Pretty Hard Drives, look like a real book

Written on May 31, 2008 – 10:28 am | by peconi | 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
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Western Digital’s MyBook hard drives were always nice. They look simple and pretty, and I suppose they do resemble a plain old black book if you turn on your imagination.

Sarotech on the other hand went even further with their new 3.5" HDD Enclosures:

eng_w31_big1I must admit, they look hot and I rather have one of these on my desk, or bookshelf, than a WD MyBook. First, for the looks, and second, I can decide which hard drive goes in there. We all know buying an internal hard drive is a lot cheaper than getting an equivalent external drive so having a good enclosure that is fairly priced offers more bang for the buck when it comes to choosing a hard drive for it.

Furthermore they come with a software package for easy Backup, Restoration and data encryption. There is also a write-protect switch which I have no idea what it really does, and there’s a one click backup button on the back as well. One thing I really like is that this is the only external enclosure I know of which has a built-in power supply! Quite welcome change since behind my desk I have 10-too-many bulky adaptors and I really do not need one more.

The only downside of this product as I far as I can see is that it comes only with USB 2.0 port. Since some time ago I’ve installed FireWire 800 ports on my PC, and having a double speed than USB 2.0 really feels nice.

No info on pricing yet, so I hope it doesn’t end up being unreasonable. I really want a couple of these ;)

Via: Sarotech.com

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