List of the top 5 usb enclosures

With so many usb enclosures out there it can be difficult to choose the best one, Here's a list of the top 5 usb hdd enclosures to help you choose the best.

Hard Drive Enclosures

A usb hdd enclosure is a type of enclosure where one can get a guard device for the hard drive. So For that, it needs the enclosure to get protected from any other damage.There should be some specialities for the enclosure such as it should be anti-seismic and skid proof, and the size should no be in big size. This enclosure should have the easy facility to connect with the PC. Now a days the modern hard drive enclosure uses the USB interface.

As the hard drives are of many types, the enclosure also has the relative types to match the hard disks parts. In market we find 3 kinds in the external hard drive market, they are: SATA port, USB2.0 port, IEEE 1394 port. They vary in data transmission.some are slow and some are more fast. SATA has the highest transmission rate.

Some options for considering a Hard Disk Enclosure:

1. Hard Disks Size : the size for a laptop Enclosure is differ from the size of a Desktop Enclosure.

2. Interface: The Interface is also differ when we use SATA rather than any IDE .Both have different connection cabling.

3. Bays: There are Single and dual bay enclosures. Dual bay enclosure can carry two Hard Disks and some Dual bay enclosure also support RAID so both hard disks can be set up and it appears as a single drive.