<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>If you're buying new disk, then external disk is not a bad option. It's even cheaper than internal ones.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>As for portable enclosure, Vantec. Docking station, Thermaltake.<br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Off topic. One thing I noticed that external USB disk uses 4k block. But, when I recently broke open a Hitachi external disk (I needed the bare disk), it's the same as internal disk sold separately with 512b sector. In fact, it's exactly the model that I bought almost a year ago, except for newer firmware which accounts for being 50% faster. This may create problems when you take the disk out and connect it directly to SATA.<br></span></div><div><span>--
<br></span></div><div><span>William<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Mike Kallies <mike.kallies-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, January 9, 2012 2:17:49 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [TLUG]: Reliable HDD SATA Enclosures/Adapters<br> </font> <br>On 09/01/2012 1:52 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:<br>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 03:22:39PM -0500, Digimer wrote:<br>>> I've used many Vantec Nexstar3 (and variants) for years
with good success.<br>>><br>>> <a href="http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/index/21" target="_blank">http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/index/21</a><br>>><br>>> Most retailers carry Vantec carriers.<br>> <br>> That's what I always use too. Never a problem.<br>> <br><br>This seems to be unanimous.<br><br>Thanks for all the input. :-)<br><br>-Mike<br>--<br>The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: <a href="http://gtalug.org/" target="_blank">http://gtalug.org/</a><br>TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns<br>How to UNSUBSCRIBE: <a href="http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists" target="_blank">http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>