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Am Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 12:45:20PM -0500 schrieb Dale: |
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> My next project, find a good external drive enclosure like the three I |
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> got now. They no longer available tho. I like them because they have a |
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> fan, a eSATA port and a nifty display to let me know things are |
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> working. Really a good price for the features. I don't like USB |
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> connected drives. Long story. |
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How about a table-top dock? |
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- no cable salad, caused by each enclosure having its own power supply and |
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data cable |
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- disks are used “naked”, so no heat buildup and you are more flexible |
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Here are some models with eSATA: |
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https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=hddocks&xf=4426_eSATA |
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And one of them even has four slots → even fewer cables. |
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That’s of course if you use the disks intermittently and store them away |
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inbetween. If you plan on running them for longer durations at a time, it |
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may be better to use a proper enclosure, in order to protect the disks from |
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physical influences (impacts, short-circuits). Also, those SATA connectors |
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are not designed to be connected often. I think I read about 50 cycles |
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somewhere. |
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Grüße | Greetings | Salut | Qapla’ |
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