enclosures (for 3-1/2"
drives). They often drop out (requiring a rescan of the USB bus, or even
a reboot. Not sure why, but I suspect USB chip implementation or maybe
power supply..

Are there any reasonably priced enclosures that work well?
How are the 'Metal Gear' enclosures? Any others?

Thanks

_BNC wrote:
I've had mixed results with external USB 2.0 enclosures (for 3-1/2"
drives). They often drop out (requiring a rescan of the USB bus, or
even a reboot. Not sure why, but I suspect USB chip implementation
or maybe power supply..

Are there any reasonably priced enclosures that work well?
How are the 'Metal Gear' enclosures? Any others?

Thanks

Your enclosure does have an external power supply? I do not believe
that USB will supply anything close to enough power for a desktop drive.
It will work with a laptop drive enclosure.

Q

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 06:05:17 -0500, _BNC wrote:

I've had mixed results with external USB 2.0 enclosures (for 3-1/2"
drives). They often drop out (requiring a rescan of the USB bus, or even
a reboot. Not sure why, but I suspect USB chip implementation or maybe
power supply..

Are there any reasonably priced enclosures that work well?
How are the 'Metal Gear' enclosures? Any others?

Thanks
For a long period I've been using a firewire pci card into which I
have several firewire hard drives attached. I bought the Oxford
enclosures seperatly and installed some drives I had in them. Good
solid operation. I don't run them for long periods as they are mainly
used for storage.