2.5 HDD Enclosure

rctneil · 18 Jul 2010 at 16:54

Hello,
I currently have a portable 2.5 HDD Enclosure. It works great but the connection is mini usb and it's a bit loose and as I have some important data on it that could corrupt if it's pulled out whilst being worked on. I was wondering if someone could reccomend me a new enclosure for my HDD that has full size USB at both ends, one that supports a sata hard drive connection and also has e-sata connection.

I need it very quickly as I am going away very shortly.

Thanks

Neil

AbsenceJam · 18 Jul 2010 at 18:31

Why not glue the cable in?

rctneil · 18 Jul 2010 at 18:40

cos then the hdd wouldnt fit in it's case and would be hard to transport

beefybarn · 18 Jul 2010 at 23:18

Why not pick up a few cheap enclosures ( £5 a time on a certain auction site) and use and bin as required. I have 4 of them with drives for my laptop in and they have all lasted a year or more already.

Harpss1ngh · 20 Jul 2010 at 12:40

All 2.5" enclosures have mini usb ports. Get one of the akasa enclosures from overclockers, they have sata interfaces and esata and usb combo connections and I've had some for years and never had a problem.

AbsenceJam · 20 Jul 2010 at 14:47

Harpss1ngh said:
All 2.5" enclosures have mini usb ports. Get one of the akasa enclosures from overclockers, they have sata interfaces and esata and usb combo connections and I've had some for years and never had a problem.

Not all do. I have some with MicroUSB and some with 'fullsize' A-A.