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Title: SATA drive enclosures - anybody own one?
Post by cardinal23 on Mar 23^rd, 2007 at 8:57am

Dear esteemed Radified colleagues:
I've had a good amount of experience with IDE enclosures. My conclusion: Only buy Macally. Well, there may be other terrific brands, but the Macally enclosures are the least problematic by far (IMO). I see no compatibility issues like I do with the cheap enclosures (although the Macally's are not much more expensive).

Here's my question: Has anyone bought a SATA enclosure? What brand? Did you put it through its paces? Would you recommend it?

Thank you.

Title: Re: SATA drive enclosures - anybody own one?
Post by Brian on Mar 23^rd, 2007 at 2:02pm

cardinal23,

I have a Vantec NexStar 3 which works fine with my Dell 9150 but it experienced Delayed Write Failures with a Dell 8400 and was unusable for transferring any file over 2 GB. Vantec support was non-existent. None of my emails were answered.

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=1165522030;start=3#3

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=1142516913;start=8#8

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=1140439497

SATA speed (for large files) with this enclosure is 40 MB/sec and USB speed is 25 MB/sec. I tend to use it in USB mode more often than not as to use SATA mode with my Dell I have to shutdown, enable the SATA port in the BIOS, restart. When finished with the enclosure I have to shutdown, disable the SATA port in the BIOS, restart. If I leave the empty SATA port enabled there is an error message at each restart.

Title: Re: SATA drive enclosures - anybody own one?
Post by cardinal23 on Mar 23^rd, 2007 at 2:30pm

I'm an eight of an inch from saying "I'm getting a Macally - even if I eat hot dogs for a few days." I like Macallys.

Title: Re: SATA drive enclosures - anybody own one?
Post by Brian on Mar 23^rd, 2007 at 2:34pm

Let us know how it performs.

Title: Re: SATA drive enclosures - anybody own one?
Post by El_Pescador on Mar 23^rd, 2007 at 4:02pm

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=Full_Rad_Board;action=display;num=1174658277;start=1#1

Title: Re: SATA drive enclosures - anybody own one?
Post by El_Pescador on Mar 23^rd, 2007 at 4:34pm

[quote author=cardinal23 link=1174658224/0#2 date=1174678259]"... 'I'm getting a Macally - even if I eat hot dogs for a few days.' I like Macallys..."[/quote]
MSRP=$79.99 versus $44.99 with Free Shipping from Newegg.com does not sound like hot dogs even for a day to me ... LOL !!!

http://www.macally.com/spec/usb/storage_device/phr_100su.html

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817347003

EP :'(

Title: Re: SATA drive enclosures - anybody own one?
Post by thorin on Mar 27^th, 2007 at 4:27pm

Mr. Pescador,

Why do your posts above take me to http.com? Is this some sort of devious redirect by a nefarious character (not you)?

Title: Re: SATA drive enclosures - anybody own one?
Post by El_Pescador on Mar 27^th, 2007 at 6:08pm

thorin wrote on Mar 27^th, 2007 at 4:27pm:

"... Why do your posts above take me to http.com? Is this some sort of devious redirect by a nefarious character (not you)?..."

I stripped away all the "dressing" from the old forum and now the links work for me. Before they were double-dipping the 'http' portion of the URL.

Pesky :'(