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3. them each time I alternate one of the HD s To each his own I say My impression of the STU 35 was also very positive clear up to the point where I tried to turn the STU 35 enclo sure over to extract the first internal HD Itested in it this was necessary because I couldn t get it out any other way short ofusing a pry bar on it There is no finger room on any side what so ever and that is perfectly OK except that the loose fitting sides fall out onto the mounting surface in so doing See graphic That is something that can be lived with I feel as you can actually use that particular deficiency to help you extract the HD without having to turn the entire en closure over during the HD extraction process See above Note That s a or de pending upon your view point The STU 35 is a very solid enclosure made out of good quality shiny alumi num Really nice looking that I even like very much their four 4 oversized tight ening screws that come with the STU 35 s did I mention that they house both IDE and SATA HD s when compared to the four 4 plastic corner mounting brackets ofthe CP Technologies I Se ries external HD enclosures they house IDE HD s only as well as the four 4 tiny hard to handle side mounting screws that require you to first locate a screwdriver to mount them properly on the CRU Dataport they also house IDE HD s only external enclosures For more see my September 2
4. 25 SATA WE HARD HIGH SPEED USB 2 0 AND ESATA INTERFACE Da x uu d Created with Comic Book Creator Page 9 Blue Chips Magazine February 2011 Customer Reviews Amazon com Sabrent ECS STU35 USB 2 0 to 3 5 inch IDE PATA or Serial ATA Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure Case SILVER by Sabrent a Average Customer Rating TUE 5 star J 1 Ease of installation weer 3 3 star E 3 Ease of use Arrr 3 pred A Reliabili refero 3 star 1 E E gt Rate this item s 3 attributes or AA u customer reviews Suggest a new one tortor Works great Saved me a lot of work and money November 25 2007 NB E ah By George Gonzalez Miami FL This review is from Sabrent ECS STU3S USB 2 0 to 3 5 inch IDE PATA or Serial ATA Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure Case SILVER Electronics i 3 nh ttc Not bad for the price May 2 2006 I was kinda worried when I read the other reviews for this By Techie T United States product but I had recently lost my desktop PC s Windows This review is from Sabrent ECS STU3S USB 2 0 to 3 5 inch ih abba ha ie ib sak per a po IDE PATA or Serial ATA Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure Case enclosure like this and try to fix it from my laptop I was not SILVER Electronics disappointed I m very glad I purchased this device and Poke TUN consider it a steal at the price Amazon has The drive that A little cramped inside The trick is to remove the front failed is a
5. Footnotes 1 See the actual Reports Reviews in the Blue Chips Magazine BCM Archives i e begin search on left hand side of web page at lt www ucs org gt Note Always choose the center option i e pdf format for its beauty f you are reading this Review from directly off of an Internet search you are seeing it in HTML format Yuk There s No graphics there To see all the beautiful graphics in this Review the ones that we ve worked so very hard to entertain you with you will need to follow the procedures outlined in Footnote 1 above Enjoy Again our web page www ucs org 3 Feature s precisely identi fied as reason s for designating this Review Report as Security Related In this case everything My Byline Happiness Is A Working Computer HIAWC 5 Aye that s the rub See October 2010 BCM Security Related Re port 16 Footnote 4 for a more complete explanation of this phrase Harvey starring Jimmy Stewart Part 10 of 10 http www youtube com watch v 3Jd VzLvuec The story Elwood P Dowd Stewart is a middle aged amiable and somewhat eccentric individual whose best friend is an invis a Cliff Millward ible 6 3 5 tall rabbit named Harvey As described by Dowd Harvey is a pooka a benign but mischievous creature from Celtic mythology who is especially fond of social outcasts like Elwood 7 During the Civil War Admiral David Glasgow Farragut took the last Con
