esata 2.5" enclosure, please help me find

I want an 2.5" esata/usb enclosure, a cheap one that works, I don't care how it looks just how it performs. To be bought in europe, so no newegg etc.
The thing is that I want the power cable to be USB.


I don't want that kind of plug I want USB. There's such an enclosure? or are they all like this?

 

A lot of enclosures will have Y shaped leads - so two USB ports on the computer give it enough power to start up the hard drive. This does the same thing by taking one USB port as power only and the other USB port for information/data and power.

 

but how would esata work with a Y shaped usb leads?

 

That small coaxial plug is standard for power. The mini USB is for data when you are using USB instead of eSATA. The electronics might get confused if there were USB and eSATA data connections at the same time.

Here is one of the cheapest 2.5" enclosures with eSATA. It has a coaxial power plug.

John

 

the thing is that I don't want a coaxial plug for power. I want an usb plug for power. there is such an enclosure?

also, there's a difference between aluminium and plastic? built quality? will the plastic make the hdd more hot?

 

I've been buying the Coolmax enclosures, I'm not sure if you can get them in Europe but here is an example, maybe you can use the part number to look them up.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817159078

 

The coaxial plug draws power from a USB socket on the computer so there is no separate power required.

Metal enclosures are better for heat dissipation. However, if you get one of the recent HDDs you can get a maximum power consumption of about 2.5W (see here) and heat will not be a problem.

John

 

yes I known all that. I'm not making myself clear.
I just don't want a coaxial cable. I want that the coaxial part to be a USB instead. I don't want the tip of the cable to be coaxial. I want it to be usb.
I'm always losing stuff and I would eventually lose the cable. I've many usb cables everywhere though. not to mention it's more environmental friendly and if I need I can plug a longer usb cable to a usb wall outlet. and I wouldn't have to carry many cables at the same time.
The Y cables can do the work too if I just plug the power usb and not the data one.

 

Does the enclosure have to be esata? If not you have plenty of options.
Is esata really that much faster than usb 2.0?

 

Your looking for an 2.5" eSata to USB case like the WD Passport style?

 

yes it has to be esata and yes it's much faster. I dunno what you say by "WD Pasport style". I don't care about the style.
I didn't found anything yet except for some with a Y usb cable.

 

with any half decent hard drive, esata is easily 2x faster in terms of transfer speed than USB, in some cases 3x faster.

 

Have you looked at the available products from WD and Seagate? These are ESATA drives with a USB interface. You said you wanted a USB cable in several posts. My WD and Seagate drives come with the single USB connector. I'll pull them apart and use a drive dock if I want true eSata speeds for mega transfers.

Oddly only a few third party (Roswell) makes cases that support USB and eSata in the 2.5" format so I wonder about any power issues with them.

 

I have a hd3-su2s2 2.5" enclosure and it works with eSata using only the mini USB connection for power. When an eSata cable is plugged into the back of the drive enclosure it uses pin 7, which is normally a ground connection, as a sense pin. Pins 1,4 & 7 are commoned through the cable. This way it defaults to eSata when both eSata and USB data connections are available.

Whether other enclosures use this method or not, I don't know. Also if you personally will have enough power to spin the drive up through one USB connection is something you will have to answer yourself.

One thing I did notice was although the drive is sata 2 and the enclosure is supposed to be also, the link is negotiated as sata 1. Not a big deal for the drive I have though.