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    Reliable usb hard drive external enclosure 2.5"?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by pufftissue, Nov 19, 2010.

  1. pufftissue

    pufftissue Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi,

    I've bought 2 $9.95 usb 2.0 enclosures, vantec and meritline, and they just don't connect reliably with my macbook pro. Are these chipsets all the same, or are they made too fragile? Because after a few months, they disconnect from my laptop in the middle of file transfers, etc. I don't believe that it's my hard drive that's the problem.

    What model #s and brands are known to be reliable? Do I need to get a rugged hard drive enclousre? Is there any rugged enclosure besides LaCie? They are so expensive.

    Thanks!
     
    pufftissue, Nov 19, 2010
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  2. stamar

    stamar Notebook Prophet

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    I think the apriteck (sp) is a reliable one
     
    stamar, Nov 19, 2010
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  3. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Because they are 10 dollar enclosures. You aren't going to get platinum coated enclosure for 10 bucks mate. Now I've never had a problem with Vantec enclosures, in fact I have a ton of 10-20 dollar ones, used on a Mac and PC. Never had a problem. How old is your MBP? Something might be up with your USB ports? Some laptops don't have enough on 5v rail to power all USB devices.
     
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  5. Nankuru

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    Older Macbooks are notorious for not supplying enough power through USB so that might be your problem.

    Have you tried these enclosures on other laptops or powered the with a Y cable or external power supply?
     
    Nankuru, Nov 19, 2010
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  7. Judicator

    Judicator Judged and found wanting.

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    I think by "stand up" they mean along the slightly concave long end, as they guy in the video does near the end.
     
    Judicator, Nov 19, 2010
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