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The system does not seem to get more than slightly warm.I am glad I bought this thing-- it made transferring 10,000 photos as easy at it possibly could have been. There is a small stand that permits the enclosure to sit on its side, and it is very stable in this configuration. I bought this USB hard drive enclosure as an easy and fast way to transfer lots of files from my old computer to my new one.The process is extremely simple: I pulled the drive out of my old machine; put the drive into the Rocketfish drive tray (two cables and 4 screws to hold the drive firmly in place); put the tray/drive assembly into the enclosure and screwed the lid down.That's it.The drive was immediately recognized as "Local Disk (G:)" on my Windows Vista System. (It also recognized "SYSTEM_SAV(H:)" which I assume is the boot volume on the drive).The enclosure is attractive and well-made, consisting of a red,finned, aluminum chassis with glossy black side panels.
I bought it from "nansbooksnmore" as open box item.Great Design - anodized aluminum look real cool and it dissipates heat very well.
Of all my external hard drive problems the problems as always been a bad firewire connection or something like that. The computer pros were suggesting data recovery costing over a thousand dollars. The drives have always been okay so give this a try before taking any super expensive measures. When my Maxtor drive broke it was once again due to the connections and not the drive itself. I took the drive out plugged it into a this enclosure and got all the information safe and sound.
Works just as it should :) great, cheap way of backing up your huge pic/music/movie files.
With the Rocketfish design, you have large Allen key (hex) bolts in the corners. You wouldn't put it in the stand oriented in that direction with the connectors on top. REMEMBER this drive enclosure is for older EIDE/ATA drives (lots of pins) rather than the newer SATA drives (small connector). I've used a lot of different brands of external drive enclosures and this one is by far the best. Most if not all desktop computers sold now are using SATA drives inside. So not only does it look real cool, it dissipates heat very well.The picture of the enclosure here is kind of odd. I'm not sure if Rocketfish makes this same style enclosure for SATA drives.
The bottoms of the bolts have little rubber feet that help the drive run as silently as possible. If you're upgrading the drive in your desktop computer, don't waste the old drive, just throw it in one of these enclosures and use it as a backup. I have several of these Rocketfish drive enclosures (including the smaller 2.5" size), and they have worked flawlessly for me. The drives also stack really well if you have more than one. A cool blue light shows when the drive is in use.
It seems that so many drive enclosures for 3.5" drives are designed to be difficult to open an close. You'd either put it on its side or as I prefer, flat on the deskFor anyone with Windows XP or Vista, the drives are plug & play. The red part of the drive (with all the fins) is anodized aluminum. These are stronger and much easier to use than the hardware of other enclosures. The drive kit comes with an honest-to-goodness user's manual and the 4 foot USB cable is plently long.
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