{"id":24,"date":"2007-05-25T22:48:38","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T04:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tkseminars.com\/site\/?p=24"},"modified":"2007-08-30T14:56:51","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T20:56:51","slug":"a-smart-enclosure-for-your-hard-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tkseminars.com\/site\/2007\/05\/25\/a-smart-enclosure-for-your-hard-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"A Smart Enclosure for your Hard Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been searching far and wide for a &#8220;smart&#8221; way to store and easily access archived data.  In the past few years most of my data has been stored on 3.5&#8243; internal hard drives and I&#8217;ve been using an enclosure made by Vantec called the EZ-Swap.  Great product on serveral accounts &#8211; the most interesting being (1) locking on\/off mechanism, (2) fan, temperature and disk hours usage information, and (3) lower cost.  The downfall of the Vantec enclosure for me : (1) doesn&#8217;t fit in any standard external 5.25&#8243; enclosure &#8211; the back is too big!  Until recently this wasn&#8217;t a problem since the enclosure was mounted internally on my PC or a large chassis with room enough for the back.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, I&#8217;ve *finally* found THE solution for this problem &#8211; the IcyDock External Rack.  Interestingly enough, the IcyDock uses the SAME tray enclosure as the Vantec or visa versa ( I can&#8217;t tell who makes the original product, or if even a third vendor supplies these to IcyDock and Vantec ).  The nice thing about this fact is that all of my IDE-based Vantec drives will fit into the IcyDock enclosure without me having to buy a new tray.  The cooler thing is now I have the freedom to move to SATA drives, which are faster, more reliable and cheaper than their aging IDE\/ATA brethren!<\/p>\n<p>Way to go IcyDock!  Thanks for building a smart enclosure for my archives &#8211; and my existing Vantec tray enclosures to boot!<\/p>\n<p>Check out the IcyDock review that tipped me off here :<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IcyDock MB452 eSATA\/USB2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure Review - PCSTATS.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcstats.com\/articleview.cfm?articleID=2072\">IcyDock MB452 eSATA\/USB2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure Review &#8211; PCSTATS.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been searching far and wide for a &#8220;smart&#8221; way to store and easily access archived data. In the past few years most of my data has been stored on 3.5&#8243; internal hard drives and I&#8217;ve been using an enclosure made by Vantec called the EZ-Swap. Great product on serveral accounts &#8211; the most interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fyi","category-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tkseminars.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tkseminars.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tkseminars.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tkseminars.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tkseminars.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tkseminars.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tkseminars.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tkseminars.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tkseminars.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}