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| phobos wrote: Those ones are metal, they don't squish in when pressed like some caddies do. | |
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I have an Akasa Integral - very sturdy
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Good 2.5" external caddy |
As I'm going to be doing a HD swap on a friends laptop, I've suggested he gets a 2.5" caddy for the 100GB drive we're swapping. Anyone got a recommendation? Bus powered would be nice. |
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| Author: | phobos [ Mon Nov 09, 2009 3:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Good 2.5" external caddy |
All 2.5HDD caddies should be bus powered really. Is it IDE or SATA ? If its IDE, PC World (don't panic) do the Akasa one as cheap as anyone. |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Good 2.5" external caddy |
Cheers, it's a SATA drive. Would like something reasonably robust that's going to survive being knocked about on a commute. |
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| Author: | phobos [ Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Good 2.5" external caddy |
Those ones are metal, they don't squish in when pressed like some caddies do. |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:49 pm ] | |||||||||
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I have an Akasa Integral - very sturdy
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| Author: | saspro [ Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Good 2.5" external caddy |
I've got an icybox one and it's as hard as nails |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Good 2.5" external caddy |
Cool, thanks fellas, I'll look at Icybox (I have a 3.5" IDE FW enclosure of theirs and I like it) and Akasa then. 
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| Author: | Nick [ Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:45 pm ] | |||||||||
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I've got an icybox too and it's rock solid! Metal the whole way round, and far too many screws!! |
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| Author: | saspro [ Mon Nov 16, 2009 3:52 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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? I don't think I had any screws on mine |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Mon Nov 16, 2009 4:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Good 2.5" external caddy |
It's just arrived today - went for a slightly cheaper one from eBuyer. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/149268 2 screws that locate the drive interface, nice tough metal enclosure, plastic end caps. I think it'll be ok. If not, it's hardly much to replace if it does give up the ghost. |
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