hard drive enclosure recommendations?
hard drive enclosure recommendations?
just bought a new seagate 500gb drive to move into my wiebetech toughtech FW 800 enclosure, which currently holds a western digital 200gb. i want to put the old 200gb drive into a new enclosure and use it for storage/backup. any recommendations for the new enclosure?
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Every hard drive should have a fan blowing across it; however FAN = WHITE NOISE. The noise put off by a computer makes it hard to really hear your mix, so I can see why you wouldn't want a fan.nebulae wrote:Why is it good to have no fan? I thought it was better to have fans...
A better solution is a water-cooled system or something like the AcoustiRACK or a KK Audio QR12 Quiet Rack. I'm not posting links as I don't want folks to think I'm pimping merch.
Ghost.
Re: hard drive enclosure recommendations?
why do you use an FW800 connection? those enclosures are a marketing trick because if i remember correctly, the IDE connection is much slower than FW400, let alone FW800. But do please correct me if im wrongdm_hawk wrote:just bought a new seagate 500gb drive to move into my wiebetech toughtech FW 800 enclosure, which currently holds a western digital 200gb. i want to put the old 200gb drive into a new enclosure and use it for storage/backup. any recommendations for the new enclosure?
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That's news to me...ikke wrote:why do you use an FW800 connection? those enclosures are a marketing trick because if i remember correctly, the IDE connection is much slower than FW400, let alone FW800. But do please correct me if im wrongdm_hawk wrote:just bought a new seagate 500gb drive to move into my wiebetech toughtech FW 800 enclosure, which currently holds a western digital 200gb. i want to put the old 200gb drive into a new enclosure and use it for storage/backup. any recommendations for the new enclosure?
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I recommend the enclosures at www.macsales.com - OWC (oneWorldComputing) is a mac specialist company (although their products work with all computers) who make very high quality enclosures that just work "right" - I have not had noise problems or any other issues using their products like I have had with some genric enclosures....
Can you hear it?
http://www.cooldrives.com
Best quality USB/Firewire enclosures on the market. And yes, having a fan is better.
Best quality USB/Firewire enclosures on the market. And yes, having a fan is better.
i wanted to go cheap, but after first getting confused over the rebranding, then reading bone-chilling reviews on retailer sites and tech forums about various sub-$50 enclosures cooking hard drives, destroying marriages, and giving people the AIDS, i decided to get a wiebetech toughtech 400 for $75. I've been traveling all over with a toughtech 800 for the past 2 years, and it's performed flawlessly. i hated to spend the extra 50 bucks, but it's a bargain compared losing 200 gigs of data
some rebranding examples:
onnto = weibetech toughtech = coolgear FW
raidsonic icy box = galaxy metal gear box = ppa metal gear box
some rebranding examples:
onnto = weibetech toughtech = coolgear FW
raidsonic icy box = galaxy metal gear box = ppa metal gear box
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