Ext 3.5" Sngl Bay ESATA+USB2.0

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5.25" SATA I/II Aluminum External Mobile Rack Mirror Black - Simple, elegantly designed external storage drive rack with removable drive tray and hot swap capability, exchanging drives is now virtually hassle free! External 3.5" single bay eSATA+USB2.0 C

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Reviewed on 2008-06-14 Well built, but expensive This is an external USB or eSATA drive enclosure. What sets it apart from other enclosures is the fact that the drive sled is easily removable. Additional sleds are available, but costs more than what other manufacturers charge for a whole enclosure. The enclosure is very well built and works flawlessly. The mirror black finish is a magnet for fingerprints. Little feet pop out to help stabilize the enclosure when used vertically. The enclosure has an external power supply, and does not have any active cooling (read : no fan). Newer models has a pretty ingenious solution : there is a bracket included, that you screw into an expansion slot, and it provides both power and an eSATA port. It attaches to a regular molex connector (the same type used to power IDE hard drives) and a SATA header on the motherboard or expansion card. The power connector looks like a S-Video cable. This is a very elegant solution, because you won't need a power brick, and the drive is always powered off when the computer is not on. As long as you don't need the drive to be running when the computer is in sleep mode, this is a perfect solution. Using eSATA requires you to enable AHCI in BIOS if you want to swap disks without powering down. So far I've used only USB. When you use Safely Remove Hardware to dismount the drive, the hard disk stops spinning. I like that! In the vertical orientation, the drives do not slide in as smoothly as I hope. It's not too difficult, but it doesn't give me the industrial feel of the server class machines I use at work. The aluminum arm feels a little flimsy, but I've used it for almost a year now, swapping drives often, without any issues. For anyone interested, according to Windows device manager and google, the chip used in the enclosure is the Sunplus SPIF215a (VID=04FC, PID=0C15). Why 4 stars? Well, mainly the price. If you don't mind the price, this is a great looking and great performing enclosure.

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