[ale] SATA PCI card or external USB enclosures?

[Calvin Harrigan]

On 3/4/2013 3:04 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> I don't have any experience with PCI cards for this.  For enclosures, I
> like the Vantec brand.  Quality seems to be good.  Some of them have
> fans for cooling.
>
> Ron
>
> On 3/3/2013 2:47 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>> Anyone have a suggestion for a good but not too expensive SATA PCI
>> (not express) card and/or external USB-SATA enclosure?  The enclosure
>> for my backup drive just died (the drive seems fine...I hope).  I just
>> need to pop it into a new box or just slip another card into the case
>> (mobo has only IDE, no SATA).
+1 for Vantec
I have several, all several years old, none have failed to date.