- Preferences for external enclosures?
- Posted by Rod Speed on August 28th, 2006
Andrew J. Rozsa <rozsa@usa.invalid> wrote:
I prefer eSATA, mainly because SMART works with that and doesnt with the others.
Yeah, the decent ones arent that cheap.
- Posted by louise on August 28th, 2006
I'm using a Rosewill from Newegg - aluminum and although it
has no fan, the heat dissipates pretty well. However, I
never run it for more than an hour or two since I use it as
a backup image drive for Ghost.
I also backup with Retrospect on a nightly basis. I've been
using an external seagate (not enclosed but the full usb
drive). It never gets hot even though I often leave it
running overnight.
Louise
Rod Speed wrote:
- Posted by Tony on August 29th, 2006
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:06:50 +1000, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
Out of curiosity I looked at the Adaptec USB 2.0 Hard Drive Enclosure.
I was rather surprised to see that they are fanless? Is this usual for
the external cases?
Thanks.
- Posted by Rod Speed on August 29th, 2006
Tony wrote
Yep, and the main reason they are problematical too.
Non trivial to get a decent drive temp with a fanless enclosure.
- Posted by Neill Massello on August 29th, 2006
<Tony> wrote:
It's the current fad for single-drive enclosures. The better ones have
ventilation grilles front and back. IMHO, a metal encosure that relies
solely on conduction (no vents) will not provide enough cooling for some
of the hotter 3.5 inch 7200rpm drives (think Seagate) if they are
actively used for more than about 30 minutes at a time.
