Addonics unveils the Diamond internal / external hard drive enclosure

While flash drives and pocket hard drives are all well and good, sometimes you just gotta move all the data on that 1TB monster to another machine and go -- and Addonics has got you data-intensive road warriors covered with their new Diamond line of SATA / eSATA hard drive enclosures and cradles. Mounting a drive in the enclosure gives you what appears to be a regular, if somewhat slim, eSATA drive, but the entire unit can then be slid into one of the Diamond cradles mounted in a 5.25-inch bay, giving you a host of internal connection options, from plain ol' USB 2.0 to direct SATA to SCSI. Depending on how you configure your setup, prices range all over the place, but a standard SATA / eSATA rig should only set you back about $50, according to Addonics. Not bad, not bad at all.

[derekwilkinson Posted Jun 2nd 2007 9:20PM]

yeah i think they messed up lol

[Paco Posted Jun 2nd 2007 8:58PM]

Oh, I thought you guys just reviewed new stuff instead of things that came out years ago. My bad.

[Jeff P Posted Jun 3rd 2007 11:44AM]

Why is it that some people just can't help themselves? I guess you just have it in you to be an A-Hole. The web is such a wonderful place but it sure hasn't done anything to promote the growth of MANNERS. Grow up.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 2nd 2007 9:08PM]

and I see it comes equipped with a nice and noisy 8mm fan...

neat idea, dunno how wise it would be to yank your 750gig drive out of your system all the time and carry it over to your friends house. and for local usage, GigE is really pretty fast...

[gerbick Posted Jun 2nd 2007 10:40PM]

No disrespect, and as much as I hate to echo prior vitriol; however this is far from being new.

[waruwaru Posted Jun 3rd 2007 1:30AM]

I had similar IDE/SCSI enclosure 15 years ago. It's convenient to transport large amount of data to multiple sites. But the small enclosure will also cook your drive quickly. Those $0.25 fans doesn't do much to cool your drive down.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 3rd 2007 4:26PM]

that beige case is quite an invitation to the late 90s - back when i was still using an amd 5x86 133 inside an actual beige addonics case.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 5th 2007 1:31PM]

Actually this is not the same as the old cases because you can pull the drive out while the system is running and plug in a different drive. I actually priced this out in comparison to using DLT tapes and using this was much cheaper.

Also:

Instant access to data. Tape? No.
Much more reliable Tape? No.
Seagate drives. 5 yr. warranty. Tape? No.

They might be bulkier but I use this for backup and it is much better than my tape solutions!!!