Reliable HDD SATA Enclosures/Adapters

[William Park]

If you're buying new disk, then external disk is not a bad option.  It's even cheaper than internal ones.

As for portable enclosure, Vantec.  Docking station, Thermaltake.


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.

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William




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> From: Mike Kallies <mike.kallies-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org 
>Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 2:17:49 PM
>Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Reliable HDD SATA Enclosures/Adapters
> 
>On 09/01/2012 1:52 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 03:22:39PM -0500, Digimer wrote:
>>> I've used many Vantec Nexstar3 (and variants) for years with good success.
>>>
>>> http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/index/21
>>>
>>> Most retailers carry Vantec carriers.
>> 
>> That's what I always use too.  Never a problem.
>> 
>
>This seems to be unanimous.
>
>Thanks for all the input.   :-)
>
>-Mike
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