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7. WOLILDN T YOU KNOW IT THEY RE LIKE ALL OTHER EXT HD S AFTER ALL Created with Comic Book Creator Page 17 Blue Chips Magazine February 2011 o a Pe Eat Anea Vies Go Fhein Options Tos Vi o GO ri ree ur E ku Lr SHOE B IDB IF OS DX WEE To amp BO wee eed We Mo Hh Hi Hi Hi l hme oun wo Canwest BOE amp Powrrlesk Prof 0 1 m E rs Fie Ede Archie Vus Go Favorites Geter Tag Viigi Q es z jo Fie Fide kc CP sce Manage amp icmmiesmrmsmsi go ass VEE mo 9 B o sed e Mo Ah Hi Yj i mel hm 9 Seo a oe oe 2H F E A o 1 AC Sa ism B a HP RBECDVERT D 5 B E DVD RAM Deve E T PEST ml Dons Hal di oe Sores 122110 Hh tum erie Lkge n E e Fev abe Dik H E ova t xw Dee IRL Hc agg Ora Touch J E i oD Dres M LL Loca Dogs i am kd X O Jum rez Lal D EY we O gt tal 1 obiectis 19 1 D oiei seecnec Tota 0 obyectia ignmonBsmmgosBoges z misbJ FF d ow dt Hos H Hi Hi Br wi do wo ow ens vs QcE E Q b a YA teres BR are GUD soe menace 27 zu LOD BOSE Og lu se DES B 7 7x shane cH we ed de Bs Hh Di HM pi a an o s Faccia Das ms tvsomm E Tase Mna I gia Lewes E E Ph es Ext Ew a cmon S fra Bt i 2 gp Ul ae fa Paese Dax eee safely remove m Mass Storage Device a lena vaio Dui K ae OE Safely remove LSA Mass Storage Device Dese
8. Desktop when you can move it anywhere your heart desires with a external portable case Aye that s the rub 5 And that s also why you can t go wrong with an external HD enclosure especially one that can change extra HD s easily plus be totally utilitarian with a SATA IDE HD dual housing capability to boot The STU 35 can be that enclosure You merely have to put up with a few SABRENT ECS STU 35 USB 2 0 to 3 5 inch IDE PATA or Serial ATA Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure n There s The Beef annoyances that s all Overall they PASS on hardware FAIL on Media support and respect but the Jury is still out on Tech Support Bottom line Disregarding com pletely how Sabrent treated me person ally the Sabrent ECS STU 35 SATA IDE Hard Drive Enclosure is the way to go Yo pays yo money yo takes yo chances opines Karl Malone the Jazz great Hall of Fame Basketball player For the money and downplaying its short comings the ECS STU 35 is just right for the job Try em you ll like em they are cheap at twice the price Overall Grade Recommend Buy They are the best of what I have I bought them didn t I After all HIAWC isn t it Besides they can be the perfect piece in the solution to your data stor age puzzle Nuff said I m out ta here It s safe to remove your hardware now Happy B day Deb and Dee and Happy Valentines Day to You All Ciao
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10. 008 BCM Security Related Report and CRU PPA External HD enclosures on page 13 Well as if that wasn t enough when I very carefully tried to pull the enclosure IDE cable out of the HD itself which is a very tight snug fit the plastic housing of the cable itself came apart in my hands See graphic Fry s was quick to give me a brand new replacement product and I was off and running again inb Et T Vll Miri Elie ibn rat E Turcecn ae ee nux eee gt cee ee ee rcm BEC CH i EE fs Everything proceeded from there in a very smooth fashion very smooth just as could be expected until it was time to Remove the STU 35 It was then that it reverted to an ordinary USB storage device status in it s mannerisms i e It couldn t be removed safely See graph ics on page 18 You know that USB Removing problem almost all USB storage devices have Well the STU 35 has it too Which means that the Plug n Play PnP feature Sabrent advertises isn t quite correct at least as I have been able to ascertain in my tests Jh Windows Delayed Write Failed iir agi ies ip eet aD Bee ch Foe Ee Se Ce The Caza ha bee beai T of your computer Furdvare ar nete connechon Please ty Pat eras mug E ced ny Bede ir ee Erud Tae mdp ni I now am personally afraid of their PnP assertions as I have actually lost very important data by pulling the USB Flash Drives UFD S out of their USB ports without stopping them fi
