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Good external hard drive enclosure with esata cable?
I’ve had two of these enclosures.
It’s convenient because you can just turn the lock on the front and open it when I want to switch hard drives, but the problem is that the door and locking mechanisms are flimsy, and I’ve already had two break.
I can’t seem to find many external enclosures that are easy to open, though. Most require you to unscrew them to take out a hard drive, but I want to be able to have one enclosure that I can swap hard drives with. Any ideas?
I also have one that (unfortunately) has four screws keeping the hard drive in that I use to back everything up on USB 3.0, but I don’t change that one out much.
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Why do it the hard way? I use an external dock with bare drives. The dock has USB3 and eSATA ports and is plenty fast to edit HDV footage.
Anytime I need to work on a project, I just grab the disk for that project:
Here’s a short batch file that makes the external drive look like Drive B: in Windows. This is handy to guarantee that the external drive will always be Drive B: and you don’t have to worry about Windows assigning a different drive letter from the first time you used it. Just put the bat file in the root of the external drive, and run it.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Pfft. Opening and closing that enclosure was pretty easy as it is. It’s just so cheap that the same part, where the door locks, has broken on two of them. Now I can’t even get the hard drive out without ripping the whole thing up, since there’s no way to disassemble it. The other won’t even lock shut now.
But I’ll probably get this. I guess I thought a dock was more expensive. I always assign my editing hard drives as F and almost never have problems with that. The almost being when it occasionally switched up the assigned letter to the drive possibly because I turned on my back up hard drive first, then the main one, but that was rare and doesn’t seem to happen now. Thanks.
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