[DM-MUG] Internal Hard Drive/multi-bay enclosures

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Here's some more info. 

No tray enclosures mean you are limited to hard drives only. ones with a tray(s) you could add a dvd drive or other type of removable drive (zip, blu-ray, lightscribe, cd burner, etc.) assuming the removable drive had the same connector the enclosure would accept. In this case SATA.
and word of caution, sometimes what is marketed as 4 bay is actually 3 bay, with the fourth serving as the bay's "motherboard" for the 3 hard drives you can install and also having the connectors to attach it to whichever computer you want via usb/firewire/eSATA. Some enclosures and external harddrives have problems of overheating. Such as was the case with MacMini drives. AppleTV is very similar to the MacMini. I'm not sure if it had the same overheating problem, though. Some enclosures have fans. Some fans are noisy. Some are not.

Raid 0 and RAID 1 are a factor if you are concerned with using a basic server type setup in a home network or small business setting. Which you could potentialy do with the 4 bay no tray enclosure set up. Though I was foggy on the specifics of each to begin with and it hasn't improved since I'm in a line of work not requiring 40+ hours a week selling technology. 
.... Which brings me to, Circuit City closing because of bankruptcy. I know there weren't any in Iowa...

But I'm disheartened because they used to have a pretty good reputation and it's the same fate CompUSA had. Which leaves Best Buy, walmart, the Apple Store, and online retailers for purchasing computers and accessories. Online retailers for electronics and computers is not good for us consumers. I like to see what I'm buying, and sometimes a 2D visual just doesn't do the job.


--- On Fri, 1/30/09, Victoria L. Herring <VLH at HerringLaw.com> wrote:

> From: Victoria L. Herring <VLH at HerringLaw.com>
> Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] Internal Hard Drives shopping
> To: anastasia_prittee at yahoo.com, "Des Moines Mac Users Group" <dmmug at dmmug.org>
> Date: Friday, January 30, 2009, 10:01 AM
> Thanks much for all the info=-= I'm putting this into a
> WiebeTEch enclosure [4 bay, no tray] and it's a
> 3.5" and SATA I'm pretty sure = I'll check
> Wiebe site...
> 
> Prices for 1TB are now under $200 and some much lower...
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