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Looking for External HD enclosure advice
Specifics would be: I have a 500 GB SATA drive that is in perfect shape after the f$%#$ing Western Digital MyBook enclosure died. I did the easier thing - tossed the junker enclosure (who would seriously want another one?) and kept the drive - and would like to use it once more.
I built both of my main systems in 2001, and these motherboards have never heard of SATA or PCEI.
What made things more difficult was that my 80 GB IDE that was not that old (4-5? years maybe) dying just days the mybook. Needless to say losing 580 GB or so of available space was not pleasant. Fortunately I was bit leery of the external drive and had only used 40 GB on it; using more would be no problem at all if I had more faith in it.
What I am looking for now is a solid enclosure that will power down when inactive (not after two minutes either like the idiotic MyBook did) and not overheat or otherwise prematurely shorten the enclosed HD lifespan.
I was looking at newegg but would appreciate some "real life" advice or hearing about experiences good or otherwise here.
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