External Enclosure for a portable Drive

[ParatoOptimal]

What's a good external case to turn a 5.25, internal CD-RW into an external/portable?

What's a good external case to turn a 3.5 internal HD into an external/portable?

Cheap is good but not crap.

Thanks


p.s.
Does anone make a single external case that works like a swappable, internal bay,
i.e. that would allow you to connect one external case via firewire/usb
and then alternate between slipping an HD or CD-RW into that one external case as internal male/female swap bays allow you to do with HD's?

 

[Zepper]

Almost all of them are based on a very few chipsets. Look for Oxford and you should be OK. If I were to do that, I would want it to work with both USB 1.1 and 2.x. compgeeks.com carries quite a few and newegg has some too. ADS is supposed to be one of the better known brands, but I thought I heard something about them going toes up - I could be wrong, so many of these A Something Something compaines...
.bh.

 

[Coquito]

After getting a small external hd made by belkin, I liked it so much, I bought some standard size belkin enclosures on ebay. For the time I used them, they were just what I was looking for. Most of the dealers on ebay only have expensive, fixed price auctions, but I was lucky, & got them from an average ebayer at a good price.

Pretty sure you can't use them internally, while still in the enclosure though.

 

[pspada]

I tried several external cases, and the best of the lot was the Bytecc. The specific one I have has both firewire and USB2 interfaces, is Aluminum (no internal fan), and most importantly, works just fine with Ghost. I don't much like the plastic ones, as they are less likely to survive minor knocking around, as well as having an internal fan - and moving parts like that can break. And none of the cheaper plastic ones had USB2 that worked with Ghost.

 

[ParatoOptimal]

Thak you all for the info.

I hope these aren't expensive.

 

[pspada]

$39 at newegg (USB2 version)