2.5 in SATA to USB HD enclosure

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2.5 in SATA to USB HD enclosure

Postby Beard » Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:21 pm

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.
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Postby streaker69 » Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:35 pm

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.


I saw Costco had 1Tb external drives for $279.
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Postby Barry » Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:47 pm

Stay away from the Seagate free agent pros, took me forever to recover my wife's iTunes library off one.
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Postby Beard » Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:15 pm

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.
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Postby Barry » Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:39 am

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...
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Postby The Others » Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:00 am

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...


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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Postby Scruge » Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:06 am

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.
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Postby Thorn » Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:29 am

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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Postby Beard » Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:43 pm

Scruge wrote: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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