external enclosure

Forum discussion tagged with external enclosure.
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    Question External enclosure required for an M.2 SSD that has a heatsink on it ?

    I was given a Samsung 990 Pro M.2 SSD that has a heatsink on it. Does anyone know which enclosure this will fit in? I tried several from Amazon but the M.2 SSD is too big for the enclosure. I can't take the heatsink off w/o damaging the M.2 SSD. Thanks AG
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    Question HDD vs SSD on External Enclosure

    Dear TomsHardware Community I'm new in here so hallo. I would like to ask some questions, i have 2.5 inch orico sata enclosure I would like to put storage in it. But I have questions about durability for the data, some people say HDD more durable some statistics like Blackblaze say SSD more...
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    [SOLVED] Swapping Internal Drives and Changing 1 to an External Drive

    I'm getting a 1 TB internal SSD and I want to replace one of the Internal drives in my PC. Right now my computer is running a 125 GB SSD as the main drive and I have a 1 TB HDD as a second internal drive. I don't really want 3 internal drives so I wanted to replace the HDD with the new SSD and...
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    [SOLVED] 8TB SSD enclosures?

    Looking to replace my old portable HDDs with an external SSD for media storage. The portable SSDs that are available locally max out at 2TB and are very expensive - for not much more I could get an 8TB Samsung QVO 870. The problem is every portable enclosure I find seems to have a capacity...
  5. PeppermintFangs

    [SOLVED] External Storage for Video Editing

    Hi all! My question is two-fold... 1: I'm trying to find the cheapest way to store my raw editing footage (I'm expecting to have 10TB of footage, give or take) in an external enclosure. It seems that RAID arrays are quite expensive and too complicated for what I'm looking to do. Can I use an...
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    [SOLVED] A good External 3.5" HD Case and 3TB HDD?

    Backups onto my older Sata 3 5400 rpm My Book are taking too long, and interfering with other things. I'd like to buy a 3TB external HD for backup and a 3.5" external case for it. I'm thinking of a Hitachi P300 for the HD, since many enterprise drives are noisy and there may be size...
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    Question Adding heatsinks on external SSD

    Hi, I bought an SSD with an enclosure. I have noticed that the SSD gets too hot while using. Now after installing the SSD in the enclosure, there is some clearance between the SSD and the enclosure at the top (approx. 5mm). So I thought that if I could use that clearance by installing some...
  8. Jonathan Sifleet

    Really slow Hybrid Drive

    I purchased a Seagate ST1000DX001. This is the 1TB Dekstop hybrid drive. My previous HDD was a caviar green 5400 RPM 1TB model. However when I first started using the hybrid drive my boot times were around 40 seconds rather than 70, a little disappointing. However now it has gotten to the point...