[ale] SATA PCI card or external USB enclosures?

[charriglists at bellsouth.net (Calvin Harrigan)]

On 3/4/2013 4:10 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> On 3/4/2013 12:19, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
>> On 3/4/2013 3:04 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>>> I don't have any experience with PCI cards for this.  For enclosures, I
>>> like the Vantec brand.  Quality seems to be good.  Some of them have
>>> fans for cooling.
>>>
>>> Ron
>>>
>>> On 3/3/2013 2:47 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>>>> Anyone have a suggestion for a good but not too expensive SATA PCI
>>>> (not express) card and/or external USB-SATA enclosure?  The enclosure
>>>> for my backup drive just died (the drive seems fine...I hope).  I just
>>>> need to pop it into a new box or just slip another card into the case
>>>> (mobo has only IDE, no SATA).
>> +1 for Vantec
>> I have several, all several years old, none have failed to date.
>>
>
> Do you have any issues with the drives spinning down?  It seems that's a
> frequent event for some of these enclosures.  I just want to leave the
> drive spinning at all times.
>
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No intrinsic drive spin downs, that's well above the USB interface.  I 
tend to use standard desktop drives, not the green ones that tend to 
spin down quickly.  Any spin down is at the OS level.