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13. This Month s Presentation CES 2011 Review Bob John Volume 29 No 2 February 2011 This Month s Meeting Wednesday 9th at 7 pm Check Out the New SATA IDE Hard Drive Enclosure on the Block oh page 4 Utah s Award Winning Computer Magazine By lif Millward Editor cliffm xmission com You Can Bank on This A piece of banking malware is evolving with more sophisticated capabilities and is making its way into PCs The information stealing malware called Car berp discovered last October can steal a range of data disguise itself as a legitimate Windows file and remove or negate any antivirus software installed Carberp runs on all versions of Win dows including Windows 7 without needing administrator privileges It can register itself as a browser extension and inject rogue HTML code into Web pages that can steal data Experts warn that even a new supertrojan is lurk ing in the shadows which may make ordinary viruses seem as harmless as a common cold Be aware you should always see a red flag when you re using a computer at home and you are asked for something that your login doesn t normally ask you for Don t be sucked into giving away sensitive information Smarter Than You Think That smartphone in your hand might be telling more about you than you think While a smartphone has become a communications must have it s also gathering information about you
14. b 2 0 hard drive enclosure July 21 2008 By J Orr This review is from Sabrent ECS STU35 USB 2 0 to 3 5 inch IDE PATA or Serial ATA Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure Case SILVER Electronics First one didn t work Had to return it and order another one Return and refund ok Second one has worked fine Easy to open and install HD Why there s no 0 rating on Amazon November 3 2006 By Alen Kalati Springfield NJ United States This review is from Sabrent ECS STU35 USB 2 0 to 3 5 inch IDE PATA or Serial ATA Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure Case SILVER Electronics This garbage like everything else offered by TigerDirect didn t work for Sata It died after a week or so Worked fine till the magic smoke came out April 30 2008 By Thomas A Martin Ann Arbor MI USA This review is from Sabrent ECS STU35 USB 2 0 to 3 5 inch IDE PATA or Serial ATA Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure Case SILVER Electronics Despite being pretty flimsy I had high hopes for this case Until I moved it for the first time and one of the components on the controller burned up In the trash it went I m off to shop for something better ve This thing Really is trash September 4 2010 By Masum Ahmed This review is from Sabrent ECS STUS5 USB 2 0 to 3 5 inch IDE PATA or Serial ATA Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure Case SILVER Electronics Attachments are poor The Power cable doesn t stick to the drive well a single move will crash the dri
15. e color Made on a minimum budget I would have paid a few dollars more for something that seemed better built Ye It does the job but it s flimsy March 14 2006 By CaesarTheDay CaesarTheDay Los Angeles CA This review is from Sabrent ECS STUSS USB 2 0 to 3 5 inch IDE PATA or Serial ATA Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure Case SILVER Electronics I recently went through another Windows XP meltdown thank you Bill and decided to get a new HD to use strictly for data storage I got an internal for cost reasons and needed an enclosure After long time looking for the right one I found one that offers both SATA and IDE connectors Once connected the product does it s job connects to the PC and stores data But it s built like a grade school shop project Cheap aluminum held together by screws hot glue gun and a lot of luck The IDE and SATA connectors are short and stiff so you really have to wiggle to get your drive inside The power cord barely fits in a socket and the moment you breathe on it it falls out But the most annoying thing is the rattling This thing is put together in a way that every time the HD spins it rattles like ME Crazy Go find yourself another product I m giving it 2 stars only because I was able to recover my data quite nicely and quick thanks to the USB 2 0 NT 35 to 3 5 inch IDE PATA or Serial ATA Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure There s The Beef Page 11 Yrs Sabrent us
