Hard Drive Enclosures: Anyone using these?

Jagi

True Fist of the North Star
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was thinking about ordering an extra external drive.

but was thinking with access to multiple 3.5 inch hard drives from work. i could just get one of those enclosures where you just slap on the drive with USB connection. then just keep a drive handy for back ups, one drive for something else etc etc etc..

anyone using one of these?

havent seen any by name brand companies and all range from $23 to over $100.
 
I Have A 3.5
I Love It.
Its Cool Because If You Fill It
Just Get Another And You Never Have To Delete Shit.
 
yeah i'm looking for a N.A.S. too i want to attach it to my xbox 360 through my network so i can store all my movies and tv shows on that rather than my computer.

Any suggestions????
 
do you have any recommendations on brands and price?

was looking at this one

this one is $38.99 and works with 2.5 and 3.5 inch, external power
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153066

I REALLY DONT THINK IT MATTERS MUCH
MOST ARE PRETTY STRAIGHT FORWARD
WTHOUT ANY UNNECESSARY PERIPHERALS.

ALL IT DOES IS ALLOW YOU TO SET THE SHIT ON SLAVE AND PLUG IT IN
LIKE ANY OTHER EXTERNAL H/D.
IM CHEAP WHEN IT COMES TO SHIT LIKE THIS
SO THE CHEAPER THE BETTER:dunno:
 
look on newegg for a NAS enclosure, then buy seagate drives for it and you're set, seagates have the best warranty in the business I use them exclusively I would always reccomend having one. Use it for backups, write you a simple batch file with robocopy to back up your critical stuff over to the external (pics, docs etc) bottom line is this if its "critical" data treat it that way.
 
look on newegg for a NAS enclosure, then buy seagate drives for it and you're set, seagates have the best warranty in the business I use them exclusively I would always reccomend having one. Use it for backups, write you a simple batch file with robocopy to back up your critical stuff over to the external (pics, docs etc) bottom line is this if its "critical" data treat it that way.

TELL ME ABOUT IT !:(
 
Good thread.

I was told that one of these can be used to recover and save info from a hard drive that came out of a faulty pc to another comp via usb ports.

Is there any truth to that?
 
Good thread.

I was told that one of these can be used to recover and save info from a hard drive that came out of a faulty pc to another comp zia usb ports.

Is there any truth to that?

yep, BUT the hard drive on the fauty pc still has to be "intact" meaning if the hard drive on the first pc is dead and usb drive wont revive it. but there are a few tools out there that will boot from cd and let you browse the hard drive AND save to flash/usb drive
 
yep, BUT the hard drive on the fauty pc still has to be "intact" meaning if the hard drive on the first pc is dead and usb drive wont revive it. but there are a few tools out there that will boot from cd and let you browse the hard drive AND save to flash/usb drive

Yea, the hd is still good, but the pc is missing files in the windows 32 folder and won't start up.

I tried MaxBlast to save the hd info onto an external, but once the program starts transferring the files, the pc reboots.

Can you recommend any other boot from disc programs?

t.i.a.
 
ultimate boot cd, is a good tool I normally pull the hard drive put it in the enclosure and back up to my main support pc so TBH I dont use the boot from cd option that often but i did read that ubcd <<<common name can do it, they say it can scan your drive with adaware type programs too which is even better than safe mode so check that one out.
 
ultimate boot cd, is a good tool I normally pull the hard drive put it in the enclosure and back up to my main support pc so TBH I dont use the boot from cd option that often but i did read that ubcd <<<common name can do it, they say it can scan your drive with adaware type programs too which is even better than safe mode so check that one out.

thanx
 
thanks for all the info. i think i'll go for the one in the link i posted..

i like that it has 2.5 and 3.5 inch support (SATA only)
 
was thinking about ordering an extra external drive.

but was thinking with access to multiple 3.5 inch hard drives from work. i could just get one of those enclosures where you just slap on the drive with USB connection. then just keep a drive handy for back ups, one drive for something else etc etc etc..

anyone using one of these?

havent seen any by name brand companies and all range from $23 to over $100.

great minds think alike

i just heard of this product today while surfing for hd enclosures

went ahead and ordered one today from tigerdirect...the one in the post above is usb only...going with the e-sata/usb combo that just came out

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3829117&CatId=2785

along with 4 1TB seagates...all should arrive to cali by friday...get the party started :dance:
 
While still deciding on what to buy i came across this. out of the price range i was thinking about, but its sexy...




