[Novalug] Recommend a good SATA external drive enclosure?

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

I will not buy one of those enclosures without a fan -- at any one time
there are very few like that and they keep changing.  I found one at
Tiger direct which says its a trayless one, so I have just ordered
that.  None of the ones which come with a drive already in the enclosure
seem to have fans.

Igor Birman <igor_birman at yahoo.com> wrote:

> They pretty much all suck - the power supplies on them just aren't great.  Sometimes they work fine for years and sometimes they don't.
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> We have good luck with the Western Digital Passport drives - If Western Digital sold enclosures I would buy them..
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> Igor
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> From: Miles D. Oliver <miles.d.oliver at gmail.com>
> To: Novalug LUG <Novalug at calypso.tux.org>
> Sent: Fri, November 27, 2009 6:59:31 AM
> Subject: [Novalug] Recommend a good SATA external drive enclosure?
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> Several months ago I bought from Costco a 160GB 'Simpletech' external HD.
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> Nothing elaborate, just to be able to transfer data around from home/work and such. I didn't want to spend a lot of money at the time and this filled my needs.
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> A few days ago the drive stopped being recognized.   
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> Reluctantly I cracked the case and hooked up the drive with SATA cables to my desktop and the drive is fine.  
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> The circuit board for the enclosure is shot.
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> I want to continue to have this drive for its intended purpose so I guess I need to hunt another enclosure.  Probably more trouble than its worth to try and see if the circuit board is replaceable from Simpletech
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> Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced external hard drive enclosure that will just do USB 2.0?
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> I see lots of them advertised but don't want a repeat performance of the enclosure I have.
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