Comments on: Hard-Won Information on Editing with USB

By: DosFreak

DosFreak — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:50:13 +0000

I agree with the above post.

I bought 6 of the Venus DS3’s with 6 750GB Seagate HD’s. So far 3 Seagate drives have failed so I switched back to reliable Western Digital Drives.

The new Green 1TB WD drives are also ALOT cooler than the 750GB drives I was using with these enclosures.

There are also laptops with ESATA ports but if your laptop does not have them then you can buy an ESATA card for your laptop.

By: Josef

Josef — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:48:11 +0000

I have a Seagate hard drive which tends to do such a thing, frequently it goes “Brrr ….. whiiiizzzzz” and spins up, and then it goes “clack” a few moments later. It tends to crash or otherwise creep out almost any program using a net connection and the drive at the same time, such as FTP software, games etc.

By: Fred Blasdel

Fred Blasdel — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:08:27 +0000

I would use firewire enclosures, but the windows firewire implementation is so awful, that’s a non-starter for you.

Your best bet is to just use SATA externally. The ‘Venus’ enclosures that NewEgg sells are the best by leaps and bounds:

The power supplies are terrific â€” the AC-adapter is small and plain 12v with a plain barrel adapter (no shitty mini-DIN plugs with arbitrary pinouts), and it converts the low-amperage 5v rail internally.

The cases are aluminum with plastic endcaps that provide for airflow around the whole middle of the case. There is a thin, large-diameter fan in the bottom of the case that is very quiet and does a great job of cooling. No tiny-whiny 40mm monster.

By: Shii

Shii — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:04:42 +0000

lol, sony products