Recommend a dock & enclosure for using internal hard drives externally

fowler002

fowler002

fowler002

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Not sure after my last thread(on a different subject) if I’ll get a reply here but, I’m changing out the drives on my PS3 & PS4. Can someone suggest a decent enclosure to be able to reuse the 500gb drive from the PS4(the PS3 is only 60gb so not sure if I’ll reuse that)?

Also I have several desktop(3.5inch) sata hard disk accumulated over the years, can someone suggest a decent dock I can use to access those on my pc externally to check their health(what program to use?) and to get any data I’ve missed on them and possibly use them as backup if they’re still useable?
 
There are plenty of external docks that have slots on top which you simply slot your 2.5 to 3.5 sata 1/2/3 drives into.

£20 right up to £480 depending on requirements.

Akasa, Icy Dock, Sabrient, Wavlink to name a few.

Sometimes tempted myself to try one. Sabrient at £40 looks interesting. Problem is, once used, it sits in a box for years or collects dust.

I see a point if your continually working on drives, but realistically how often does anyone.

Its almost as easy to simply pop a pc case side panel and plug your idle drives in if simply extracting, wiping, testing.

No point buying an actual enclosure for one 3.5 drive, as it will cost as much a portable USB powered hdd and usually be slower.

I ran one myself, looked ok, slim plastic, wall adapter with 12v jack needed, long usb cable, appallingly slow read write so it never got used. In its life it had two drives and on each occasion the user experience so bad the drives were relocated into the pc, that enclosure got binned.


Now run various portable usb hdd's and a large powered external despite a multitude of 2.5 and 3.5 hdd's and sata ssd's in my spares crates.
 
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