Q: Whats the best enclosure for installing all my old Disk Drives - at least 4?

Hi, I am looking for ideas how to take advantage of all my old hard drives laying around, some form old computers, (2 from an old Mac Pro) some from failed enclosures (two from a Westeren Digital that I triend to upgrade the Firmwaare), etc. Thinking the Drobo, but it is pretty expensive, and I have heard mixed results.

Posted on Sep 15, 2013 12:02 PM

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by Allan Jones,

Allan Jones Sep 15, 2013 2:33 PM in response to nolenkw
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Sep 15, 2013 2:33 PM in response to nolenkw

I've have great service from OWC external enclosures, albeit with singe-drive models. Are all the drives you Have SATA? It's getting hard to find enclosures that accept PATA drives any more.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/

I had a bad WD enclosure that was nothing but trouble. I puled the drive from the enclosure and put it in an OWC encl and it works perfectly.
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by dalstott,

dalstott Sep 16, 2013 1:56 PM in response to nolenkw
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Sep 16, 2013 1:56 PM in response to nolenkw

If you don't want to bother with enclosures get an adapter or dock. It is as simple as plug and play.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/NewerTech/Voyager/Hard_Drive_Dock

http://eshop.macsales.com/search/universal+drive+adapter
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