External Hard Disk Enclosure Question
 

Im thinking of buying this 4 port enclosure for some old drives i have laying around but i have 2 questions.

Will i be able to use this and have it seen as seperate drives?

Will i lose any of the data that is currently on the drives when i set the drives up in the enclosure?

Here is the link to the enclosure....
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/4-ba...and-esata-host

Re: External Hard Disk Enclosure Question
 

Based purely on the reviews on that link I'd say it will see them as separate drives. No reason why you should lose data I don't think.
However a few people mention that it runs hot despite its "icy" credentials and that it can be a bit finicky. it's a nice idea though if you have a load of bare drives kicking around.

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Had you bothered to read the Product Overview.

You should not lose any content from the drives.

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Cool, i know what im getting myself soon then woo hoo!

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Just ordered this item so hopefully be here within 5 days.

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If you have ordered it from Scan it will probably be 2 weeks, that what mine and few others delivery times have been due to the current situation.

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I have one of those. You may have to fiddle with the settings, or you may not, can't remember!

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I put in a WD Red 3TB, WD Green 2TB and an older Maxtor 320GB no fiddling and it found them all.

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Its UPnP!

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Best £100 i've spent on computer parts in ages.

No fiddling, just fit the drives, power on and then it works.

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Did you see the bit about 'or you may not, can't remember' ????

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I'm somewhat late to this party but for anyone else who may want something like this in the future I can recommend these

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Re: External Hard Disk Enclosure Question
 

Cheers, looks pretty good and takes 2.5 inch laptop drives as well !


Although it's somewhat ambiguous about supporting Linux or not. ?

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Where's the ambiguity?

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But does that only apply to hot swapping?