Talk:Disk enclosure

message: This page was created to merge USB enclosure, external hard drive, and the article's old namesake into a single unified article, covering all external drives other than those covered in keydrive.  The intro was rewritten from scratch to include every major point made in each of the articles.  All the sections other than "Benefits" originated in one article or the other, and were only updated and expanded upon.  Hopefully I didn't miss anything, but if you catch a point I didn't move over, please call me on it or fix it. Thanks! MrZaiustalk 18:18, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
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message: ===Old comment from Talk:USB enclosure===
The link: How External Hard Drive Enclosures Work doesn't really say anything about "How External Hard Drive Enclosures Work"! I'll see if I can find something more useful. Gabe 02:10, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Historical comments from merged articles

message: The link: How External Hard Drive Enclosures Work doesn't really say anything about "How External Hard Drive Enclosures Work"! I'll see if I can find something more useful. Gabe 02:10, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Old comment from [[Talk:USB enclosure]]

message: The following discussion was in response to the proposed merger of Disk enclosure into External hard drive.  I implemented the merge, but in the opposite direction, to make it more inclusive of floppy and optical drives.  See above. MrZaiustalk 18:23, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Old discussion from [[Talk:External hard drive]]

message: *Absolutely not. These are completely different ideas. An external hard drive typically refers to just a single drive while a disk enclosure can contain many drives (I've seen as many as 15 but there are probably some that hold more). --Pboyd04 21:52, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
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message: I unmerged external hard disk drive topic form disk enclosure, because the latter is only a part of what makes the former. huji—TALK 11:44, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unmerging compelted 

message: Thank you for having this article.
I came here after looking up 2.5" enclosure on my local e-store, hoping to find some clarity surrounding height. I saw references to 9mm and 13mm, perhaps surrounding SSD's. Expanding your "While laptop hard drives are today generally of the 9.5 mm high variant" a bit may be useful. (I had hoped in coming to wikipedia I could find out what range of sizes were out there to know what the max is to 'future proof' any purchase.)
I happened to come across an article the other day, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick, and what caught my eye was the "Notes about speed" section. In particular USB 2 being faster than CD/DVD-ROM, which is faster than USB 1.1. I also see "it seems that there are no really fast pendrives below 16 GB" [perhaps witnessed by common product descriptions noting read/write speeds nowadays, perhaps once the product specs exceed some criteria (?). Perhaps expanding a paragraph in this article surrounding (relative) speeds may be useful. [Perhaps it's arguable that a SD(XC?) -> USB adapter is an 'enclosure'?]
"Native drive interfaces" ... eSatap: As far as I know, no drive natively takes esatap - have you mixed drive interfaces with enclosure interfaces in esatap's case?
"Direct attach serial interfaces" is perhaps where esatap should be. I would also suggest that you recommend people be careful - I have, for an example, an enclosure with a sata, not esata connector. Discovered only upon arriving home with the new purchase. I was able to deal with it, but wish I had known to keep an eye out for such when I was in the store.
"Network protocols" - I think you are mixing things here. e.g. Although CIFS is a network protocol, it is enclosure independent. Protocol and enclosure are all but distinct and independent terms. I get and appreciate the inclusion here, but perhaps a little rework is due: A network (not native / USB / (e)Sata, as you distinguish elsewhere) enclosure may provide access via such protocols [but that is a function of the software included/on the enclosure, not the physical enclosure itself, and this article seems to mostly deal with the physicality of the enclosure], but not a non-networked enclosure, where it is the hosting computer's facility that allows any enclosure attached storage to be externally (network) accessed.
The article is in some ways written as a buyer's guide, or at least a list of criterias to be considered when evaluating an enclosure - and that is VERY much appreciated. However, on that basis, and given the at least summary discussion surrounding speed, perhaps references to SD and USB key speeds would be useful?
Thanks for listening.
BS (talk) 18:44, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello!  Your suggestions sound good, how about editing the article yourself?  Once you're done, I or someone else will review the changes and do any further improvements, if necessary. — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 11:00, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
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