Comments on: More removable drive troubles

By: Ryukurai

Ryukurai — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:23:41 +0000

Antec, Coolmaster. Several make enclosures with built in fans. Other than that, an array of holes at top and bottom of the drive enclosure itself as suggested might do the trick. I *never* use non-fan based enclosure for server duty and use USB for all backup. Or, at least, dual mode boxes. e-SATA is fine for transfer under ideal conditions, but not all implementations are the same. Especially with mixed OS situations :P

By: Jim’s Random Notes - » New removable drives

Jim’s Random Notes - » New removable drives — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:04:12 +0000

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By: Roy Harvey

Roy Harvey — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:28:01 +0000

Be aware that Robert Bruce Thompson, who used to write hardware books for O’Reilly, had enough fan failures with the Antec MX-1 enclosures that he stopped recommending that one.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:49:03 +0000

Roy, this is the third or fourth time you’ve mentioned eSATA. You’d think I’d learn, what with the troubles I’ve had with these USB drives.

I’m going to try David’s suggestion of drilling some holes in the case first. If that doesn’t do it, I’ll look at eSATA and also at the Antec drive enclosure that a commenter on my Facebook page recommended.

And thanks for the link, David. I’ll definitely give it a look.

By: David Jacobson

David Jacobson — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:03:16 +0000

I agree with Roy, Here is the controller I added to my Dell home server for my external eSATA drives:

http://www.addonics.com/products/host_controller/ads3gx4r5-e.asp

By: Roy Harvey

Roy Harvey — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:24:31 +0000

You might also want to look into an eSATA approach. If nothing else it should eliminate the USB to SATA conversion electronics that are being blamed. If you can avoid overheating you might even see a performance improvement over USB.

By: David Jacobson

David Jacobson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:19:46 +0000

How ’bout just taking a drill bit to that over-zealous, marketing-designed, FreeAgent plastic shell case. Twelves holes or so around the base should do the trick. Remember to stop short of the electronics, of course. :-)