What enclosures house the hard drives as they travel?
When the TTB Project first started, we used an external drive enclosure called the the “Mini Portable Disk” from Ultra Products. Then, we moved to another enclosure… the Quad Interface Super Combo by CoolGear. I liked that model because those enclosures supported USB 2, FireWire 400 (both 6-circuit and 4-circuit), FireWire 800, and External SATA. Coolest of all was the fact that the unit’s power supply was fully self-contained and thus the enclosure simply took its juice from an ISO computer power cable. Now, however, I have moved the project to even smaller and simpler 2.5″ notebook hard drives. The Western Digital company’s “Passport” model became available in 1TB size and we jumpped on that. I am not happy with how the drives are designed, packaged, and configured… but we’ve got ourselves a workable solution now, nonetheless, with smaller size and weight than ever before.
