+1 for Icydocks, I use the 2.5 inch drive enclosures, I love the
screwless design....
On Jan 11, 2009, at 5:05 PM, maccrawj wrote:
Hey Bino-
When I travel, I take a Icydock 3.5" enclosure & a 400GB HDD with me
since portable not on-the-go storage is what I need & 3.5 HDD's are
a lot cheaper/GB than 2.5's. :)
I've seen notebook/USB powered IDE or SATA 2.5" Vantec's (and
generics) for < $30 on ebay & Newegg, trick is to watch what bridge
chipset is under the hood so caveat emptor! If you don't need USB
powered, look into Icydock 3.5" enclosures.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=vantec+2.5
Icydock makes a neat eSATA dock that fits both 2.5" & 3.5" HDD but
it's a cradle not an enclosure & @$50 is priced way to high vs. a
Rosewill USB to IDE/SATA "dongle". Picked up the Rosewill for
service calls after looking at a dozen generically similar models.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817198029
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812119244
Reason I'm hot on the Icydock is they make portable, external, and
internal models with interchangeable trays. Doesn't hurt the in
addition to being well built, sturdy, the eSATA/USB2.0 MB559
external is the coolest running fanless enclosures I've used (<40C
under load) despite housing a Seagate 7200.10. Picked it up on a
deal that came with a free spare tray (MSRP $25) for $60 (currently
$39.99 after $20 MIR, no spare tray). Really wanted to pick up the
"3to5" internal version this Xmas for my desktop PC so I can swap
drives with the external enclosure but could not justify the $$$.
This is Icydock's I'm talking about:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817198011
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994028
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817198028
Sorry to be so drawn out...
Bino Gopal wrote:
Thanks Jim (it is Jim, IIRC?). I'll have to look at those and see
what
people say...
So no one else here travels and needs the smaller enclosures for
portable
HDs?! Fwiw, I have two Vantec 3.5" enclosures that do USB 2.0 and
eSATA,
and they've been pretty great; nice shiny metal cases (Blue and
Black) and
~$33 each from Newegg; from a friend's recommendation and I've been
happy
with them for a while now...
But searching for 2.5" ones was producing little results (and
weirdly some
listings for the Rocketfish for $3; yeah, the one I paid $55 for!),
so
that's why I was curious if anyone here had any they'd personally
recommend;
if not, no worries, and thanks guys!
BINO
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Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 6:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [H] USB 2.0 2.5" HD enclosures?
WB Bino!
I'm partial to Icydock these days but have not tried any of their
2.5"
stuff.
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