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General Zod wrote:There's also Iomega, and maybe a few other smaller companies but for the most part these are the main big groups for hard disks.

Kind of curious if you buy an off brand external hard drive, who actually built the hard drive which is in there.

Got the hard drive and the enclosure and everything seems to work real well.

Surprised just how long it took to format the hard drive through the USB

phongn wrote:

Dominus Atheos wrote:A wood enclosure would run a serious risk of catching on fire.

Not necessarily.

I'v got a dieing 1st gen 750gb 7200.11 Seagate which I use in a portable which heats upto 55C if left running for too long under load. I'm worried about the damn thing cooking itself to use it for too long.

Kitsune wrote:Got the hard drive and the enclosure and everything seems to work real well.

Surprised just how long it took to format the hard drive through the USB

Please tell me you didn't get an enclosure with just USB support. You really want Firewire and/or eSata support because it makes for transferring large files (or a lot of small files) so much faster, and have USB just as a backup. The sustained rates for USB 2.0 are significantly lower than that of Firewire, as USB can only burst up to 480MB/s. Firewire can actually sustain it's top speed of 400MB/s.

Braedley wrote:Please tell me you didn't get an enclosure with just USB support. You really want Firewire and/or eSata support because it makes for transferring large files (or a lot of small files) so much faster, and have USB just as a backup. The sustained rates for USB 2.0 are significantly lower than that of Firewire, as USB can only burst up to 480MB/s. Firewire can actually sustain it's top speed of 400MB/s.

Well, live and learn....It is meant for my laptop anyway for additional storage

Besides, I have a bit older hardware than most of the people have here.....None of it has external SATA or Firewire Support.