Beard wrote: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.
Barry wrote: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 wrote: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.
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