Any fancy hdd enclosures on the market?

[toke lahti]

All I see is very cheap garbage in Amazon or very overpriced "professional" solutions.
Any reasonable choices available nowdays?

I had the original Macally's "miniature-MP-cheesegrater G-S350.
The usb port fried on it.

I had Yottamaster's replica of that, DR1.
The usb-c port on it got fried.
It had a horrible cheap too thin metal parts, which started to rattle hdd vibrating it.
No wonder Yottamaster cancelled the model.

Once I had Antec's MX-1, which was great!
It had a big silent fan it.

 

[uller6]

I haven't purchased a 3.5" HDD in 10 years now. 2.5" HDDs are big enough for me, are much quieter, and use a lot less electricity. I usually buy whichever $10 enclosure I can get on amazon - they're all fast enough for backups and even if an enclosure dies I'm only out $10.

 

[toke lahti]

I've bought big drives for Time Machine.
And after upgrading from Mojave to Monterey both my hfs+-TM-disks corrupted.

Copying them to healthy file system does not work either.

Apple suggests that best way to archive your data is to format backup drives.