16. ectronics compared to a drive installed directly in a PC The product is as stated in the advertisement It does rattle In summary I was able to take my failed Windows drive sometimes so I place a small piece of paper on one side It and repair the file system on it from my laptop using this works just great with all of the HDDS I have so far I would enclosure I recovered everything and got my desktop back recommend this enclosure to anyone I just hope the up and running 10095 I also installed a 500GB WD SATA connection for the power works over a period of time I have drive to use as external storage and that s working great I had similar ones fail after a year I will see highly recommend this enclosure COM a EL Created with Comic Book Creator Page 10 Blue Chips Magazine February 2011 evict Noisy June 14 2008 By Jose E Escobar Chavez Tegucigalpa Honduras This review is from Sabrent ECS STU35 USB 2 0 to 3 5 inch IDE PATA or Serial ATA Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure Case SILVER Electronics Work a pretty well but it doesn t have any protection for harddrives and the sound its a high Aii If its SILVER Why is the picture BLACK October 19 2008 By Honest Guy geffroman Huntington Beach Ca USA This review is from Sabrent ECS STU35 USB 2 0 to 3 5 inch IDE PATA or Serial ATA Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure Case SILVER Electronics Has good features Lazy people should post a proper picture showing tru
17. erface USB 2 0 and USB1 1 Enclosure Material Aluminum Enclosure Size 3 5 USB Powered Yes Cooling Fan No RAID No Multimedia Support No Detailed Features Convert any Serial ATA SATA or IDE Hard Drive into external USB storage Native SATA 3 5 inch Drive to USB 2 0 Solution Slim Compact Aluminum Enclosure Plug and Play Hot swapping On Off Switch Included in Box Hard Drive enclosure 120v AC Power supply Power cord USB 2 0 cable User Manual See below Street Price Tiger Direct 24 99 plus S amp H Amazon com 29 85 Fry s 29 99 NewEgg Deactivated This item is currently out of stock and it may or may not be restocked Dear Reader If you are reading this in a non pdf format you are missing 7596 of the whole Review as it is almost entirely graphics intensive You should therefore stop read ing and immediately follow the steps outlined in the Footnotes 1 amp 2 below Which BTW are See the actual Reports Re views in the Blue Chips Magazine BCM Archives i e begin search on left hand side of web page at lt www ucs org gt Note Always choose the center option i e pdf format for its beauty 2 If you are reading this Review from directly off of an Internet search you are seeing it in HTML format Yuk There s No graphics there To see all the beautiful graphics in this Review the ones that we ve worked so very hard to entertain you with you will need
18. f the Rabbit Begins I bring this up because this month I ve found a fascinating External Hard Drive en closure to report on for you However as late as 2 days before actual deadline for publication of the Review I was still calling the appropriate company representative at Sabrent a Taiwanese based company about sending me a product to Review I even sent them a 300 dpi copy of my September 2008 BCM Security Related Report to prove my interest was genuine You know what they had not even bothered nor even had the common decency or curtsy no pun here but barb certainly intended during the week leading up to this point to even let me know that and here s what finally got to me that for the very first time ever for yours truly I was told that they wanted to use social media outlets only for getting the word out to the public about their products OK Not Yes sir with a certain degree of trepidation and frustration the Year of the Rabbit certainly does begin for us at least for yours truly but it s not nearly as quiet as the astrologers have predicted For me I hear the rapid thumpity thump of the rabbits hind legs hitting the ground as Sabrent runs lickety split away from the Tiger Stay tuned for the Chinese fireworks to come as I went ahead anyway and bought two 2 of them from Fry s here in Vegas and I m going ahead with the Review as I originally planned to do
