HD Enclosure - Advice Needed

herr_brush · 8 Jan 2007 at 00:45

OK what do you think? I need an enclosure for a new hard drive (Samsung spinpoint 400GB, 16MB cache, SATA II). My main criteria requirements are that it cools the drive without being too noisy and the connection is fast. I've narrowed it down to the Icy Box ones:

SATA Connection
or
NAS Connection

Are there any advantages to going with the second one as opposed to simply sharing the drive through windows if I want to network it in the future? Also, are there any better enclosures for my needs?

Thanks!

herr_brush · 8 Jan 2007 at 21:34

Yeah thats true. Not sure if it would be a deal breaker though.

Anybody here own one of the Icy Boxes linked above? How are they for cooling and noise?

herr_brush · 9 Jan 2007 at 19:01

jbloggs said:
herr_brush:

I recently purchased the Icy Box External Enclosure IB-360AStUS SATA + USB Combo, have fitted a 120GB PATA Maxtor DiamondMax 9, it works very well, good transfer rate (I think), in HDTach over USB2, Average read 31MB/s. I have it attached to 1 computer, with it set to "Shared" over a small network.

If you use a SATA I/II HDD in it, you can transfer data either over USB2 (31MB/s) or by SATA (full Average read of HDD, ie 55MB/s +). A good bit of hardware for the price.

Great thats what I wanted to hear. I've ordered it now!