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Akitio Taurus Mini Super-S LCM RAID Enclosure Review

Akitio Taurus Mini Super-S LCM RAID Enclosure Review

Redundant storage is something many people need and definitely appreciate, especially if you’ve had a hard drive die on you.  That is never fun and neither is losing all of your data that was on your hard drive.  Akitio has a cool little enclosure that will give you redundant storage with RAID support, nice protection with its aluminum design and quite a few different connection options.  Did I mention it has a cool LCD display on the front that will give you information about your drives?  Read on as we check it out!

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Unboxing the Akitio Taurus Mini Super-S LCM Enclosure

Unboxing the Akitio Taurus Mini Super-S LCM Enclosure

Akitio is a name you may not be familiar with, but they specialize in mainly storage products. These include professional as well as consumer-grade products. Today we are taking a look at a very cool enclosure for 2.5-inch hard drives. The Taurus Mini Super-S LCM will hold two 2.5-inch hard drives, has USB 2.0, eSATA and Firewire connections, supports RAID and also has a pretty cool LCD on the front. Read on to check out our unboxing and overview video.

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Hornettek Shark USB 3.0 2.5-inch Hard Drive Enclosure Review

Hornettek Shark USB 3.0 2.5-inch Hard Drive Enclosure Review

Today we’re looking at Hornettek’s “SHARK” 2.5-inch SATA drive enclosure. You take your existing 2.5” drive and put in the enclosure and voila! Portable drive!  The SHARK utilizes USB 3.0 technology, giving it an edge over comparable products still using USB 2.0.  Crafted from Aluminum, the enclosure is definitely one designed with the aesthetic-oriented tech crowd in mind. Keeping this in mind, does it keep up in terms of performance too?  Read on to find out more..

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Unboxing the CRU-DataPort ToughTech Duo

Unboxing the CRU-DataPort ToughTech Duo

Today we are doing our 50th unboxing! Thanks everyone for following us since we have started doing these videos! Today we are taking a look a the CRU-DataPort ToughTech Duo, which is a portable hard drive enclosure that is meant for two 2.5-inch hard drives. It offers firewire, USB and eSATA connectivity and features easy to setup RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations via the LCD on the front of the unit. Read on to check out our unboxing and overview video!

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IOCELL NETDISK Hard Drive Enclosure Review

IOCELL NETDISK Hard Drive Enclosure Review

Connectivity is king for external storage devices. The more ways a user can connect, the more ways the user can access their data in any situation. The IOCELL NetDisk SOLO NEWFAST is a sleek external hard drive enclosure offering four ways of connecting to the drive: USB, eSATA, direct Ethernet, and via a network connection. ThinkComputers has the review.

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Unboxing the IOCELL NETDISK Hard Drive Enclosure

Unboxing the IOCELL NETDISK Hard Drive Enclosure

Most hard drive enclosures are the same, but the NETDISK from IOCELL Networks is a little bit different. As the same suggest it is network-connected so you have a network connection along side the USB and eSATA connections. This means you can share everything on your drive with the devices that are connected to your network like your Xbox 360 or media center. The extra USB and eSATA connections mean you can also take the drive with you and use it where you may not have an ethernet connection available. Read on to check out our unboxing and overview video!

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Hornettek Goliath USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure Review

Hornettek Goliath USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure Review

External hard drive enclosures are nothing new, we have seen them since the USB 1.0 days.  Now that USB 3.0 is becoming standard on most motherboards and cases we are seeing many USB 3.0 external hard drive enclosures coming out.  One such external hard drive enclosure is the Goliath from Hornettek.  This is a larger external hard drive enclosure as the name Goliath suggests so it will fit a 3.5-inch hard drive.  Let’s check it out and see what is all about.

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Unboxing the Hornettek Goliath USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure

Unboxing the Hornettek Goliath USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure

Our friends over at Hornettek were nice enough to send us over their Goliath USB 3.0 external hard drive enclosure. With the popularity of 2.5-inch solid state drives it is very hard to find hard drive enclosures that support larger 3.5-inch hard drives. Luckily Hornettek has the Goliath that does support 3.5-inch hard drives and even better it is a USB 3.0 enclosure and has an 80mm cooling fan included. Read on to check out our unboxing and overview video!

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ICY DOCK MB974SP-B Internal 4-bay Enclosure Review

ICY DOCK MB974SP-B Internal 4-bay Enclosure Review

Storage is something we can never have too much of, I myself have over 4TB of space and it is running out!  Most of my storage is external though, so it’s a pain to take with me to LAN parties or other events.  Most cases these days have room for 4-6 hard drives, but for some people that still is not enough.  How many optical drives do you have? I don’t even use them anymore so I have 4 open spots in my case for nothing really.  Well not nothing, ICY DOCK has a great device that will allow me to fit four more hard drives in three 5.25-inch drive bays.  The device is the MB974SP-B, let’s see if it is the perfect device for you to add more storage to your system.

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TRENDnet Launches New 5Gbps USB 3.0 Storage Enclosures

TORRANCE, Calif. –November 2, 2010–TRENDnet, a best-in-class wired and wireless networking hardware brand, today announces the availability of the 3.5” USB 3.0 External Enclosure, model TU3-S35, and 2.5” USB 3.0 External Enclosure, model TU3-S25. Save time by storing and transferring content at blazing fast 5Gbps USB 3.0 speeds—10 times faster than USB 2.0 enclosures.

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