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External SATA enclosure for multiple disks
OK, so I have used an older version of this product with success, but not had a chance to use their latest version. My experience was good enough to make a general recommendation. Icy Dock now ...
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External SATA enclosure for multiple disks
The Mediasonic Probox looks like a good option for you. It can be found here It has support for esata and usb 3.0. It has fairly good cooling with a thermal sensor to automatically change the fan ...
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External Enclosure for 2 SAS HDDs
you can just amazon "external sas".
for example "HighPoint RocketStor 6414S 6Gb/s SAS/SATA 4-Bay Storage Tower Enclosure" for $289.
you are not likely to find anything economical, ...
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Hard disk case, similar to the included image
The real problem is that the difference between an external hard drive and an external hard drive enclosure is whether or not there's a drive in it. Most of the manufacturers sell the enclosures ...
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External HDD enclosure effect on transfer speed
Ok, I thought I'd circle back and answer my question, since I went ahead and got the enclosure.
I tested the transfer rate of the drive in its new enclosure, it sustained 80 MB/s for some files, but ...
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Measuring reliability on newer harddrives in usb 3 enclosures
Nearly every enclosure now has a converter board speaking USB on one side and SATA, SATA M2, or NVME M.2 on the other. Most I've seen lately don't pass S.M.A.R.T because that extra logic to translate ...
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Hardrive case with WiFi and/or Ethernet interface
You might look at mixing a usb-to-sata connector (about £10 on amazon.co.uk) unless your discs are already usb, with something like the Verbatim 98243 MediaShare Wireless (about £10), or a router with ...
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USB3.0 RAID 1 enclosure that can be connected to my new router
Do devices like these always work nicely together these days?
This depends on the dual-bay enclosure that you buy, but most of them appear to the computer as a USB hub with either one or two USB ...
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2.5 inch HDD enclosure with jumper pins?
It is supposed to be this way.
Those jumper pins are not used to be connected to something. Instead, you use jumper shunts to connect the pins together. A jumper shunt, by the way, is this thing that ...
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