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 Well made, well designed, and works beautifully April 30, 2009
Jonathan Birge (Cambridge, MA)
50 out of 51 found this review helpful
After seeing some very poor reviews to the $10 and $15 enclosures, I decided I'd "splurge" and see if $20 could buy you a good drive enclosure. I'm glad I did. Unlike the plastic enclosures, this model uses a very well-designed aluminum case, which will withstand repeated installations. It also looks great, as a bonus, and appears to do a very good job dissipating heat. (You can tell this because the enclosure gets slightly warm to the touch. Contrary to popular belief, if something feels warm, that actually means it's doing a good job of pulling the heat out of whatever is inside it and letting it flow to the air. That's why heatsinks get hot, and why styrofoam cups don't.)
Internally, the printed circuit board (PCB) takes up the entire length of the enclosure, and the drive is screwed on to it. This is much more stable and rugged than the cheap enclosures, where the drive simply gets shoved in the enclosure and attached to a small PCB at the back.
An additional benefit you won't find on other, cheaper, enclosures is that an eSATA interface is offered, allowing for high transfer speeds if your computer can support this.
The only problem I encountered was that the manual was completely incorrect in its diagram of how to install the drive, and must be referring to a previous generation. Other than that, I have nothing but good things to say about this product.
Nice enclosure; eSATA works as advertised. June 10, 2009
Charles Chen (East Windsor, NJ)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
First of all, the enclosure works; that's always a bonus ;) I replaced my stock 80 GB 7200 RPM drive in my Dell E6400 and threw it into this enclosure. Worked fine with just one USB connector. When I got my eSATA cable (see my reviews), it connected right up and it worked perfectly with my Vista Business x64 install on my Dell E6400; no settings changes, no configuration, just worked. The eSATA cable fit nice and snugly into the connector and the connection feels pretty secure.
I verified that it was using eSATA using DiskBench and got transfer rates around 55-60MB/s for a 1 GB file. Solid. Dramatically improved my virtual machine load and save times.
Secondly, as a bonus, it's a very attractive case. It's relatively slim in profile (barely larger than the disk itself). The ends are plastic, but the core is anodized aluminum. The only way this could be better is if it came with some rubber feet or some rubber end caps or something to keep it from sliding around.
I would definitely recommend this if you are looking for an eSATA capable enclosure.
Perfect for recovering data from a hdd, easy setup, works fine, and looks good. June 22, 2009
Zoggo (In the Sun, Florida)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
My HP dv9500 laptop just stopped working, no warning...no chance to recover any files....I had backed up lots of stuff on cd's...but not iTunes library and my CD collection and lots of jpgs...empty feeling in the stomach.....fast forward 2 weeks....Blue Tango Portable Enclosure Kit to the rescue. It was expensive to recover data from HDD ......so I just removed them from the broken laptop.
I read the Amazon reviews, and was skeptical of the cheap USB enclosures, but this enclosure got a good review and was only $20 with the bonus eSATA interface......so I ordered it Friday from Amazon prime....and it was delivered Monday 1:00pm.....Amazon rules.
First off, the manual does not describe how to install the drive...it has diagrams, which could be clearer, but just follow them best you can and fill in the blanks. The enclosure was well made, all aluminum, metal end caps, the screws fitted well, and it looks kind of stylish in blue. Installing the hdd was a breeze, place hdd on backplane and push into connector, and secure to the (pcb) with 4 screws.....push the backplane back into housing (making sure to locate backplane in slides), replace end cap and tighten 2 screws. The housing holds the hdd securely...the connectors fit well....so I guess you could carry this around with a laptop.....but remember it doesn't have any shock protection.
Connected the USB....it recognized the drive immediately loaded drivers and explorer opened my old hdd....with all my files accessible......great..... I connected using a single USB connector (2nd USB not required).....I didn't measure the time but it found all the files (110GB) in several minutes. I will connect with the eSATA interface when I get around to purchasing a connector cable (eSATA cable not included in box..pity).
This housing and USB/eSATA enclosure is recommended, it works perfectly for recovering my data, and I will format the hdd as a spare backup.
Great for a ps3 October 13, 2009
Phillip Redding
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
So i had bought a 500 gb harddrive so i could put all of my movies on my ps3. So i did the installation of that, and afterwards decided to buy an enclosure for the 40gb that was used in it originally. Best buy wanted 70 dollars for one probably not as good as this one. It took me less than 5 minutes to set it up. The harddrive is completely secure so you dont have to worry about the harddrive being damaged from moving around inside. I formatted it fat 32 (ms-dos fat for macs) and put most of my tv shows on it. I would buy another enclosure by this maker in a heartbeat. Good product.
Does a great job as designed! November 22, 2009
P. Cassidy (Florida, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I installed a WD250gbScorpioBlue drive into one of these nicely compacted drive storage housing. It works beautifully from the start. I do recommend this to anyone that needs a good well designed storage housing.
What I learned: just a few observations of general interest. Firstly it does not include an ESATA cable so if you don't already have one then you will need it. I find the three foot length to be useful for this unit. To have ESATA you need to plug in both cables so the usb becomes the power supply. I discovered that not all the USB will work. If I use the USB2.0 slots and ESATA port on the back of my system everything runs just wonderfully! BUT I can't do that in the front. Only the USB works in the front. On my laptop I only have USB and it is flawless and so great to have in the same briefcase as my Thinkpad. This whole thing is light and tiny a great addition for the road kit.
My older PC also had issues but I used the rear USB it worked but the front do not operate the unit. I suspect that the unit is USB2.0 standard only and any 1.5 USB ports will not work properly. For clarity I think I should point out that the USB ports on the three systems mention all work with my other equipment. It is this system that I had to find the right port first, after that the speed, silence, heat reduction are all fantastic with the Scorpio Blue 250gb drive. If you get this drive do yourself a huge favor download the support software from Western Digital it makes chores as simple as they could be.
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