19. federate stronghold on the Gulf of Mexico in the celebrated Battle of Mobile Bay The heavily guarded bay entrance was filled with mines then known as torpedoes Farragut s cry of Damn the torpedoes Full speed ahead is now the stuff of legend but it was also good tactics All but one of the fleet s 18 ships passed safely through the channel and in August 1864 Mo bile Bay s forts fell Old Salamander returned to Union territory a hero Source Military com 8 Red Skelton s as Clem Kadiddle hopper Skelton was inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame in 1989 but as Kadiddlehopper showed he was more than an interpretive clown One of his best known routines was The Pledge of Allegiance in which he explained the pledge word by word That routine was released as a single by Co lumbia Records after Skelton performed it on his TV series in 1969 The rather ungrammatical title was from one of Red Skelton s radio catchphrases of the day In 1942 Jack Owens The Cruis ing Crooner wrote a song for Skelton based on it I Dood It If I Do I Get A Whippin Serving Our Nation Page 6 WE VE GOT A LOT OF TRAVELING TO DO THE GABRENT ECS GTUSS GSB 2 0 1m hood ESTER GOLE ECHO SINGS p pen MINUM ENCLOSURE 35 SATA IDE RFACE HARUS are airy HIGH SPEED USB 2 eae as an meaa E ai ri j AF ranma onan eco mnn M SPEED UE hea aml Lai LE a paca rag SAER ENE a a n
20. gs up a task list in the middle of the screen Now type the letter P to bring up the Program Manager Customer I don t have a P Tech support On your keyboard Bob Customer What do you mean Tech support P on your keyboard Bob Customer I M NOT GOING TO DO THAT Page 2 Blue Chips Magazine February 2011 Blue Chips Magazine haines Utah s Award Winning Publication Magazine Staff Editor Cliff Millward Review Program Liaison James Alexander Review Product Editor Donna Nendell Review Editor Product Recruiter Don Nendell Photography LeRoy Johnson Proof Reader Larry Lamph Doug Jackson 619 9633 250 2269 565 9594 565 9594 Advertising Rates 12 months 1200 900 450 225 120 6 months 700 500 3 months 400 Ad costs 1 month 2 Page Spread 150 Full Page 100 275 Half Page 50 130 250 Quarter Page 25 70 130 Business Card 15 30 60 Full page size is 71 2 x 10 inches All other page sizes are based on a 7 x 10 inch page in order to conform to editorial style Half page ads may be 7 x 5 inches or 3 x 10 inches Quarter page ads are 31 2 x 5 inches Business card ads are 31 2 x 2 inches Classified Advertising Utah Blue Chips members may place personal classified ads at no charge Maximum ad size is 7 lines 35 characters per line Submissions Members are encouraged to submit text articles
21. hing done with all those 22 internal HD s even if it kills me in the process The Facts Ma am After getting stiffed by Sabrent and subsequently buying two 2 of my very own Sabrent ECS STU 35 SATA IDE External USB 2 0 Hard Drive Enclosures I took an abundance of photos of the enclosure case and its contents See graphics list of contents above plus pages 12 amp 14 It is every thing I ever thought it might be but with some reservations See pages 10 and 11 for Review Comments from other users of the STU 35 First impressions My initial impression was really good except for the skimpy User Manual s obvious mis representation of 1 0 Hardware Setup item 1 which states Make sure your drive has jumper settings in Mas ter mode See graphic of the manual at the bottom of the page This is only true if the HD is actually the Master HD The jumper should actually be set on Cable Select for external HD s housed in such external enclosures for it to be automatically picked up by the OS for example I did learn one new thing about the IDE SATA HD s operations from the manual See graphic and that was Note For 3 5 drives CDR CDRW DVDRW always turn on the power before plugging into the USB or SATA port otherwise it may English 1 Hardware setup malfunction Comment The only problem with that is not the power needing to be turned on but that I
22. in the first place d Ll a TU i Note I don t do something like this very often as you may well recall from reading the past more than 12 years of BCM Reviews from yours truly Um Thinking back on it now this may be only the second Review I ve ever done this way I guess I ll just have to ask my Harvey my own special pooka if he can remember when I last did a Pro bono publico usually shortened to pro bono i e gratis Review Any way now let s see why I ve chosen this particular product to Review for you this month Damn the torpedoes Full speed ahead 7 Sabrent SATA IDE External USB 2 0 Hard Drive Enclosure Finally you can connect any 3 5 Hard Drive albeit a Serial ATA SATA or IDE Note I ve got 22 IDE s plus 3 SATA s lying all around now See below and page 14 to your computer through USB 2 0 The USB 2 0 interface al lows users to read and write large files up to 480mbits per second plus it is fully backward compatible to USB 1 1 specification Which certainly makes this next Review product ideal for a personal backup solution For another viewpoint of external enclosures see also my September 2008 BCM Security Related Report the very same one I sent to Sabrent The new generation USB 2 0 to SATA HD enclosure is a very durable aluminum enclosure for your 3 5 SATA or SATA II hard drive or IDE drives Which means you can now transfer any ty
