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Vantec NST-360SU-BK USB 2.0 External

$47.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
have a 500 gb sata ii maxtor drive inside and have had it running for 5 days now.
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
e-sata , 110-240v and usb with no glithes!
from www.amazon.com
strong and safe for your sata drive.

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2 RECOMMENDED by 8 people for SATA

Macally G-S350SUA 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure Serial ATA

$42.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
presently i have a sata 500gb western digital hard drive in it.
from www.amazon.com
i dropped in an old sata drive i had, put everything together and hooked it up.
from silverstreak9, www.shopping.com
pros: excellent build quality, cool running, cool looking, usb-firewire-esata cables included cons: needs (included) ac adapter, plastic back plate the bottom line: easily assembled drive
from www.amazon.com
what no e-sata cable?
from www.amazon.com
i was looking for a multi purpose sata enclosure that had all three current connections: usb2, firewire, and esata.

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3 RECOMMENDED by 13 people for SATA

Antec MX-100 DHANTECMX100 Serial ATA

$40.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
the metal case conducts heat out from the drive without a noisy fan like the one in it's sister product, the antec mx-1 usb/e-sata 3.5-inch hard drive enclosure
from www.amazon.com
the antec mx-100 3.5" usb aluminum enclosure for sata hard drives does exactly what it is supposed to do, convert a sata hard drive to a usb connected external hard drive.
from Gambit624, www.shopping.com
the bottom line: if you are looking for an inexpensive hard drive enclosure for a sata drive, give this one a good look review: i replaced my sata hdd in my emachine about five months ago.
from ruel24, www.newegg.com
you would be better off just running a ide/sata cable and molex from your power supply then getting this thing.
from www.amazon.com
this is a good basic enclosure if you just want to hook up your sata drive via usb 2.

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4 RECOMMENDED by 21 people for SATA

Antec MX-1 USB 2.0

$65.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i installed a 160gb sata hard drive, made the connection and it runs quiet and cool.
from www.amazon.com
i use this to house seagate barracuda sata drive, using the usb connectivity and it is fantastic.
from esasaki, www.shopping.com
review: if you're a computer diy'er like me, you're bound to have a bunch of outdated sata hard drives collecting dust.
from www.amazon.com
antec mx-1 usb/e-sata 3.5-inch hard drive enclosure
from www.amazon.com
the second was a western digital wd10eads, 1000gb/sata/32m, which just arrived from amazon.

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5 RECOMMENDED by 7 people for SATA

EXT ENCL THERMALTAKE|N0012US R Serial ATA

$51.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
installed a maxtor 500gb/sata300/16mb in it.
from www.amazon.com
it came with all the cables i could imagine for usb, esata, and sata-sata.
from www.amazon.com
i am using this with a 750gb sata disk connected to my tivo.
from www.amazon.com
combined with a lacie pci express card model 130804 and seagate terrabyte sata drives.
from www.amazon.com
my sata drive slid right into the connector and worked great when i backed up my computer.

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StarTech.com InfoSafe SAT2510U2 Serial ATA

$20.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i purchased this product to hook up my laptop's sata drive to my desktop for backup and transfer.
from www.amazon.com
i had an extra 2.5" sata drive from an old laptop, and this was the perfect way to turn it into extra storage.
from www.amazon.com
the sata connectors dont match at all...
from www.amazon.com
i'd recommend an imicro 2.5 sata and ide combo enclosure.
from www.amazon.com
this enclosure is small, fits in a shirt pocket, is made of an aluminum extrusion with plastic ends and fits the 2.5" sata drive just fine.

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Acomdata SMBXXXU2E-Red IDE

$39.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
it is a tight fit to get a drive in it and i ended up removing the sata cable as suggested since i was using an ide.
from www.amazon.com
love the way it works with both sata and pata drives.
from www.amazon.com
i tried this with both an old pata/ide and a new sata drive; both worked flawlessly.
from www.amazon.com
- takes a pata(ide) or sata hard drive.
from www.amazon.com
it offers ide or sata to usb 2.0 interfaces.

