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In computer terms an enclosure is a case which contains something. Examples external HDD enclosures.

An enclosure is an area that is surrounded by a barrier. In computer land it often is a case which contains something.

One of the most commonly used case is an 'external HDD enclosure' which is a case which can contain a HDD and which often has plugs for power, eSATA, Firewire, SAS, Ethernet, USB or Thunderbolt.

An enclosure can also contain other things. E.g. external graphics cards, RAID arrays (optionally with a HW RAID card in the enclosure), etc. etc.

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Connecting Internal SATA HDD to eSATA

I have these 3 things: (1) An internal 3.5 SATA HDD. (2) An independent power supply that provides a Molex style connector (i.e. 5V and 12V power) and an adapter to convert it into SATA (except that it cannot provide the 3.3V found in a SATA power…
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How to connect a desktop SATA harddrive to laptop?

I will be going out of the country for a couple of months, and most of my stuff will go in storage. I will be taking my laptop, and will be keeping the desktop back at home. I was thinking of taking the harddrive from my desktop with me, since I…
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Externally attached ZFS pool hangs up, no sign of errors on drives

I have an array of 5 1TB WD Red drives in an external enclosure on a SATA multiplexer. This is being fed into a desktop machine with a SATA multiplexer controller. After about a year of service (this has happened twice) the array will start to reset…
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Advanced Format HDDs, USB enclosures and Windows / Linux compatibility

The environment I just bought a 1 TB Seagate Barracuda ST1000LM048 HDD. It's an Advanced Format drive, with 4096-byte sectors. I planned using it with my cheap-but-trusted (and I do mean cheap, it's really generic chinese and I paid about 5 USD for…
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Worth getting USB 3.0 enclosure for old HDD?

I have a WD 500GB MyPassport which is a couple of years old (2009-2010). Will I be able to see a noticeable speed difference if I remove the HDD and use it with a USB 3.0 caddy instead?
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Why are some hard disk enclosures limited in hard drive capacity?

Why are these hard drive enclosures advertised as having 160 GB maximum capacity? http://amazon.co.uk/dp/B008MRBMPA USB 2.0 interface (Compatible with USB 1.1), Up to 480 Mbps data transfer rates, 160GB capacity…
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What connectors do USB 3.0 devices use?

This USB 3.0 HDD case has something that looks like a USB A receptacle requiring an A-A cable, something quite unusual. The only alternative that Amazon.de is offering, has the 10-pin USB 3.0 Mini-B connector, something very rare as well. I don’t…
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How to turn a hard drive into an NAS?

I just got myself a 2TB drive (this one). I'd like it to be available to all the computers in the house. Is there a SATA enclosure available that turns a drive into an NAS?
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eSATA enclosure powers down SATA HDD after 5 minutes

I bought a new Delock 3.5″ External Enclosure SATA HDD to USB 2.0 / eSATA for some backup SATA HDD drives that I keep around and everything works just fine, except that if I leave the drive to idle for 5 minutes (precisely 5 minutes), it gets…
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Why does a SATA hard disk enclosure have a maximum capacity?

Why do some USB SATA enclosures have a 1.5TB, 2TB, or 3TB maximum written in the box? I want to know what happens if I use it on a drive above the maximum. Also, some enclosures don't specify any maximum -- does that mean I can use them for a 4TB…
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Is it safe to regularly transport an internal hard disk?

I'd like to make backups on an internal hard drive (using an USB enclosure) and carry it off-site. Will the hard disk survive for a long time?
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Code 12 on a graphics card in a Thunderbolt 3 eGPU-enclosure

So, I'm trying to do the eGPU thing. I'm running Windows 10 (freshly installed, literally 15 minutes ago, no changes whatsoever) on a 2016 MacBook Pro (15", the one with two full PCIe busses over four Thunderbolt 3 ports). I've connected an NVIDIA…
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How do I check whether the enclosure failed or the hard drive failed?

I have a spare 500 GB 3.5" internal SATA HDD which I decided to be used as an external HDD. Recently, I bought an 3.5" enclosure (3.5 inch Cavalry EN-CAXM SuperSpeed USB 3.0 enclosure) for this. I am using USB to connect to this to my laptop. For…
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How should I construct my own hard drive enclosure?

I recently replaced my laptop HDD with an SSD. It came with a handy transfer cable which lets me easily connect the old "naked" HDD to my laptop via USB. Now that I have switched over to the SSD, I would like to use the old HDD as a backup drive (OS…
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Recovering data from external hard drive with hard drive enclosure

So I spilled water on my WD Essential 1.5 TB hard drive. I think it is just the enclosure that is affected so I bought a Rocketfish hard drive enclosure. Now when I connect it to the computer it installs drivers and everything but under my computer…
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