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jfromeo
08-27-2009, 01:45 PM
Is there any hard drive enclosure that meets all these features?

2.5" and 3.5" HDD compatible
IDE (ATA33/66/100/133) and SATA (I/II) compatible
USB 2.0 and eSATA connectors (FireWire 1394a/b/c is optional)
Full aluminium body, active cooling fan, suspend mode, backup button, led status...

The first two features are a must for my needs, while the last one is pretty optional.

Many thanks in advance :)

AndrewZorn
08-27-2009, 02:09 PM
ide and sata? why?

jfromeo
08-27-2009, 02:24 PM
I need it to try to repair/backup a 2.5" IDE drive from a 4 y/o notebook that stopped working some days ago.

The 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adaptor seems to be unavailable in all the local shops I went. So I thought it would be nice to get a versatile HDD enclosure that let me plug it into it, apart from all my SATA II drives from the desktop computer.

The drives I found that meet the first requirement (2.5" and 3.5" compatible), can't hold IDE and SATA based drives at once, while all the enclosures that meet the second one (IDE/SATA compatible) just work with either 2.5" drives or 3.5" drives, but not both at the same time :S