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25. n IDE but I knew I would want the flexibility of panel out of its slot before attaching the power and data installing a SATA drive for use as an external storage cables to the drive That gives you a little more working device and this seemed like the only enclosure capable of room Then you can slide the drive in where it needs to be doing both before re installing the front panel With a little trial and It s not flimsy as other reviews have called it but the whole error I had a 250gb SATA drive working in about 15 thing basically comes apart in four pieces when you undo minutes Nice aluminum interior exterior and lots of vent the screws to install the drive If you do it in your lap it ll be holes for cooling Seems to work fine a handful but it s really easy to put together again The 4 mee materials are first rate and the enclosure has plenty of By H cy xdi esl cc dd ventilation holes I wish it had a fan but after more than 12 This review is from Sabrent ECS STU3S USB 2 0 to 3 5 inch hours of continuous running I encountered no heat related IDE PATA or Serial ATA Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure Case problems It has both IDE and SATA interfaces inside the SILVER Electronics IDE is easier to install than the SATA but both are very 3 m i ca easy to do I think the easiest way to install the IDE is to After reading some of the negi ve reviews on this product I pull the data cable off the enclosure s circuit board and plug Wa
26. pe of data quickly and easily anywhere with this Ed TON S i y DORSEY T E fa Tal f 1925 1989 2011 TH imet e Page 5 Blue Chips Magazine February great versatile easily adaptable exter nal hard drive enclosure A Little Background Music Maestro Please I have internal hard drives by the scores 2 score and 2 to be precise lying all over my tiny computer room on the floor on tables on my desk on TV trays in boxes they re everywhere see graphic on pages 12 amp 14 I have mounting screws for all of those HD s scattered even farther around the room I even step on one now and then with my bare feet ouch I am virtually beyond frustrated at the fact that over half of those HD s seem to have taken a hike somewhere or other They just don t work any longer and man they have some very important Stuff on them Some are very critical to my Se curity business too That s what s so bad about my current situation I need them every so often to get old records off of them like videos et al This is some heavy Stuff in all The reason I have so many old HD s is because every year Donna and I take turns buying new PC s with our income tax return monies and believe it or not I just can t talk myself into throwing away the old HD s out of them at least that s what I keep telling myself anyway Note I just checked back through the huge stack of HD s and actually found two 2 HD
27. rst The STU 35 is no different in that re spect folks My recommendation for all USB storage devices Always stop them first then remove them safely You won t regret it I can assure you That s the only real drawback for all USB storage devices I feel I absolutely Love them all of them without ex ception After all that may explain why I ve done over 17 Reviews on them plus now on two 2 external HD enclo sures as well In Summary The STU 35 is the answer to IDE SATA HD s being used for additional storage purposes vice internal storage Page Blue Chips Magazine February 2011 The ability to move them around be tween PC s so easily is the very reason these external cases are so valuable to computing now a days Besides the price of those things is phenomenal said dirt cheap a s mes Dmm oo lo E Low Price Guarantee ge Wo WILL woot ANY price INTERNET ur LOCAL pom any AUTHORIZED DEALER mmc 1 1 5TB um 3006B EST un suci nr Donna was reminding me at break fast this morning that back in our Atari days at one time the cost of a floppy disk was 100 00US Now you can buy a Western Digital Serial ATA 300 SATA 1 5TB terabyte HD for 69 99 or a 2TB Iomega Select Desktop Hard Drive for 89 99 See Sunday 2 6 11 ads and graphic This is unbelievable folks Why would you want to buy one ofthese magnificent playthings and stick it inside a
