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Hard Drive Enclosures

DasFox

DasFox

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Well I had a Vantec hard drive enclosure and two Segate hard drives died with this enclosure, so I'm a bit nervous about using it again, because I can't believe that two
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 SATA 300GB/16MB cache drives would of died so sudden.

So I want to toss the enclosure, RMA the drive back to Seagate and start with another enclosure.

So who can you trust for a great enclosure that doesn't cost you the bank to buy either, and won't keep killing hard drivers?

THANKS
 
Did your fan quit working or was it attributed to something else?

I been using laptop externals for a while, and my mobile racks with 200GB WDs with no problems, because I perferred something convenient.

I had a HDD die unexpectedly in a external exclosure some time back, and that's when I started using mobile racks. Just pop one in and pop one out. Nothing to it.
 
The Vantec NexStar 3 - NST-360SU-BL doesn't have a fan.

http://www.vantecusa.com/product-storage.html#

Actually I'm going to keep the case, RMA the drive back then sale the drive and buy a WD instead, because chkddsk came back saying the drive had bad clusters, and this makes two seagates in a row that died on me.

I've never been a fan of Segates, all of them I have ever tried always end of dying.

But I'd still like to know what the possibilites are with enclosures, if they have been known to mess up drives.

ALOHA
 
But I'd still like to know what the possibilites are with enclosures, if they have been known to mess up drives.
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None that I know of other than the heat stress. I bought one of these. Two fans keeps it @ 40c all the time.
 
I've never heard of external enclosures (or associated chipsets) being a specific problem. You might want to check the rails on it, as there could be a power supply issue (which happens with regular internal PSUs, too).
 
I have the same HD enclosure as you, but with a WD 250GB SE16 and I have never had a problem. It might be the drives, not the enclosure.
 
No problems here. I have a Vantec NexStar 2 USB/FireWire and NexStar GX. The NexStar 2 has no cooling, just ventilation while the NexStar GX has both a heatsink that bolts to the drive and an exhaust (low/high speeds either auto/manual). Both drives have Maxtor IDE HDD's installed.
 
Originally posted by: jdkick
No problems here. I have a Vantec NexStar 2 USB/FireWire and NexStar GX. The NexStar 2 has no cooling, just ventilation while the NexStar GX has both a heatsink that bolts to the drive and an exhaust (low/high speeds either auto/manual). Both drives have Maxtor IDE HDD's installed.
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That NexStar GX looks pretty nice, but ever since getting my Coolermaster Praetorian 730 case, there is one thing I do know, Coolermaster makes great cases, and given that, since I noticed they make the X Craft enclosure, I'm going to give that one a try for now, and if it turns out I don't like it, then I'll give the NexStar GX a go.

ALOHA
 
There are a couple of things to watch out for: Some enclosures have ghastly thermal issues. Others don't spin the drive down properly when it is idle. Either of these faults can reduce(sometimes significantly) drive lifespan. Trouble is, enclosures often don't say whether they do this or not.
 
Originally posted by: phisrow
There are a couple of things to watch out for: Some enclosures have ghastly thermal issues. Others don't spin the drive down properly when it is idle. Either of these faults can reduce(sometimes significantly) drive lifespan. Trouble is, enclosures often don't say whether they do this or not.
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Well you'd think with companies like Vantec and Coolermaster they wouldn't be having these issues.

ALOHA
 
I bought a adaptec enclosure from Best Buy, and have had NO issues (Knocks on wood). But I when transfer large files and doing backups i have like a 3" deskfan blowing on it to keep it cool. I hate losing something due to heat.
 
I've had good experiences w/ Bytecc enclosures. One has lasted through 3 different hard drive upgrades.
 
I also have the Adaptec enclosure ( for the 2.5 inch drive ) and it is really good. I have transferred gig's of data and it has never gotten hot at all..

pcgeek11
 
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