For important systems, I think a USB hard drive will be a better
choice than an empty enclosure.
They are also often cheaper than a new empty enclosure and a new hard
drive.
Indeed, buying a brand-name external USB2/3 hard drive, which is
invariably implemented as a SATA drive in an
I have a number of 2.5 SATA drives, that I've used for I don't know how
long.
I put one in a startech.com external hard drive encosure model sat2510u2E.
I wrote a little cron stimulated script to write, and check for file
existence, and almost immediately got failures. I was using a USB hub
