Best HDD enclosure for SATA discs?

nightwish · 23 Jan 2006 at 16:02

Question as above really. As far as I can see, there are only two on the ocuk site.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Removable_Hard_Drive_Racks.html

One is the
'Stardom U6-1S-B2 Serial ATA to USB 2.0 Hard Drive Enclosure'
at £43.42

and the other is the,
'Icy Box External Enclosure IB-351ST-US-B Serial ATA to USB 2.0 - Black'
at £34.02

Anyone used either of these? What would you reccommend?
Cheers!

(ps. It will probably be used with a 160GB or a 200GB Samsung Spinpoint if that makes any difference)

nightwish · 24 Jan 2006 at 17:45

Has nobody got any of these things then?

I've also found the:
"Enermax External Enclosure EB305C IDE/SATA to USB2.0 - Black"
at £29.32

which has the advantage of being able to take both IDE and SATA discs, which is great, but its also cheaper than both of the above sata-only options and I'm wondering why?

Anybody?

nightwish · 25 Jan 2006 at 17:57

Cool

Cheers!

nightwish · 27 Jan 2006 at 14:49

Cheers for that mate!

Looks like it'll go on my shopping list then!

I'm slightly suprised that more people haven't got one of these - I'm sure I'm going to find one very useful...

nightwish · 30 Mar 2006 at 10:35

bornslippy said:
I'm also interested in getting an external hard drive case and separate hard drive. I like the look of the Icy Box. Anyone know whether it is worth going with SATA for external hard drives or better to stick to IDE?

I don't think it really matters, but most of the enclosures available atm are IDE only. Having said that they are more SATA ones starting to become available.

In the end, I went for the,
Enermax External Enclosure EB305C IDE/SATA to USB2.0 - Black
mainly because you can put either type of disc in there. I'm very pleased with it generally - plug and play, solidly built, worked flawlessly so far. The Icyboxes are also good tho...