28. s kind of hesitant to buy it I m glad I did It went it into the drive first then plug in the power connector to together well and has functioned flawlessly It had plenty of the drive place the drive in the enclosure and finally plug room for my 3 5 IDE drive and even an extra set of cables the other end of the data cable back onto the circuit board for when I upgrade to a larger SATA drive in the furure It To connect a SATA drive later it was necessary for me to met my need for a means to recover data from an old hard remove the IDE cable entirely Unfortunately I found no drive and has offered me an option for portable storage as easy way to stash the cable in the enclosure itself for safe well Don t think I could be happier with this product Even keeping if it gives up the ghost tomorrow It will have given me my moneys worth There are two external interface options the USB 2 0 and an eSATA A USB cable is supplied with the unit but no tte External IDE Sata HDD Enclosure eSATA cable This was a little disappointing since I think February 3 2009 the eSATA would be potentially faster I don t have an By Richard Raleigh Miller eSATA port on my laptop so having both options is good This review is from Sabrent ECS STU35 USB 2 0 to 3 5 inch but I ll get a cable and use the eSATA from my desktop in IDE PATA or Serial ATA Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure Case the future The USB 2 0 interface is a little slow of course SILVER El
29. s with Win 98 stuff on them they indicate that they are 4 GB s each Geez You can easily see my dilemma then I ve got to do something with all of them even if it is wrong Turn ei ther way but over now that I m at the T in the road Act Now Don Act now OK already OK I Dood it I Dood it While at Best Buy on Chinese New Year s day Donna and the very per suasive helpful salesperson actually talked me into buying a new Gateway Desktop PC with Windows 7 Home on it See my December 2011 BCM Review of Laplink s PCMover for more sound reasoning behind this little dilemma Now this particular new PC has amazingly enough two 2 slide out trays for SATA HD s in addition to its 1TB internal SATA HD The salesperson asked me pointedly during his presen tation why I didn t actually combine all those 22 old HD s into a single 1TB SATA HD Besides getting peeved at him in a very big way I didn t really have a credible answer to give him except for possibly the upcoming ECS STU 35 ex Just tne Facts Ma am Jack Webb EE SUEM I M ternal HD enclosure that I had originally planned to write a Review on Then again how could I logically Which brings us back to the present So here s that Review even though I have a new PC to play with now written of course with certain caveats thrown in just for good measure Whew I will finally get somet
30. sioc Hi 1 X dried WELL LUYS Gum Locs Dus PM E San irg MD Ki wx Q 1506 free 1 Seley ree USB Mage Storape Dieses Dese 53584 d cm 4 a oe C520 ad Ly DO TAS LEID mu dia M UU ELI LEISEM o orans Epp 1 1AGE mim otisci pected Tanal t obiera yout Safely Remove Hardware i Safe To Remove Hardware The USB Mass Storage Device device can B be safely removed from the system Select the device you want to unplug or eject and then click Stop When Windows notifies you that R is safe to do so unplug the device from your pum Ny 1O Gio P IT USE Mass Storage Lavica I HP Photosmart C5200 seras DOTAUSB USE Mass Storage Device USB Mass Storage Device USB Mass Storsge Device USB Mass Storage Device Hardware devices DID JA HEAR THAT EXTERNAL HD ENCLOSURES ARE REALLY GREAT Stop a Hardware device Confirm devices to be Sopped Choose OK to continue Windows will attempt to stop the following devices After the devices are stopped they may be removed safely Get SE Mass Storage Device a eran volume 0 da 51115002 3A USB Device Su Generic volume IE CO REIDI Created with Comic Book Creator Page 18 Blue Chips Magazine February 2011 J Safe To Remove Hardware x The USB Mass Storage Device device can no be safely removed from the system THANK S FOR YOUR PATIENCE Created with Comic Boo
