Recommend me a good removable IDE hard drive enclosure please!!

[John P]

OK guys and gals. I have some cheap removable plastic hard drive enclosures/trays and I have had nothing but trouble with them. The fans go out or make horrible noises. If I unhook the fan the drives get very hot. I have trouble with the enclosures working properly to be recognized in Win XP Pro - if I put it on the same IDE channel as my DVD writer the drive is not recognized or is sometime recognized. If I stick the same hard drive in the computer without the enclosure it works fine. If I hook the enclosure up to a Maxtor ATA 133 PCI Card the drives are not recognized at all.

Anyway - please recommend me something that will work hassle free. Thanks!!

 

[kd2777]

I bought one of these a few weeks back and it has worked great. Noise and temp where my two main concerns and I have to say this enclosure seems to work good on both of those problems. I have a 7200RPM drive so I was afraid that it may get too warm, but it seems to be holding up quite well. There are cheaper enclosures out there (and more expensive ones) but for less than 30 bucks to your door, it isn't going to break the bank. That said I also considered the Lian-Li enclosures because of their ATX case quality, but newegg was sold out at the time making my decision easier. I?m glad they where sold out.

Hope that helped

kd

 

[John P]

One bump.

 

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