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Antec MX-1 USB 2.0

$64.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
so i initially wished to purchase an external hard drive as opposed to an enclosure/internal hd but since i am planning on building a new desktop soon it made more sense to go with the latter.
from www.amazon.com
i am using it to house my external tivo 1t drive.
from esasaki, www.shopping.com
pros: fan-cooled, esata-capable, all cables included, attractive styling, noise dampening absorbers, solid construction, lightweight, power switch cons: practically impossible to remove fan/led
from www.amazon.com
i purchased this because it was suggested on the internet by other users for adding an external drive for increasing dvr hard drive space.
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i'd get it again and i'd recommend it to someone looking for an external case.

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2 RECOMMENDED by 17 people for EXTERNAL

Antec MX-100 DHANTECMX100 Serial ATA

$39.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
it also saves you money over buying an external hard drive, by converting your existing extra hard drives to external.
from www.amazon.com
this was the very first external hard drive i have ever put together and other than not coming with the right sized screw driver to put it together i have no complaints.
from www.amazon.com
i usually leave my external drives on all the time, but i'm afraid if i do so with this one it'll burst into flames, some air vents would have been nice.
from ruel24, www.newegg.com
one external drive just stop even powering on completely.
from www.amazon.com
i'm scared to leave this on overnight when i'm backing up my pc to the external hard drive.

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3 RECOMMENDED by 6 people for EXTERNAL

Vantec NST-360SU-BK USB 2.0 External

$45.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i purchased this case and a very quiet 1tb seagate drive & couldn't be happier, it is nice looking and combined with the hdd, provides a fairly pleasing looking external storage solution that can be
from www.amazon.com
in the past i've used numerous external hard drives, so when i had an extra sata drive, the idea of sticking it into an external case as a swappable drive seemed sensible.
from www.amazon.com
if all you need is to turn a sata hard drive into an external usb 2.0, then i'd rather go with this one (i own both):
from www.amazon.com
it's an external case for a sata disk.
from www.amazon.com
quiet, it's been running about a week seems cooler than usb externals i used.

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4 RECOMMENDED by 6 people for EXTERNAL

Macally G-S350SUA 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure Serial ATA

$52.00 Est. at Amazon

from silverstreak9, www.shopping.com
review: overviewif you want a high-quality, high-performance external hard drive, you should consider this enclosure.?
from www.amazon.com
ok, so it's a copy of apple's macpro form factor, but macally did a great job of making an easy-to-assemble external enclosure.
from www.amazon.com
i bought this external case for my mac-mini to use and share a 1tb hard drive with the rest of my macs for time machine over the network.
from www.amazon.com
i would recommend this to anyone who wants a mac pro looking external enclosure.
from www.amazon.com
i have owned probably 20 different types of external hard drive cases and this one is by far the best.

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5 RECOMMENDED by 4 people for EXTERNAL

Coolmax 15333 Serial ATA

$17.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
extra sata drive plus this $17 enclosure equals portable external 80gb drive.
from www.amazon.com
this is an external hard drive enclosure.
from www.amazon.com
if you want an affordable sata external enclosure...this is it.
from www.amazon.com
i needed an external hard drive enclosure to us as a dvr for my dish network receiver.

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Vantec NexStar 3 NST-360U2-BK USB 2.0 External

$45.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
if you're in dire need of an external enclosure, or are just looking to expand your storage capability, then i would highly recommend this product.
from www.amazon.com
i use the external hard drive at work to keep a backup of my data and store large files that will not fit on my computers smaller and much fuller drive.
from tanalasta, www.shopping.com
pros: attractive, quiet external usb 2.0 hdd casing.
from www.amazon.com
i had a 80 gig hd to put into the case, and sometimes they have 160 gig external hd's for like 50-60 bucks...
from www.amazon.com
connected to dish usb, i am able to move instructional (diy etc) videos and movies from the dvr to the external hard drives, woodworking on one (black), food network (blue) on another, sci-fi (red)

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Vantec NST-285S2-BK NexStar SX 2.5" External Hard Drive Enclosure

$28.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
it has an external on/off switch so you won't have to unplug the usb cable when you don't want it useing power from your laptop/notebook battery.
from www.amazon.com
this vantec external hard drive enclosure is very simple to use, its tool less design allows you to swap hard drives in seconds, and makes the enclosure perfect for pulling data off of clients laptop
from www.amazon.com
but absolutely the best external enclosure i have used.

