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Then you can get an external aluminum enclosure for under $20, (or under $10) although none of the ones there sound quite as nice as the one Mark describes (and oddly the air circulation doesn't look great on any of them).


I have a couple of those $20 "drive cooker" enclosures, and they don't even attempt to protect the drive much at all. They *are* easier to swap drives in/out of, though. But for packing a drive to travel, or leaving one running for an extended period, the Seagate cases win.

They also spin down the drive after a shortish period of inactivity. I don't think my $20 ones do that.

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