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    Someone suggest some good (best) USB 3.0 enclosures

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by wild05kid05, Jan 30, 2012.

  1. wild05kid05

    wild05kid05 Cook Free or Die

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    I want to buy an enclosure with USB 3.0 for external HDD purpose. Can't seem to find any thing decent. There are bunch but I don't have a good feeling about reliability and performance. I want something that can get the most out of the HDD regardless of whether it's 5400 or 7200 RPM.
    Good housing would also be great hehe
     
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    Do you realise that usb3.0 has a theoretical bandwidth of 5gbps? that far exceeds by many times the fastest 7200rpm drive in the world. even SSD's aren't that fast.
    any usb3.0 enclosures will work the same with your hdd.

    that sir you have a very wide choice. I would recommend getting an aluminium due to much better heat dissipation, durability and protection. Beware that some aluminium ones often have very fragile plastic parts on the sides, avoid them at all cost.
    I would also avoid expensive ones because they are just overprice, they aren't faster and shouldn't be much better built then the most cheap ones. Sometimes you pay like 5 times because it just has a brand on it. Like apple stuff.
     
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    It remains to be seen of course, like 'Gigabit' adapters, how much the interface speed actually approaches wire speed.

    But nevertheless, just having your even 5400rpm drives on a USB3.0 interface can markedly improve transfer performance. e.g. my Seagate Goflex drives with the swappable interfaces go from 0.026Gb/sec (USB2) to 0.066Gb/sec (USB3) when transferring a large file.

    Some cheap ones are definitely lower-performance, so personally unlike __-_-_-__ I'd go for the middle of the road or 'expensive' ones.
     
    Vogelbung, Jan 31, 2012
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    Thanks for the info in here people.
    Relevant to my interests and upcoming purchases
     
    Drewtallica, Feb 3, 2012
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    This may be a silly question...but if you were to purchase one of these...would you want to purchase one with an eSATA connection or USB 3.0? Which would prove to be faster??
     
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  9. wild05kid05

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    USB 3.0 all the way and make sure your notebook has the port
     
    wild05kid05, Feb 4, 2012
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    They are pretty close performance wise usb 3.0 with maybe a slight edge, but usb devices have to use a transfer protocol to convert which increases latency. (esata is identical to internal sata no latency)
    If you dont have a usb3.0 port defintely get esata

    Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk
     
    Mechanized Menace, Feb 5, 2012
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    eSATA is faster as it natively uses the SATA bus.

    While USB signals needs to be converted increasing the overheads. Though USB devices is more versatile and convenient to have.
     
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    I know mine is ugly, but it uses only 1 cable with no external power required and is still VERY fast. 1 of the reasons I like it so much. And As I said, I have bought 3 and all three have been great. Plus it comes with backup software.
     
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    True they're not any faster, however, they are typically built more sturdier--as the cheap ones are very flimsy.

    I recommend an enclosure with a rubberized out shell (or ones with added bumpers), since all portable enclosures will most assuredly get dropped, bumped, jolted, etc.
     
    Krane, Feb 16, 2012
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