external USB drive recs (Re: [ILUG] OT: mirroring an external drive)

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:50:42PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Justin Mason thought:
> 
> So anyway, I now suspect the USB HD enclosure, probably it's failing to
> provide adequate cooling.  So I want to replace that. Can anyone recommend
> a reliable enclosure for plain old PATA -> USB2?  Low power consumption
> is pretty important fwiw, and I of course already have a disk to put
> in it...

Marx computers used to do an 'icy box' USB enclosure though it would get
pretty hot.  I use a 'mobile rack IDE cage'
http://www.marxcomputers.ie/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi?product=HD_access
for my backup drive.  Not hot-swapable though, power down, insert the
drive, power up.  That's fine for my sporadic backups at home thus far.

Conor
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