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Acomdata SMBXXXU2E-BLK IDE

$39.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
it is a tight fit to get a drive in it and i ended up removing the sata cable as suggested since i was using an ide.
from www.amazon.com
love the way it works with both sata and pata drives.
from www.amazon.com
i tried this with both an old pata/ide and a new sata drive; both worked flawlessly.
from www.amazon.com
- takes a pata(ide) or sata hard drive.
from www.amazon.com
it offers ide or sata to usb 2.0 interfaces.

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Apricorn EZ-UP-UNIVERSAL Parallel

$42.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i was running out of space on my 80gb hdd so i decided to get the western digital scorpio black 320 gb bulk/oem hard drive 2.5 inch, 16 mb cache, 7200 rpm sata ii wd3200bekt to replace it.
from www.amazon.com
as the serial ata (sata) port and windows vista operating system came about, i had to buy this new product.
from lt.dell.com
prosvery easy to install and works with sata/pata ide hard-drives.
from lt.dell.com
share this review: review?2?for?ez upgrade universal upgrade kit for sata/ pata laptop hard drive overall: 1 [ratingof] 5 ease of installation: 1 [ratingof] 5
from lt.dell.com
conswas difficult for me to determine if my existing hd was pata or sata so i could purchase the correct upgrade kit.

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Data Robotics DR04DD10 Serial ATA

$498.00 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
i then took apart my 1tb external disk which was a sata drive and put it in the drobo and expanded my space even further and now my data is spanning 3 disks.
from kristoffe brodeur, www.newegg.com
this is a really expensive, overheating version of the generic $160.00 eide or sata 4 drive usb enclosure, with, firewire 800, which it cannot deliver on, at all.
from www.amazon.com
if you're looking to run ultra-fast network backups disk-to-disk over a network, well, drobo is not for you even with firewire800 it's painfully slow compared to our fileserver which internally
from www.amazon.com
it's cheaper, easier and just as effective as data robotics dr04dd10 drobo 4-bays usb 2.0 and firewire 800 fully automated sata robotic storage array.

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Macally B-S250U-B Brushed Aluminum USB 2.0 To SATA 2.5" Notebook

$26.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
it does a decent job of providing a usb interface to your 2.5" sata drive.
from www.amazon.com
the drive will fit into a sata plug within the enclosure, accessed by pulling the connector (rear) end of the case.
from pvreditor, www.shopping.com
pros: nice instructions; fits my hitachi 2.5-inch sata drive perfectly; rugged unit cons: requires two cables and two usb ports to make it work.
from www.amazon.com
i bought a different unit, startech sat2510u2 infosafe 2.5-inch usb/sata hard drive enclosure, and it works find off of one usb port.
from www.amazon.com
i read of sata enclosures that proved useless because underpowered.

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MicroPac Technologies MPT USB 2.0 to Serial ATA

$24.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i had to extract the hard drive and connect it, using the sata-to-usb cable, to another linux machine.
from www.amazon.com
i only use the sata to usb portion of this device and it works just as advertised.
from www.amazon.com
i thought i would be able to take this with me and use my sata drives with usb but you also need to take the rather large power adapter also.
from www.amazon.com
i plan to attach the sata adapter to a different power supply to continue using it, but for anyone who doesn't have electrical skill to do the same i say: do not buy this product!
from www.amazon.com
forget about opening your case, pluging the harddrive to your sata controller, and booting up.

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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
it is a tight fit to get a drive in it and i ended up removing the sata cable as suggested since i was using an ide.
from www.amazon.com
love the way it works with both sata and pata drives.
from mattyhead, www.newegg.com
cons: sata doesn't, and pretty doesn't matter if it doesn't work.
from www.amazon.com
i tried this with both an old pata/ide and a new sata drive; both worked flawlessly.
from www.amazon.com
- takes a pata(ide) or sata hard drive.

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Coolmax 15333 Serial ATA

$14.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
it was very easy to install my sata drive.
from www.amazon.com
extra sata drive plus this $17 enclosure equals portable external 80gb drive.
from www.amazon.com
i recently purchased this unit to be used with a sata hard drive.
from www.amazon.com
so, it's a cheap enclosure for the old sata drive that was taken out in an upgrade.
from www.amazon.com
to my plesant suprise no connecting cables are necessary to install a sata drive in the enclosure.