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Macally PHR-250CC FireWire IEEE 1394a

$42.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
it is the perfect external hard drive enclosure.
from www.amazon.com
have used the unit as a usb 2.0 external drive, have not tried the fw400 interface as yet.
from psbanerjee, www.shopping.com
pros: --solid construction --worked with no fuss --easy to install disk cons: --perhaps an external non-bus power cable would have been nice.
from km21, www.shopping.com
this is what all external enclosures ...
from www.amazon.com
the western digital external drive enclosure has rubber all around the drive for protection and.

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Apricorn EZ-UP-UNIVERSAL Parallel

$39.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
although i haven't tested it yet, i think the software will allow you to use any usb externally enclosed drive, so you could clone a 3.5" as well.
from www.amazon.com
now i have another 320 gb hard drive in the blue box that comes in the kit and use it as an external hard drive.
from lt.dell.com
it cloned my 40gb in about an hour, much quicker than any of my external hard-drives.
from lt.dell.com
tech support then tried to sell me an external adapter, but i'd already wasted enough money on this product so i bought another vendor's usb external hard drive case, which was flimsy but lasted long
from lt.dell.com
i received an upgraded version of the ez software and a newer style external case.

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Acomdata SMBXXXU2E-Red IDE

$39.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
having said that, it should do fine for most people who just want an enclosure for converting an internal drive to an external drive.
from www.amazon.com
i bought this external hard drive enclosure in frys electronics.
from www.amazon.com
unlike some other external enclosures i tried, this one works.
from www.amazon.com
windows xp and windows vista readily recognized the assembled external hard drives.

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Acomdata SMBXXXU2E-BLK IDE

$39.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
having said that, it should do fine for most people who just want an enclosure for converting an internal drive to an external drive.
from www.amazon.com
i bought this external hard drive enclosure in frys electronics.
from www.amazon.com
unlike some other external enclosures i tried, this one works.
from www.amazon.com
windows xp and windows vista readily recognized the assembled external hard drives.

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Acomdata SMBXXXU2E-BLU Samba Usb Enclosure Kit Blue IDE

Acomdata SMBXXXU2E-BLU Samba Usb Enclosure Kit Blue (Acomdata SMBXXXU2EBlu) IDE / EIDE, Serial ATA, USB Drive Case

$39.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
having said that, it should do fine for most people who just want an enclosure for converting an internal drive to an external drive.
from www.amazon.com
i bought this external hard drive enclosure in frys electronics.
from www.amazon.com
unlike some other external enclosures i tried, this one works.
from www.amazon.com
windows xp and windows vista readily recognized the assembled external hard drives.

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Macally 3.5" SATA Case DHGS350SU Serial ATA

$41.00 Est. at Amazon

from tokar, www.shopping.com
review: my standalone maxtor external hard drive was failing so i pulled it apart and got the hard drive out.
from www.amazon.com
if you are looking for an external enclosure, this is it.
from www.amazon.com
ok so i ordered this external hard drive case so i could use the hd from my late sadly inop imac.
from www.amazon.com
build quality is a step below my rosewill external hd enclosure (also styled like the powermac/macpro) from a few years ago.
from www.amazon.com
i have been using this case with an external hd for time machine.

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Data Robotics DR04DD10 Serial ATA

$484.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
it's a usb 2.0 or firewire 800/400 (that's ieee1394 or ilink to some people) external drive enclosure that will hold up to 4 sata drives of any capacity.
from www.amazon.com
it is much much faster than my usb 2.0 external drive i am using.
from www.amazon.com
well, i hooked up the beautiful drobo to my macbook pro today, which went swimmingly, at least until i tried to back up data from my external hard drive to the drobo.
from www.amazon.com
and at that point i returned the drobo and simply bought an external drive for backup.
from www.amazon.com
having had a couple of external usb/ide drives go down on me over the last couple of years, losing everything, i wanted something more fault-tolerant.

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Sabrent ECS-U35K USB 2.0 External

$24.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i wondered about turning it into an external hard drive.
from www.amazon.com
having recently lost five years of music collections, and more importantly, 8 years of photography through a hard drive failure, i decided to purchase an external means of back-up.
from www.amazon.com
i have to imagine that pretty much any other enclosure would be better but from now on, i'm sticking with externals for my back-ups.
from www.amazon.com
i have five external drive enclosure, this is the only one i have purchased that did not work.
from www.amazon.com
it would be much easer, and better in the long run to just buy the more expensive external hard drive enclosure, instead of looking to save a buck.

