[PLUG] ESATA cages...

[drew wymore]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Michael C. Robinson
<plug_1 at robinson-west.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 21:13 -0700, Aaron Burt wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:12:53PM -0700, Someone wrote:
>> > I recently ordered ESATA cages and noticed on the boxes that it says
>> > supports up to 500 GB.  Hunh?  I thought these could handle 2 TB drives.
>> > So, anyone know the story on this one?  I hate to go that small.
>>
>> Michael--
>> 1. In what way did a Google search not answer your question?
>> 2. Did you contact the people you bought the cages from?  They are paid to
>>    handle questions about things they sell.
>> 3. What did you hope to gain by posting to PLUG, without any info on what
>>    you tried first, let alone make/model/chipset info?
>>
>> HTH,
>>   Aaron
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>
> I got them from Tigerdirect out of Florida.
>
> As far as why did I ask on a Linux list, because I'm only concerned with
> whether or not they will work on a Linux based machine.  As far
> as your google is always the answer attitude, Google has a lot of cruft
> where external sata cages were very hard to find in the first place.
> Most places want to sell you USB2 external drive enclosures.  I also
> went on vacation, so I didn't have all the time in the world to Google
> this question where I'm sure I am not the only one who would appreciate
> having an answer.
>
> The product looking at the box really doesn't have an identifying name.
> The product is merely identified as,
> (3.5" SATA to e-SATA HDD ENCLOSURE), which is about as useful as saying
> it is an external hard drive cage.
>
> These enclosures have an on/off switch, so I'm wondering if hot swapping
> is at all possible under Linux?
>
> As far as pushing Google, Google is one company and frankly a defacto
> Monopoly when it comes to which search engine people tell you you
> should use to figure things out.  Never mind that there is increasingly
> controversy surrounding Google, consider Google books for instance.
> I don't particularly like Microsoft and I'm not into Bing, but Google
> needs to be taken down a notch or two and competed with aggressively.
> Google should not be considered synonymous with Linux, especially now
> that Google wants to come out with Chrome, their own OS.
>
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Issues aside - I have purchased enclosures that stated a 500GB limit
and have successfully used larger drives in them, albeit they were USB
enclosures. I surmise it might be an issue with power draw perhaps so
they are just playing a game of CYA?

Drew-