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Western Digital or Seagate
megido-rev.M:
I am one of those other users BTW :). If it didn't have such an odd AC adapter I would have gotten another Elements myself.
Dhruv:
Odd adaptor? I'll have to see about that. Is Elements good in your opinion?
And yes before I forget the enclosures I mentioned above... All of them are made of aluminum but only the first one has a fan. It has some screws too so opening it would be a bit bothersome. I wonder if they deliver in India...
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on September 01, 2012, 07:15:46 PM ---You're still going at this I see.
Anyway, why are you considering a docking station, after that thread about them killing drives?
If you really need an enclosure search for something that is
- made of metal (e.g. aluminum)
- supports the drive's 6Gbps in its SATA interface
I still don't really recommend it myself though, as the USB 2.0 interface pretty much cuts the benefits of the Black anyway.
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SATA III/6Gbps support is far less important than USB 3.0 support. Only the fastest hard drives are able to saturate SATA I/1.5Gbps bandwidth - SATA III/6Gbps is a joke on a conventional hard drive, especially if used mainly for large data transfers as opposed to small files (which may sit in the cache).
megido-rev.M:
^ Yeah, the supported USB speed is definitely critical for USB enclosures. And I believe you're right about the SATA bandwidth not being the bottleneck for HDDs: error on my part.
--- Quote from: Dhruv on September 02, 2012, 04:59:26 AM ---Odd adaptor? I'll have to see about that. Is Elements good in your opinion?
And yes before I forget the enclosures I mentioned above... All of them are made of aluminum but only the first one has a fan. It has some screws too so opening it would be a bit bothersome. I wonder if they deliver in India...
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I mean the shape of the adapter: it would cover 2 plugs space on the surge protector, which I can't really spare.
Dhruv:
Everything throws me into a fix... I thought finally i was closing in on making a decision but now this.
1. Elements has an unusual adapter.
2. Dunno if the enclosures for black i have in mind are good or not.
Pfft.
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