Reasonable eSATA drive that will handle Seagate 750GB?

tmnt

tmnt

King of Australia
I have a Icecube Palesaides for my first seagate 750GB Sata drive but now need a second enclosure or my newly ordered 750Gb Sata drive. I would like a cheaper case for the second drive that still has the spin down function and eSATA and usb 2.0 (minimum).

I've searched the forums and they're only seems to be the expensive enclosures mentioned. Any thoughts?

Ian
 
I had a bad experience with cooldrives. I ordered the swappable quick release esata drive and it wouldn't work with the 750 gb drive. They insisted that it did/would and that my computer, the drive, and I was to blame. I spent days trying everything to get it to work. I returned it for repair and they said (after 6 weeks) that the board inside must have got crunched during their installation (their fault) repaired it and sent it back. By that time I had to get another enclosure, and they refused to keep it as a return. It still doesn't work properly and I have abandoned it. It's been my only bad experience with a purchase.....
 
Thanks for all your help. I just brought a second enclose, same as the first. I really didn't want to spend the bucks again but I figure i'll forget about the extra $100 when I get to editing. This case has the oxford 924 bridge, 2xfw800, 1xfw400, 1xeSata, 1xusb2.0. I've only had the other enclosure for a few days but it looks solid - only thing I didn't like was the 16 screws it takes to fix, minor gripe. Here's the link, it's an Aussie site.

http://www.computerdirect.com.au/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=89&products_id=117&osCsid=05294535670d9852c7ae68816322edda

The cheaper usb2.0 + eSata drive I nearly went for was the Icy Dock MB559US-1s (from memory, hope that's right). Looked quiet good at $55 from newegg.

Ian
 
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