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   In article , lars@beagle-   
   ears.com says...   
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   >So I am looking at (empty) external enclosures. Cheap Chinese products   
   >start at $10/unit, at $16/unit some decent ones are stocked at Amazon   
   >warehouses for next day delivery, but those are disappointing. Half of   
   >them have bad reliability histories with several customer reviews saying   
   >they died after about 4 months, and the other half do not support SMART.   
   >The ones that do have good reliabilty and SMART support are closer to   
   >$60/unit.   
   >   
   >Any experience and recommendations?   
   >   
      
      
   This is what I use (though I also have a four-bay HP "Microserver" for   
   more regularly-used disks).  What I like about the Startech docking   
   station is that it supports E-SATA - I have an E-SATA card in my PC.   
   That means I'm not going through USB, and I can readily read SMART data.   
      
   https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00KILQOG0   
      
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