enclosures/cases for hard drives

[GiantsFan]

anyone know of any good external enclosures/cases for internal hard drives? if so, please post the link

[JOD8FY]

Go to www.newegg.com and do a search for them. They have a lot of enclosures for hard drives. I bought one from them and they were great. I ordered the enclosure on Tuesday and had it on Friday with regular shipping. I highly recommend them.

JOD8FY

[JRam]

I went out and got a Metal Gear Substance by Techimo (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-145-744&depa=1). And while I really enjoy the way it looks, I find that whenever the power is on then the hard drive is doing something, which means I can hear the bugger going *wheeeeeeee!* (your basic hard drive runnin' sound) and that gets slightly annoying. I guess partly a problem of just having a loud hard drive, although I can tell ya that the Metal Gear case's main priority isn't to dampen noise.

But if you want a snazzy external hard drive case.... its a winner :cool:

[cpjakes]

I like GraniteDigital.com's offerings. They have hot swap cases, so you have a few drives in caddies/trays and swap them in the main enclosure. I've got two 80GB and a 120GB drive in mine and they're great. Especially if you need a lot of storage. The main case is around $200 and the trays are $30, but it's cheaper than buying another $100 full size case every time you need to expand. Plus, if you were to have enclosures in different places, moving the drives in the caddies works out really well.

They've got FireWire 400 and 800, USB 1.1/2 and regular (non-hotswap) cases.

cpjakes

[scottwat]

Ok I like the idea hot swapping but I have about 3 100 or 120 gig harddrives, I have one in a firewire case and then I have been swapping in and out, but thats getting to wear on the case and clips. What about a double drive enclosure? even a firewire raid enclosure? Doesn't matter how its set up really. Just dont want it to cost all that much.

[Brother Michael]

Firewire enclosures (http://search.ebay.com/firewire-enclosure_W0QQsokeywordredirectZ1QQfromZR8)

That's where I got mine.

Mike