Century's "Vibrating Bad" disk enclosure: hates shocks, loves PATA

by Thomas Ricker, posted Mar 7th 2007 at 8:46AM

Hard disk enclosures are dime-a-dozen these days. However few deliver the shock protection found in the new Century CSB25U2 or "Vibrating Bad" disk enclosure. This USB 2.0 enclosure features a silicon sleeve to protect the disk from drops with a motion sensor bonus to shut down the drive in case of sudden vibration or fall. Sorry, it won't accept SATA drives, this pup only accepts your old 2.5-inch PATA disks. Still, not bad for ¥2,980 or about $26.

[Via Impress]

Filed under: Peripherals, Storage

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Anonymous Hero @ Mar 7th 2007 12:19PM

Any similarity to DS Lite is purely coincidental.

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glacia @ Mar 7th 2007 12:25PM

Although I could envision one or two places in a drive where you would have a silicon sleeve I'm guessing you mean silicone since silicon would be pretty brittle.

It may be a pet peeve but I expect this sort of mistake from my mailman or the kid who bags my groceries but not on a 'tech' website. Actually my mailman's pretty sharp so I bet he does know the difference.

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CAPSLOCK @ Mar 8th 2007 9:38AM

glacia.

You have a "pet peeve" about someone writing silicon rather than silicone.

You really need to get out more!

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k_no @ Mar 20th 2007 7:22PM

How can one get a hold of one of these things? Checked online, couldn't find any for sale.

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