INOi HD260U-000 2.5" USB2.0 Aluminum HDD External Enclosure

Pros: Inexpensive, reliable, durable.

Cons: Side are plastic, but not a problem, very durable and scratch resistant.

Overall Review: This is the same unit made by Triton Technologies that I have been using flawlessly for over 2 years now. Great little unit with 2.5" Fujitsu 20 and 40GB hard drives.

Pros: Works most of the time without a power cable. Easy to install and case is sturdy and says that it would withstand one ton of weight.

Cons: The only problem I have is when you do need additional power the cable that came with it is not really usable. I guess you are supposed to go out and purchase the appropriate power adapter to go along with the cable that was sent with the case.

Overall Review: If it is going to need additional power I wish they would have included a different cable. I have one enclosure that actually has an additional USB cable if more power is needed.

Pros: Easy to assemble. Well made. Well worth the price.

Cons: None that I see so far

Overall Review: This thing is great! It didn't take me much longer to install the drive and be up and running than it did to open the shipping carton. My Travelstar drive doesn't rattle inside the case. No extra tape or padding was required.

Pros: Very easy to use, just slide the drive in, plug-in the USB and go. It works on Win2K and WinXP. The case is simple and practical.

Cons: I keep losing the little tiny HDD screws (fortunatly I have extras) - a clip system would have been nice. The plug holds the drive in place well, though, so I rarely use the screws anyway.

Overall Review: Windows provides horrible management for external USB drives. Nothing like the power going out in the middle of a write operation... I have used this with several different drives for emergency backup operations.

Pros: works like it should , installed hard drive and connected it, windows xp recognized it and added driver automaticlly. was up and running in 12 seconds

Cons: one of the screw holes didn't line up with hard drive installed. I didn't force it because the one screw held it together tight enough.

Overall Review: came with no directions on how to use the ' one button back-up'.

Pros: *The drive plugs into same side the circuit board as the power intake is. Power doesn't have to travel accross a high-risistance printed-circuit line for most of the length of the enclosure. Good for USB ports that have their 500ma limit strictly enforced. *Full size USB plug! Most 2.5" cases on the market are mini-USB now. USB-mini cables are not as over-plentiful and cost more than regular USB cables. Also USB-regular cables are often a larger gauge and have larger connection contacts, which means less resistance on bus-power, good for powering drives via bus-power on laptops that strictly enforce the 500ma-per-port limit. *The power intake and the bus power can provide power simulatneously as a team. Good for older drives that want 800ma+ of power on a strict 500ma port (or worse, using an unpowerd USB hub while using a helper cable on a strict 500ma port). *Good, thick high quality metal case for heat dissapation. *Most other cases only have 2 of the above feature

Cons: *The tabs on the back cover are a little flimsy. May need scotch tape like the other reviewer after several months. I bouth 8 cases and assembled 4 so far. None of the back-covers are currently loose. *The power port on this enclosure uses a different connector than what most other 2.5" enclosures use. But I think it is still a standard connector (it may be same size that some 3.5" enclosures use).

Pros: strong thick aluminum, nice looks, usb-A to usb-A plus usb-A extra-power (1-prong to 2-prong cable). I prefer this cable over the WD-120GB cable because iys standard usb on both sides plus it gives extra power ion case the one usb-outlet on the computer side is not giving enough current to this or any other drive (cable can be used as extension on other drives , with male-to-male adapter). just put some cellotape/scotch tape over the drive and it can never fall apart ! bought this after Xmas. Working very fine. also bought 2 external WD-120GB 2.5" drives. also good. this enclosure probably cannot handle drives over 100GB (just like all the other enclosures). thats why i bought the 120GB WesternDigital's.

Cons: only con was solved by adding two little pices of scotch tape over the back of the enclosure, so it can never come loose again !

Overall Review: like the fact that newegg started lowering the cost of total shipping for orders of more than 1 item. now I am paying 7.89 instead of 5.96 +4.99 +etc.

Pros: Good quality, easy and quick to assemble and to get up and running. I just slid in the hardrive from my deceased laptop, closed the case, plugged it in to the USB port on my desktop computer, and that was all there was to it.

Cons: None.