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Sabrent SBT-EKU25 USB 2.0 External

$11.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
awesome product for the price considering i was thinking of getting an external slim backup drive at costco for 200 bucks or so, now for $15 i can use my old laptop harddrives instead.
from www.amazon.com
plug it into a usb port on a working computer and it shows up as a new external drive.
from www.amazon.com
there is no way to supply external power to the enclosure except through the double usb cord that comes with the enclosure)
from www.amazon.com
great, it seems brand enclosure as good as it seems as a profesional one, i use it as external hd from ahd took out from my lapop and works great!
from www.amazon.com
just popped out the laptop harddrive and now i have an external drive and can recapture all the files from the malfunctioning laptop.

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Icydock MB453SPF MB453SPF-B Serial ATA Internal

$106.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i like this product because it keeps my "external" drives neatly stored and with the icydock external enclosure, i still have the option of taking any of them portable.
from www.amazon.com
- 3 surprisingly well cooled sata drive bays in the space of two 5.25 external drive bays

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Macally PHR-100AC FireWire IEEE 1394a

$56.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
it quickly copied about 50 gb of files to the external drive over usb 2.0 without fuss.
from www.amazon.com
i've been using this drive for more than a year now and hasn't cause a single problem yet (unlike my older external enclosures which all of them are discontinued)
from jpoltrone, www.shopping.com
pros: price, performance, swappable hard drives, usb 2, firewire cons: none found the bottom line: an external hard drive enclosure with a removable hard drive is an excellent way to upgrade a
from www.amazon.com
i have a dozen or so other external firewire drives and never a failure.
from www.amazon.com
buy a real external drive or go for a usb 2.0 hard drive enclosure (and cheaper) if you have it on your computer.

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StarTech.com InfoSafe SAT2510U2 Serial ATA

$23.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
also, i have nothing but macs in my house and was initially frustrated that my macs couldn't recognize it as an external hard drive.
from www.amazon.com
also, most compact external drives i've used require you to plug into 2 usb ports (one for data transmission and one for power) but i only plugged this into one usb port....i formatted the drive and
from www.amazon.com
i got this enclosure after my friend's laptops computer died and we needed to backup his data using this failed internal hdd as external using this enclosure.
from www.amazon.com
i bought this external case to use it with a 200gb laptop disk, the problem?
from www.amazon.com
i've had plenty of external usb hard drive enclosures and needed to cheaply pick up one more for a spare drive, so i figured this one would do the job as well as any.

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Vantec NexStar 3 NST-260SU-BK USB 2.0

$36.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
the enclosure does have an external power connector, but it does not come with a power brick so that isn't very helpful.
from www.amazon.com
if you need an external case for a 2.5" esata interface drive, i doubt that you can do better than this vantec unit.
from www.amazon.com
this is my firs external enclosure, works good i think, but their is no eject (that i can find) when running esata, other than that, simple to put drive into enclosure and then it is plug and play

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Best Drive Cases for External

Antec MX-1 USB 2.0

Antec MX-100 DHANTECMX100 Serial ATA

Vantec NST-360SU-BK USB 2.0 External

Macally G-S350SUA 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure Serial ATA

Coolmax 15333 Serial ATA

Vantec NexStar 3 NST-360U2-BK USB 2.0 External

Vantec NST-285S2-BK NexStar SX 2.5" External Hard Drive Enclosure

Macally PHR-250CC FireWire IEEE 1394a

Apricorn EZ-UP-UNIVERSAL Parallel

Acomdata SMBXXXU2E-Red IDE

Acomdata SMBXXXU2E-BLK IDE

Acomdata SMBXXXU2E-BLU Samba Usb Enclosure Kit Blue IDE

Macally 3.5" SATA Case DHGS350SU Serial ATA

Data Robotics DR04DD10 Serial ATA

Sabrent ECS-U35K USB 2.0 External

Sabrent SBT-EKU25 USB 2.0 External

Icydock MB453SPF MB453SPF-B Serial ATA Internal

Macally PHR-100AC FireWire IEEE 1394a

StarTech.com InfoSafe SAT2510U2 Serial ATA

Vantec NexStar 3 NST-260SU-BK USB 2.0

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