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QNAP TS-409 Pro Turbo NAS


NAS boxes are becoming an increasingly popular commodity in people's homes - whether it be for creating redundancy of your data (loosely called "backing up"), having a central storage of music, movies and media, for business and SOHO needs with a few dozen users, or, in this case all of the above and a whole load more. The TS-409 Turbo is a bit like the "ultimate NAS" without the asking price when you read its feature list below - guaranteed it'll have something you need or have thought about before and shifting the onus of responsibility from your power hungry main PC or server to independent, low power box might certainly tempt some of you.






Feature List:

* Marvell 5281 500MHz SoC
* 256MB DDR2 DIMM
* Four 3.5" SATA I/II HDD up to 4TB in size
* One RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet socket
* Three USB 2.0 ports with support for USB printers, disk, digital camera, pen drive, card reader, USB hub, and USB UPS etc
* LED indicators for Status, USB, LAN, HDD 1, HDD 2, HDD 3, HDD 4
* File server
* FTP server
* Backup server
* Encrypted Remote Replication
* Web Server with Built-in phpMyAdmin
* MySQL Server
* Printer Server
* UPnP Media Server with DLNA and built-in TwonkyMedia Server
* iTunes Server
* Download Station - including bit-torrent (with DHT support) and eDonkey networks, FTP and HTTP downloads
* S.M.A.R.T & Advanced HDD Health Scanning (HHS)
* Comprehensive Event Log System
* Sharing files across Windows, Mac and Linux (supported file systems include EXT3 for internal and external drives and FAT32, NTFS for external drives)
* Secure data storage, access, and sharing
* Share Folder Management
* One touch USB auto copy
* Web File Manager
* Network Recycle Bin
* Built-in DDNS support




The advanced RAID Management with hot-swap design includes:

* RAID 0, 1, 5, 5+ Spare, 6, JBOD, Multiple RAID, RAID Migration and RAID Expansion
* SMART disk checking and bad block scan
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The Pro version adds Microsoft Active Directory support for Businesses and NFS support for Linux clients; this we'd have thought, of all features, NFS support should be "core" in the first place. As you'd have guessed from the name the 409 is a four disk NAS box that offers a multitude of disk management options - either a single, large space (JBOD) or a variety of RAID versions where we have previously explained in detail right here.

It's sort of surprising to see the typically enterprise level RAID 6 come to this type of device, but it's still only the tip of the iceberg when we consider more inventive features like RAID migration and expansion. Both are clever tricks to allow for future-proofing and can be done on the fly while the machine is running - there's no downtime involved. Well, that's not strictly true - you still have to wait for the NAS box to readjust its underwear before it gives the thumbs up, and in this case we found that it can take some time.

By adding extra disks the migration feature increases the RAID level from 1 to 5 to 6 or spare etc, depending on your settings, and the expansion feature allows the disks to be replaced with higher capacity ones (one at a time) in order to increase the space available should you need it. It's very similar to Netgears X-RAID feature on its ReadyNAS NV+ products and I'm thoroughly assured by the Editor of TrustedReviews that it's an oh-so-awesome feature.

Having just suffered the wrath of my Thecus N2100 not allowing RAID (or JBOD in my case) expansion by simply adding another disk, I can completely sympathise that of all, these are key features. Without them you're left to wipe the array and start again which goes against the whole reason why many people buy separate storage devices in the first place!




In the box there's the power adapter, CAT5 cable, brief instruction manual and information disk, but very little else as everything is all pre-fitted to the TS-409 anyway.
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