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Apple-styled HD Enclosure

by Erica Sadun Feb 27th 2007 at 6:30PM

Wikidesign tracked down this hard disk drive enclosure which offers you some of very Apple-ish aesthetics. It's a standard 3.5" IDE/(P)ATA enclosure with USB 2.0 and 1394 support. The holes on the back are needed because it's a fan-free enclosure--which you need to take into account because this thing needs good ventilation. The aluminum materials used in the unit should help with heat dissipation but it's probably not very stacking friendly. At £39.99, it's a bit pricey--especially since it doesn't come with an actual disk. You're just buying the enclosure. Still, it's pretty good looking, isn't it? [via WikiDesign]

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Shane

Just to add to the fun...
Sabrents Specs: http://www.sabrent.com/products/specs/ECS-UFMC.htm

Good luck finding them. They seem to have been discontinued or just ran out of stock everywhere. Used to get them for $30 but now cheapest is about $50. (http://store4pc.stores.yahoo.net/ecs-ufmc.html)

shane

February 28 2007 at 1:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Shane

I have 2 of these... got them off ebay for $25 USD almost a year ago. They work good, but seem to trap heat really well to.

-shane

February 28 2007 at 1:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
JD

Which of the competing designs are fanless? The linked mini stack uses a fan. If it's really a plastic enclosure, then I'm not interested.

February 28 2007 at 11:11 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
matthew

This design has been out almost as long as the Mac mini itself. NewerTech introduced the MiniStack in 2005.

February 28 2007 at 10:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
I\'m Lost

Just get:

http://www.newertech.com/products/ministackv2.php

February 28 2007 at 8:58 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tobias

Who wants an Mac mini styled external HD. With the new Airport Extreme Basestation you can can connect an external HD and make it available over the WLAN. What I want is an Airport styled external HD, just like this one: http://www.apfelkueche.de/2007/02/23/apple-airdisk/

February 28 2007 at 3:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Adam

Why does this qualify as news or even a bloggable item? Mac Mini styled HD enclosures have been out for a few years, and this is one of many in the market.

Also by a note on the linked site: "You can only make one connection from your computer to the housing via USB or FireWire. You can not connect to both the USB and FireWire ports on the housing at the same time!"

It seems that other enclosures offer FW and USB simultaneously, so why bother with this one?

February 28 2007 at 1:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SubGenius

Why doesn't anyone make devices with internal power supplies anymore?
I hate having all those external bricks sprawled out under my desk.

February 27 2007 at 11:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brian

I use a 320 GB disk from LaCie that is very similar looking. One thing that is really nice is it leaves a gap between the Mac Mini and drive so both of them stay a little cooler. I think it also has 2 usb and firewire in, as well as 2 usb and 1 firewire out.

February 27 2007 at 9:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Arun

ADS Tech has had one like this for a while now. Its pretty good! (only 20 bucks)

February 27 2007 at 9:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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