HDD and enclosures

CathJ

CathJ

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I've finally got my parents to consider a backup solution. What I'd like to do for them is get a laptop HDD and stick in an enclosure, creating an external drive but far cheaper.

I'm having a problem finding drives and enclosures, though - they don't need a big drive, 80Gb is more than enough, and it doesn't matter whether it's IDE or SATA. Except that the enclosure presumably has to match the drive? I can find cheap SATA drives, but the SATA enclosures are more expensive; or I can find expensive (and 120 Gb) IDE drives, but with cheaper enclosures.

Does anyone know where I can find cheap, matching drives and enclosures? I'm hoping to get away with something in the R500 to R600 range (and I may be pushing it here, but I'd like a Seagate drive so that I can use Disk Wizard for easy backups - if it's really simple to do, odds are they'll actually back up every now and then).
 
I bought a small KC21B case and a 80gb hdd (seagate iirc) from the local computer shop for the company downstairs. Nice thing about it is a single button that starts the backup.

Total cost was about r800.
 
Matrix has them for around R150 to R300 each. Want me to go price them for you?
 
I have a couple of these - they come in IDE and SATA. The enclosure doesn't have to match the drive in any other way that just having the same connector (IDE or SATA). Some notebook drives do have a master/slave setting, which you might have to set to master, but I've never had to.

I bought the first one of these from PC Internation in Randburg - can't remember the price but it wasn't expensive. They're pretty sturdy, made of metal, have solid connectors to plug the drive into, instead of the flimsy cables some enclosures come with.
 
Garyvdh said:
Matrix has them for around R150 to R300 each. Want me to go price them for you?
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That's okay, but thanks for the offer - it turns out that some of the cheaper enclosures I was looking at are actually SATA afterall, so that's fine :)
 
I got a Seagate FreeAgent Go 250GB for just over a grand. I think there's a 160GB model as well. Quite happy with it so far.
 
I have a Transcend SATA case with 120GB 5400 RPM drive in it for R400. Works with USB power only if you're interested.

Drive is brand new as it was taken out of an Asus laptop and replaced with a bigger drive.
 
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