OT: External enclosures advice

Ok I narrowed down my choice to either a one or a two drive external
enclosure and the price is almost the same per drive. I decided to go
with a SATA interface inside the enclosure tho it looks like IDE might
be more popular right now. If it matters, I'll have about 4 to 8
systems on a home network. The reason I chose the SATA was for
future needs but any thoughts on this?? And is it worth considering
1 or 2 drive enclosures?? I'm inexperienced with this stuff except
for the mybook external I have. I chose this time not to go with
mybook because the reviews looked to me like the quality went down a
lot and I'm looking for reliable external drives.

If it matters here are my choices for enclosures ...
a) Galaxy METAL GEAR 3538UC-Black Aluminum 3.5" x 2 Black USB 2.0
Dual Bay External Enclosure

-- or--

b) VANTEC NST-360SU-BK 3.5" eSATA + USB2.0 Aluminum External
Enclosure


and for now my choice for a new hard drive (actually just one for now)
is the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3500630AS
500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (OEM)


My priorities is quality/reliability and then the cost. Feel free to
comment as I'm listening and thanks.

Vantec is a VERY good brand. I recently bought some 2.5" ATA iMicro external
drive enclosures on sale from my distributor. Childishly simple to put a drive
in one... Ben Myers

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:34:39 -0600, RnR <> wrote:

>Ok I narrowed down my choice to either a one or a two drive external
>enclosure and the price is almost the same per drive. I decided to go
>with a SATA interface inside the enclosure tho it looks like IDE might
>be more popular right now. If it matters, I'll have about 4 to 8
>systems on a home network. The reason I chose the SATA was for
>future needs but any thoughts on this?? And is it worth considering
>1 or 2 drive enclosures?? I'm inexperienced with this stuff except
>for the mybook external I have. I chose this time not to go with
>mybook because the reviews looked to me like the quality went down a
>lot and I'm looking for reliable external drives.
>
>If it matters here are my choices for enclosures ...
>a) Galaxy METAL GEAR 3538UC-Black Aluminum 3.5" x 2 Black USB 2.0
> Dual Bay External Enclosure
>
> -- or--
>
>b) VANTEC NST-360SU-BK 3.5" eSATA + USB2.0 Aluminum External
> Enclosure
>
>
>and for now my choice for a new hard drive (actually just one for now)
>is the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3500630AS
>500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (OEM)
>
>
>My priorities is quality/reliability and then the cost. Feel free to
>comment as I'm listening and thanks.

Ben Myers <> wrote in
news::

> Vantec is a VERY good brand. I recently bought some 2.5" ATA iMicro
> external drive enclosures on sale from my distributor. Childishly
> simple to put a drive in one... Ben Myers
>
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:34:39 -0600, RnR <> wrote:
>
>>Ok I narrowed down my choice to either a one or a two drive external
>>enclosure and the price is almost the same per drive. I decided to go
>>with a SATA interface inside the enclosure tho it looks like IDE might
>>be more popular right now. If it matters, I'll have about 4 to 8
>>systems on a home network. The reason I chose the SATA was for
>>future needs but any thoughts on this?? And is it worth considering
>>1 or 2 drive enclosures?? I'm inexperienced with this stuff except
>>for the mybook external I have. I chose this time not to go with
>>mybook because the reviews looked to me like the quality went down a
>>lot and I'm looking for reliable external drives.
>>
>>If it matters here are my choices for enclosures ...
>>a) Galaxy METAL GEAR 3538UC-Black Aluminum 3.5" x 2 Black USB 2.0
>> Dual Bay External Enclosure
>>
>> -- or--
>>
>>b) VANTEC NST-360SU-BK 3.5" eSATA + USB2.0 Aluminum External
>> Enclosure
>>
>>
>>and for now my choice for a new hard drive (actually just one for now)
>>is the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3500630AS
>>500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (OEM)
>>
>>
>>My priorities is quality/reliability and then the cost. Feel free to
>>comment as I'm listening and thanks.
>

I have the IDE version of that Vantec you show. I love it.

RnR <> wrote in
news::

> Ok I narrowed down my choice to either a one or a two drive external
> enclosure and the price is almost the same per drive. I decided to go
> with a SATA interface inside the enclosure tho it looks like IDE might
> be more popular right now. If it matters, I'll have about 4 to 8
> systems on a home network. The reason I chose the SATA was for
> future needs but any thoughts on this?? And is it worth considering
> 1 or 2 drive enclosures?? I'm inexperienced with this stuff except
> for the mybook external I have. I chose this time not to go with
> mybook because the reviews looked to me like the quality went down a
> lot and I'm looking for reliable external drives.
>
> If it matters here are my choices for enclosures ...
> a) Galaxy METAL GEAR 3538UC-Black Aluminum 3.5" x 2 Black USB 2.0
> Dual Bay External Enclosure
>
> -- or--
>
> b) VANTEC NST-360SU-BK 3.5" eSATA + USB2.0 Aluminum External
> Enclosure
>
>
> and for now my choice for a new hard drive (actually just one for now)
> is the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3500630AS
> 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (OEM)
>
>
> My priorities is quality/reliability and then the cost. Feel free to
> comment as I'm listening and thanks.

I have the IDE version of that Vantec you show. I love it.

I have that Vantec eSATA enclosure. It didn't work with my computer.
Freezing during large file transfers. Vantec didn't respond to my email so
don't expect support.

I have another computer now and the enclosure works fine.





"RnR" <> wrote in message
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> b) VANTEC NST-360SU-BK 3.5" eSATA + USB2.0 Aluminum External
> Enclosure
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