On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, William Sutton wrote:
A friend of mine is looking for some external hard disk
units (nothing as big as a snap server or nas, just a disk
in an external enclosure). What brands/models do you
trust & reccommend?
This comes up a couple of times a year here.
I use the ME-720U2F firewire/usb enclosure, which I got
through Dealsonic for about $40 (I have two and they take
disks upto 400GBytes). The two halves of the unit snap
together. With some judicious screwdriver-fu and remembering
how they snap together, you can non-destructively separate
the two halves to change disks (like when you need a bigger
one). I leave one open to install files on a 2.5" disk for
laptops (you'll need a 3.5" to 2.5" IDE adapter as well).
Be aware that you can't use smartmontools through a USB link
(it doesn't support the neccessary scsi commands).
Other people here have said that they're happy with an
enclosure from Intrex.
Joe
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