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More Products Matching Sata

Sans Digital TowerRAID TR4M-B 4 Bay SATA to eSATA Port Multiplier JBOD/RAID 0

from Kitsu, www.newegg.com
it allows you to run two of these things or have an extra e-sata port if necessary.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
in sataraid5 manager page, please click “file” -> “configuration” and the window “configuration screen” will pop out.click “advanced options” and unmark “advanced raid features” -> “ok”.if it doesn’t
from gringott, www.newegg.com
comes with internal sata ii / esata card with 2 external ports - potential of two of these enclosures - total eight more drives.

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Icydock MB453SPF MB453SPF-B Serial ATA Internal

from www.amazon.com
it works fine and performance matches that of your sata back-end that you plug it into.
from www.amazon.com
- 3 surprisingly well cooled sata drive bays in the space of two 5.25 external drive bays
from www.amazon.com
- not much more expensive (maybe even cheaper) than 3 separate sata hot-swappable mobile racks, plus it saves space
from www.amazon.com
it works great with sata ii speeds, and you can configure your drives in any raid you choose, just like they were installed in their normal cages.

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Macally 3.5" SATA Case DHGS350SU Serial ATA

from tokar, www.shopping.com
the bottom line: it is an excellent product that i would recommend to anyone looking for an enclosure for 3.5" sata hard drives.
from www.amazon.com
i had a 750 gb seagate sata drive that i inserted into it.
from km21, www.shopping.com
review: i put a 1tb samsung spinpoint drive in my powermac and wanted an enclosure for the 300gb sata drive i took out of it.
from www.amazon.com
my 500gb seagate sata drive worked perfectly in it.

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Sabrent ECS-U35K USB 2.0 External

from www.amazon.com
i couldnt install the old drive into my new dell because my dell uses sata and my old drive was ide.
from www.amazon.com
the new computers, sometimes, only works with sata hard disk drives.
from www.amazon.com
i tried using a conversion cable (sata to ide) but couldn't get that to work.
from www.amazon.com
i had just finished upgrading my computer to use sata drives and wanted to use my old pata drives for external backup and this was the ticket.

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Vantec NexStar 3 NST-260U2-BL USB 2.0 External

from www.amazon.com
i've bought 2 of the nexstar sata enclosures and 1 of the 3.5 ide drive enclosures as well.
from www.amazon.com
one is called ide (usually has 44 pins) and another is called sata.

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Vantec NexStar SX 2.5 USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

from www.amazon.com
i have only myself to blame for this but if you have sata hdd this will not work with it.
from www.amazon.com
this is not a sata hd enclosure).

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Best Drive Cases for Sata

Vantec NST-360SU-BK USB 2.0 External

Macally G-S350SUA 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure Serial ATA

Antec MX-100 DHANTECMX100 Serial ATA

Antec MX-1 USB 2.0

EXT ENCL THERMALTAKE|N0012US R Serial ATA

StarTech.com InfoSafe SAT2510U2 Serial ATA

Acomdata SMBXXXU2E-Red IDE

Acomdata SMBXXXU2E-BLK IDE

Apricorn EZ-UP-UNIVERSAL Parallel

Data Robotics DR04DD10 Serial ATA

Macally B-S250U-B Brushed Aluminum USB 2.0 To SATA 2.5" Notebook

MicroPac Technologies MPT USB 2.0 to Serial ATA

Acomdata SMBXXXU2E-BLU Samba Usb Enclosure Kit Blue IDE

Coolmax 15333 Serial ATA

Sans Digital TowerRAID TR4M-B 4 Bay SATA to eSATA Port Multiplier JBOD/RAID 0

Icydock MB453SPF MB453SPF-B Serial ATA Internal

Macally 3.5" SATA Case DHGS350SU Serial ATA

Sabrent ECS-U35K USB 2.0 External

Vantec NexStar 3 NST-260U2-BL USB 2.0 External

Vantec NexStar SX 2.5 USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

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