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Sabrent 3.5" USB 2.0 Aluminum Hard Drive External Enclosure Case - Silver

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Item Number: M501-1184
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Reuse your Old 3.5" IDE Hard Drives as External Storage.
Presenting the classic micro size external 3.5" HD enclosure -- one of the smallest in 3.5" HD enclosure in the world. Come with highly recommended USB 2.0 interface, transfer and back up file up to 480Mbps. Durable Aluminum enclosure design offer high rigidity for shock and excellent heat dispersing.

Transfer data quickly and easily, anywhere with this great external hard drive case! The USB 2.0 interface allows for data transfer rates up to 480Mbps. The easy to use design allows for quick installation of 3.5-inch hard drives.

This enclosure provides a fast and easy way to add more storage space to your Desktop or Notebook -- you can assemble any 3.5" IDE Hard disk capacity to your needs. Although the USB 2.0 interface allows you to read and write large file up to 480mbit per second, this device is also backward compatible to the USB 1.1 specification. This product is ideal for personal back up device with a large space provided from Hard Disk. Any old 3.5" IDE Hard Drive can be reused as a perfect external storage device.


Specifications

  Enclosure Type:  3.5"
  Compatible Drives:  3.5" Hard Drives
  Drive Interface:  IDE
  Enclosure Interface:  USB 2.0
  USB 2.0 Transfer Rate:  480 Mbps
Detailed Features

Features

  • Ultra Light Aluminum Case
  • USB 2.0 interface via standard USB 2.0 A-Male to B-Male cable (included in package)
  • LED indicates Power and Action status.
  • ON/OFF switch to shut down hard drive when inactive without having to disconnect.
  • Easy assembly without Screws
  • Includes Stand for positioning enclosure upright
  • Supports 480Mbps high-speed data transfers
  • Supports Wakeup ability
  • Hot-swappable
Latest Owner Reviews

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REVIEW BY: DCL Linux Reviewed  Apr 18, 2008
It works fell for $20, but is cheaply made and after switching HDDs a couple times the power connector broke. It works fine on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

REVIEW BY: Blindman Reviewed  Apr 14, 2008
the enclosure was well built and I was able to install my old harddrive into it with very little trouble. Works as advertised and was very happy with the interface and ease of operation. I would suggest this product for anyone that had an old drive or even a extra drive they wanted to use as an external drive it is well worth the price.

REVIEW BY:  Reviewed  Feb 20, 2008
The product only worked for about 15 minutes. It got WAY hot then quit. I did get a $19.99 refund instead of the replacement that I asked for... However, I lost $14.89 in shipping charges (to and from) though.... :-(

REVIEW BY: jjj Reviewed  Dec 04, 2007
Product is good, but it is a very snug fit. make sure your hard drive is set as master because then it wont recgonize on the computer. overall a great product

REVIEW BY: none Reviewed  Dec 04, 2007
Very nice product so far. Used about a week and works perfectly. I installed a 200 gig drive and have had no difficulty with the unit. Windows Vista picked it up right away. No drivers needed. The switch and lights on the front work great. No overheating so far with the lack of a fan.
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What You Should Know
Even The Best Hard Drives Die.  Do You Back Up?
Businesses of all sizes are witnessing an explosion in the volume of data they hold. Whether it is the result of the Internet, email, or increasingly heavy and media-rich application software, there is a massive growth in the volume of data all around. Conservative estimates place data growth at approximately 80% per year. Data is increasingly being recognized as one of the real assets of a company, and losing this data would cause severe damage to any organization.

Data loss can be very costly, particularly for organizations in the small and medium business (SMB) market where the difference between survival and closure can rest on the ability to recover from a disaster. At the very least, critical data loss will have a financial impact on companies of all sizes:

Data type Time to re-create 20 MB Cost
Sales and marketing 19 days $17,000
Accounting 21 days $19,000
Engineering 42 days $98,000

The financial impact on a company is a combination of loss of business, low productivity, legal action, and the cost of re-creating data. A study showed that the cost of re-creating just 20 MB of data can be extensive!

Your best solution, is an external drive as a backup.  You can have multiple drives, and it is much easier restore from a portable external drive, as opposed to CDs or DVDs.

Why Do I Have Less Drive Space?
Your hard drive may show less space than the published specifications due to a number of reasons.
  1. The way size is calculated and displayed.
  2. Any "Partitions" on the disk will change the total in a specific partition.
  3. Hidden files and folders decrease available space.
  4. Compression increases the apparent size, but not the physical size.
  5. Drives larger than the OS or Drivers natively supports.

First, the definition of a megabytes (or gigabytes) is a unit of data storage capacity measured in 1,048,576 bytes (or 1024KB). The larger the numbers, the more apparent the size difference will be when listing the size as megabytes (or gigabytes) versus bytes. Actually, both numbers are correct. The noticeable difference is due to the 1024KB definition of a megabyte. This is why a 95.3GB hard drive can also be listed as having 102 billion bytes of total space.  Just think of it as "round off"  In the screen shot at right: The first number is the total number of bytes, the second number is based on the number of megabytes or gigabytes.

Second, some computers have a non-DOS hard drive partition that is used for features such as Save to Disk, Hibernation, or Recovery. This partition is not normally reported by the operating system, although it can be viewed using a disk partition utility.  This is very common on desktops and laptops.  NOTE: Partition information will be created or formatted automatically during initial system setup and a system recovery.

Third, by default, all system files are hidden and cannot be seen. This may adversely affect the reporting of available hard drive space. You can set your Folder Options so you view system and hidden files and folders, but do be careful as changes to system files can adversely affect your system.

Fourth, if you turn on Compression for a drive, it will increase reported free space and used space, but since compression is based upon the actual contents, this number is not fixed, but will change as files are added or changed.

Fifth, older operating systems did not support some of today's larger drives, so the total space reported may be much smaller than the drive specifications.

It is also worth noting that bad sectors are corrected by your operating system and can change the total drive space, free space, or used space as well.

So as long as a drive is reporting a value approximately close to the specification value, you can be comfortable that you received the right drive and that you are getting to correct data storage.  Of course, tuning of your drive's partitions and options can yield optimal values, but this is not something for the average user to explore.

Limited Warranty

This Item's Warranty is:
-  12 Months Parts
-  12 Months Labor
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Sabrent 3.5" USB 2.0 Aluminum Hard Drive External Enclosure Case - Silver
  $19.99
Manufactured by: Sabrent
Mfg Part No: ECS-U35S
UPC No: 188218000163
Box Size: ( Length: 10, Width: 3, Depth: 7 )
Shipping Weight: 1.6000 pound(s)
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