20% off external enclosures @Newegg

[Zap]

Newegg is giving 20% off all external enclosures with code EMCXTWR43 exp.3/17

One of the more interesting (to me) external enclosures is this Vantec NexStar HX4 which is $99.99 with free shipping and holds four SATA HDDs in a single USB 3.0 enclosure. The code would put it at $80 shipped.

 

[kleinkinstein]

If only it had some hardware RAID 5 baked in! Even so, what atrocious placement of the 80mm fan. It does nothing for hdd 2-4.

 

[Gast]

The Zalman VE300 is an awesome little SSD enclosure. They do have some quality control issues on the drive, but I haven't seen anything else with a similar functionality. Def worth checking out. They also have a $10 rebate on them. Up to 4 rebates per household.

Silver: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817379027
Black: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817379026

 

[donfm]

The Zalman VE300 is an awesome little SSD enclosure. They do have some quality control issues on the drive, but I haven't seen anything else with a similar functionality. Def worth checking out. They also have a $10 rebate on them. Up to 4 rebates per household.

Silver: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817379027
Black: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817379026

45% of the people at Newegg gave it 2 stars or less....the silver version it was 60%......yea I'd say it has some issues alright.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Any good SATA HDD docks that people would recommend? Mostly for 3.5" but 2.5" support would be nice.

 

[chizow]

Anyone in the market for an enclosure should also consider one of the entry-level NAS boxes for around the same price. There's a Buffalo and Iomega 2-bay unit that often hit the $80-$100 range. Right now Newegg is offering a Netgear version running the same Marvell ASIC for $100 after promo:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822122098

The downside of the NAS boxes is less capacity (4-bay runs $200+), less wired connectivity options, generally lower transfer speeds, and fewer RAID options, but the huge upside is that they are network-accessible by any device on your network.

I've been using the Iomega 2-bay unit for a few months and love it. Works great from all my PCs, handheld/mobile devices, and even my smart TVs. I can even record premium encrypted channels from my SD HD HomeRun Prime directly to the NAS using the iSCSI feature. Great way to re-purpose some of my older 1TB drives that I wanted to move out of my main rig.

 

[kmmatney]

One of my Samsung SSDs came with a USB-to-SATA adapter, so I now just carry around an old OCZ Agility 2 SSD as my external HDD, using the adapter and no enclosure. It's nice being able to copy a GB of data in a few seconds.