31. to follow the procedures outlined in 1 above Enjoy Again our web page www ucs org Prolog Hare Affair What to Expect in the Year ofthe Rabbit by Your Tango 2 2 11 In the Chinese calendar 2010 was the Year of the Tiger If you re feel ing a little tuckered out after these past 12 months don t worry that s natural The Tiger was quite a torrid one for relationships full of tumultuous mood swings lots of hard work and over the top passionate adventures The Chi nese Lunar Calendar which resets each year in late January to mid February is one of the most ancient calendars in the world According to legend the Chinese emperor some 4 000 years ago held a race to figure out the sequence of animals in the 12 year cycle of his new calendar The rat came in first by hitch ing a ride on the ox s nose and jumping over the finish line at the last possible moment crafty The rabbit was fourth so we are currently in year number four in the cycle The year we re headed toward is significantly less stormy than the one we just endured Chinese as Page4 Blue Chips Magazine February 2011 ru iE 2 WARD BRIVE ALUMINUM MER rnnt m a po EHE ArT auri EE trologers are projecting quiet positive and inspiring things to come along with the Rabbit Source http glo msn com relationships hare affair 1534115 story gt1 49006 Re X be Introduction And so The inauspicious Chinese Year o
32. ve Sema 4 5 SATA IDE DRIVE ALUMINUM ENCLOSURE NTERFACE HIGH SPEED USB 2 0 AND E SATA pode a a qus re Fay md LE ro edm Created with Comic Book Creator Blue Chips Magazine February 2011 oe D UE TROGCHER X UR OUR OE i JH Created with Comic Book Creator Page 12 Blue Chips Magazine February 2011 PPA Int l WE BEGIN eee PARTS PERIPHERALS 4 ACCESSORIES T Fo 1 rue i Di iscArtT mor Premium Enclos utis by PRA DataPort DataPort 3 Affordable Removable Hard Drive Enclosure High Quality Removable at an Altractive Price Ideal for Education Small Business and Home Liser Markets Leading Warranty in ils Class 2 Years Available in both IDEIATA b and Serial ATA SoS Don s GOT THEM ALL Insert any capacity 3 5 IDE or SATA 3Gb s Hard Drive into the D ataPort Carrier Install Data Part Frame into any standard 5 25 drive bay PC or Mac Platform and application independent Insert DataPort Carrier into compatible DataPort Frame and tum an Powered Key CK ai Created with Comic Book Creator Page 13 Blue Chips Magazine February 2011 WOULD You JUST LOOK AT ALL THAT STUFF amit awe WOW I COULDN T EVEN CET IT ALL IN MY SUITCASE Created with Comic Book Creator Page 14 Blue Chips Magazine February 2011 OTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM ETE TIL E T praj F E d pP Amm N B i i 3 5 SAT
33. was unaware that CDR CDRW DVDRW s could be housed in their external enclosure Add to that with solid sides all around two 2 of which are removable on the enclosure there is actually no place available to be able to access a drive door to put the disks into see graphic Strange that A number of complaints against om i oho sell the STU 35 were registered by some Amazon com reviewers See page 11 among them is the fact that the HD does rattle around inside the case and makes a noise if you do not tighten them down during installation I personally disagree with this frivolous complaint as you can use the four 4 screws provided by Sabrent in the box to mount the HD permanently if desired from the bottom of the enclosure See graphic Person ally Ineed to keep the HD s unmounted to make it real easy for me to alternate between them The screws would thus be a hindrance to me by having to remove Make sure vour drive has jumper setting in Master mode Connect your drive and computer Turn on the power The computer should now detect the new drive For Windows 2000 XP VISTA no driver setup is necessary please proceed to step 3 0 to format your drive For Windows 98SE ME proceed to section 2 0 to install the driver Note For 3 5 drives CDR CDRW DVDRW always tum on the power before plugging the USB or SATA port otherwise it may malfunction Page 6 Blue Chips Magazine February 2011
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