Akasa integral ESATA

fobose · 11 Jun 2007 at 16:12

Akasa integral ESATA

I am thinking about buying one of these as my bro wants more hdd space (he only has laptop), anyway this enclosure says it only supports up to 400GB hard drives - why is this so? What would happen if I plugged in a 500GB, would it not detect it, or would it only "see" 400GB?

The reason I ask is because the difference between 400 and 500GB hard drives isn't much and I would obviously prefer to get him the biggest drive I can.

I asked this in the HD forum but no one seemed to answer...

Any help much appreciated.

Borden · 11 Jun 2007 at 16:26

400GB seems a bit odd to me. Normally external enclosures are limited to 500GB. Sorry i can't help you more with this.

However i can try and pursuade you not to buy the akasa

I had one and it lasted a week. All it looked like was a fancy enclosure for a generic/crappy pcb. It's also quite plasticky and doesn't feel or look that well made.

I would advise going for an Icy Box 360AStUS (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-004-BT) as, even though i don't have one, many people rate them highly and the company is experienced in making hdd caddies. That's the one i'll be going for next time i get an enclosure.

fobose · 11 Jun 2007 at 16:40

Thanks for you reply, the pic on OcUK looks terrible, however after finding a review on google the "real life" pictures look much better. Also the fact it comes with a PCI bracket for connecting SATA will be very handy for me to steal off my brother

Only one concern, I dont see a "GB limit" on this enclosure so does that mean I can put in any size drive or is there a limit?

Borden · 11 Jun 2007 at 16:49

I don't know, sorry. There isn't much info about it on the website. Try asking rpstewart, he seems pretty knowledgable when it comes to this sort of thing.

james.miller · 11 Jun 2007 at 16:57

most probably because when it was released, that was the biggest drive tested/available. there's no reason why it would be limited to 400gb

fobose · 11 Jun 2007 at 16:57

Well that one is the wrong model to the one on OcUK, but this one is the right one;

http://www.raidsonic.de/en/pages/search/search_list.php?we_objectID=4376&pid=0

and it says " Without disk capacity limit" on both of them so

Thanks for your help

Borden · 11 Jun 2007 at 17:00

fobose said:
Well that one is the wrong model to the one on OcUK, but this one is the right one;

http://www.raidsonic.de/en/pages/search/search_list.php?we_objectID=4376&pid=0

and it says " Without disk capacity limit" on both of them so

Thanks for your help

lol how did i not see that...i must be going blind

Indy500 · 11 Jun 2007 at 17:01

I've got one, works fine. I've had it more than a week mark1

fobose · 11 Jun 2007 at 17:02

You probably did what I did and was looking for "<number>GB limit" but after I read what was included I noticed it at the bottom lol.

Borden · 11 Jun 2007 at 17:03

sr4470 said:
I've got one, works fine. I've had it more than a week mark1

Well i must be unlucky. I would still get the Icy Box over it though if i were to buy one now.

^^That's exactly what i did fobose

Indy500 · 11 Jun 2007 at 17:11

mark1 said:
Well i must be unlucky. I would still get the Icy Box over it though if i were to buy one now.

Bit expensive :confused:

Comes to over £40inc delivery, I may as well buy a hard drive for that price.

Borden · 11 Jun 2007 at 17:27

sr4470 said:
Bit expensive Comes to over £40inc delivery, I may as well buy a hard drive for that price.

That's why i bought the Akasa the first time round and look how that turned out

Plus, it doesn't necessarily have to cost you £40inc delivery, if you know what i mean