[ale] USB disk enclosures?

[Calvin Harrigan]

I've had mixed to poor luck with Rosewill.
Vantec has been much more reliable and stable in my experience.
They are only slightly more expensive.  I've had a couple Nexstar CXs 
for several years now.  There is no active cooling.
The drives are attached directly to the aluminum case for heat dissipation.


On 12/18/2017 3:38 PM, Raj Wurttemberg via Ale wrote:
> I know USB enclosures are cheap but aside from cost... Would an inexpensive
> maybe... 2-bay NAS (QNAP, Synology, etc...) be a viable option? I've been
> installing the QNAP 2-bay TS-253A for some SMBs and they have been loving
> them! They do nightly snapshot backups and I'm using the Real Time Remote
> Replication (RTRR) feature for DR backups to my larger QNAP.  It's a
> completely automated process.  I check on the backups and RTRR backup jobs
> every now any then but that's about it.
>
> /Raj
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ale [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Leam Hall via Ale
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 5:00 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: [ale] USB disk enclosures?
>
> I've bought a couple Rosewill enclosures and usually things have gone okay.
> Then one came with a noisy fan. I contacted Rosewill and offered to make it
> easy, I'd replace the fan myself. Eventually they sent me a replacement fan
> that didn't work at all. Contacted them again and they said send them the
> enclosure, they'd look at it for 2-5 days, and if it was their fault send me
> another.
>
> Of course that means backups to that drive would be unavailable for 2-3
> weeks. If their Customer Support had been supportive I'd stick with them. It
> felt like they wanted me to be glad they answered the e-mails within a
> couple days.
>
> So I find myself looking for a new enclosure brand. Any suggestions? I need
> something that can handle the 4-8 TB range WD Red 3.5 inch disks.
>
> Leam
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