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Recomend good external USB 2.0 case
I want to stick a hard drive in external USB 2.0 case.
Recommendations for case please ? |
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IMHO, Maxtor and ADS make the best external enclosure for IDE disks.
- Dave "Tod" wrote in message et... I want to stick a hard drive in external USB 2.0 case. Recommendations for case please ? |
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"Slash" wrote in message ... On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 05:40:03 GMT, "Dave Hau" scribbled: IMHO, Maxtor and ADS make the best external enclosure for IDE disks. - Dave Well, Maxtor is out if he already has the disk, Not necessarily. Office Depot sometimes has Maxtor external hard drives on clearance, at greatly reduced prices. Say, for example, if you can get a 60GB external drive cheap for say $70, then you can sell the hard disk on ebay for $50, and then get a bigger drive like 200GB and stick it into the enclosure. As I said, Maxtor enclosures are good so it's worth the extra effort. - Dave but from what I can find on the net it does look like the ADS boxes are quite nice. A little more expensive than some other enclosures, but not "botique" priced either. -Slash -- "Ebert Victorious" -The Onion |
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Just stay away from the ECS 3.5 housing. The fan is really loud.
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"Tod" wrote in message . net...
I want to stick a hard drive in external USB 2.0 case. Recommendations for case please ? I use a Bafo USB enclosure (http://www.bafo.com). I use it with a Western Digital 80Gb drive (8 meg cache). I make GHOST images of my Redhat LINUX and Windows 98 partitions with it. I've restored those partitions successfully, too. Other than the fact that installation was a bit tricky, I have had no trouble with it. Regards Tony |
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"Dave Hau" wrote: .....Office Depot sometimes has Maxtor external hard drives on clearance, at greatly reduced prices. Say, for example, if you can get a 60GB external drive cheap for say $70, then you can sell the hard disk on ebay for $50, and then get a bigger drive like 200GB and stick it into the enclosure. As I said, Maxtor enclosures are good so it's worth the extra effort. I doubt that Maxtor makes anything other than hard drives. Their controller cards, for example, are (by their own techs' explicit statement) made by Promise. If you look around on the Internet, you'll probably be able to find the same enclosure under the brand name of the real manufacturer. *TimDaniels* |
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Timothy Daniels wrote: "Dave Hau" wrote: .....Office Depot sometimes has Maxtor external hard drives on clearance, at greatly reduced prices. Say, for example, if you can get a 60GB external drive cheap for say $70, then you can sell the hard disk on ebay for $50, and then get a bigger drive like 200GB and stick it into the enclosure. As I said, Maxtor enclosures are good so it's worth the extra effort. I doubt that Maxtor makes anything other than hard drives. Their controller cards, for example, are (by their own techs' explicit statement) made by Promise. If you look around on the Internet, you'll probably be able to find the same enclosure under the brand name of the real manufacturer. That was what I thought too. But I haven't been able to find an enclosure that looks the same as the Maxtor enclosures. The closest is ADS but if you compare them side by side, they definitely look different. - Dave *TimDaniels* |
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On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 02:05:17 GMT
Dave Hau wrote: Timothy Daniels wrote: "Dave Hau" wrote: .....Office Depot sometimes has Maxtor external hard drives on clearance, at greatly reduced prices. Say, for example, if you can get a 60GB external drive cheap for say $70, then you can sell the hard disk on ebay for $50, and then get a bigger drive like 200GB and stick it into the enclosure. As I said, Maxtor enclosures are good so it's worth the extra effort. I doubt that Maxtor makes anything other than hard drives. Their controller cards, for example, are (by their own techs' explicit statement) made by Promise. If you look around on the Internet, you'll probably be able to find the same enclosure under the brand name of the real manufacturer. That was what I thought too. But I haven't been able to find an enclosure that looks the same as the Maxtor enclosures. The closest is ADS but if you compare them side by side, they definitely look different. Might be that they're making custom shells for Maxtor--if you check the Taiwanese case manufacturers' sites you'll find that they produce many trim options that you never see available at retail--the same is probably true with USB enclosures. - Dave *TimDaniels* -- -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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