2.5 in SATA to USB HD enclosure

Beard · 04-04-2008

I'm looking for recommendations for an enclosure to use a high capacity SATA HD, maybe 250G, as a portable backup drive. I found a plastic one online so far. I already have 2 of the Thermaltake IDE enclosures [per Thorn's recommendation] that I use when attempting to save data off of crashed drives. I've only found 16oG IDE drives, which I may have to use instead of SATA, since that seems to be max cap for 2.5in IDE presently.

streaker69 · 04-04-2008

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Originally Posted by Beard

I'm looking for recommendations for an enclosure to use a high capacity SATA HD, maybe 250G, as a portable backup drive. I found a plastic one online so far. I already have 2 of the Thermaltake IDE enclosures [per Thorn's recommendation] that I use when attempting to save data off of crashed drives. I've only found 16oG IDE drives, which I may have to use instead of SATA, since that seems to be max cap for 2.5in IDE presently.

I saw Costco had 1Tb external drives for $279.

Barry · 04-04-2008

Stay away from the Seagate free agent pros, took me forever to recover my wife's iTunes library off one.

Beard · 04-04-2008

Both of those are large, desktop sizes. The WD MY Passbook is more in line to what I'm interested in, without their software. The Seagate Momentus was one of the drives I was looking at.

Barry · 04-05-2008

I picked up a cheap < $10.00 enclosure at micro center a week ago. I forget who makes it though. USB2 to pata laptop drive. So far it's worked without a hitch. Though with those kind of things you usually get what you pay for...

The Others · 04-05-2008

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Originally Posted by Barry

I picked up a cheap < $10.00 enclosure at micro center a week ago. I forget who makes it though. USB2 to pata laptop drive. So far it's worked without a hitch. Though with those kind of things you usually get what you pay for...

I bought one of these cheapo enclosures once; it got upset once and destroyed the disk's Master File Table. A fun process of recovery soon followed!

So yeah, my advice is buy a decent branded one.

Scruge · 04-05-2008

I've had good luck with this model, plus local dealer runs them on sale for <$10.

Here's another I've had good luck with.

Thorn · 04-05-2008

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Originally Posted by The Others

I bought one of these cheapo enclosures once; it got upset once and destroyed the disk's Master File Table. A fun process of recovery soon followed!

So yeah, my advice is buy a decent branded one.

Hey! Where have you been? It's good to know you're still alive and kicking.

Beard · 04-05-2008

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Originally Posted by Scruge

I've had good luck with this model, plus local dealer runs them on sale for <$10.

Here's another I've had good luck with.

The coolmax looks like the one I'll be getting, the other is for ide hd's. Thanks.

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Beard Talking softly Join Date: May 2005 Location: Ozark mountains, Arkansas Posts: 331	2.5 in SATA to USB HD enclosure I'm looking for recommendations for an enclosure to use a high capacity SATA HD, maybe 250G, as a portable backup drive. I found a plastic one online so far. I already have 2 of the Thermaltake IDE enclosures [per Thorn's recommendation] that I use when attempting to save data off of crashed drives. I've only found 16oG IDE drives, which I may have to use instead of SATA, since that seems to be max cap for 2.5in IDE presently. __________________ Beard "We hold these truths to be self evident".... Religous: "Thou shalt not steal." Amish: "You shall burn in hell for theft of wifi." {courtesy streaker69} Secular: What's on the books. {courtesy beakmyn} Redneck; "Thievin' bastard, [blam, blam]" Solutions for the most common problems or questions of new members are here, here, and here .

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Barry Managing the iTards. Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 5,159	Stay away from the Seagate free agent pros, took me forever to recover my wife's iTunes library off one. __________________ Penny's giving it up. She's giving it up hard. Cause she's with Captain Hammer, and these, are not the hammer...... The hammer is my penis. --- Captain Hammer, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.

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Beard Talking softly Join Date: May 2005 Location: Ozark mountains, Arkansas Posts: 331	Both of those are large, desktop sizes. The WD MY Passbook is more in line to what I'm interested in, without their software. The Seagate Momentus was one of the drives I was looking at. __________________ Beard "We hold these truths to be self evident".... Religous: "Thou shalt not steal." Amish: "You shall burn in hell for theft of wifi." {courtesy streaker69} Secular: What's on the books. {courtesy beakmyn} Redneck; "Thievin' bastard, [blam, blam]" Solutions for the most common problems or questions of new members are here, here, and here . Last edited by Beard : 04-04-2008 at 09:35 PM.

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Barry Managing the iTards. Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 5,159	I picked up a cheap < $10.00 enclosure at micro center a week ago. I forget who makes it though. USB2 to pata laptop drive. So far it's worked without a hitch. Though with those kind of things you usually get what you pay for... __________________ Penny's giving it up. She's giving it up hard. Cause she's with Captain Hammer, and these, are not the hammer...... The hammer is my penis. --- Captain Hammer, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.

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Scruge Nyuk nyuk! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: TX Posts: 1,355	I've had good luck with this model, plus local dealer runs them on sale for <$10. Here's another I've had good luck with. __________________ KNSGEM A wifi boundary plotter for Google Earth Click Me

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