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timmmay

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#14065 13-Jun-2007 11:29
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I generate a reasonable amount of data, 350GB/year or so as a photographer, so I have about 6 hard drives with half of them kept offsite. Is there a drive enclosure that's easy to get a 3.5" SATA disk in and out?

Alternately is there anything like a drive bay so I can just plug the power and SATA cords into the drive, do my backup, then unplug and put back into storage? Just trying to find a reasonably priced long term workable solution

TIA :)

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  #75031 18-Jun-2007 15:37
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You'll be wanting E-SATA, the drive comes with a pci card that has the external sata connector on it.. its fast and the price per gig is not too bad.

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  #75038 18-Jun-2007 15:53
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You have to buy an ESATA card yourself, like this one

http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=354417


I just went with a Seagate hard drive in a standard USB enclosure, though the enclosure has ESATA which I can always use later if I feel like it.

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