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Old 02-21-21, 11:45 PM  
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P.S. That Sabrent enclosure with a fan which you linked to looks to be much easier to use than the Rosewill's I've bought in the past, which involved many screws. I've never used a "docking station".

Presently, using SSDs, I've ordered these Sabrent cases which are great and very inexpensive : https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OJ3UJ2S?psc=1

Enclosures will work with a drive in any format, it is the formatting of the drive that makes it compatible with a Windows or Mac machine, not the enclosure.
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Old 02-22-21, 05:43 PM  
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P.S. That Sabrent enclosure with a fan which you linked to looks to be much easier to use than the Rosewill's I've bought in the past, which involved many screws. I've never used a "docking station".

Presently, using SSDs, I've ordered these Sabrent cases which are great and very inexpensive : https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OJ3UJ2S?psc=1

Enclosures will work with a drive in any format, it is the formatting of the drive that makes it compatible with a Windows or Mac machine, not the enclosure.
Hi Judith, thank you for your quick reply. the Sabrent i bought seems to act like an enclosure vs. the docking stations that i'm familiar with. i haven't plugged in the Sabrent just yet - wanted to get more info about "partitioning" = see below.

do the SSDs get hot? is it plug and play?

on your last paragraph, is this the same as partitioning? i understand formatting drives, but the reviewer referred to "partitioning". this is the scenario i'm curious about:

working laptop: Windows 10*
old hard drive in an enclosure: Windows XP

.... will the enclosure's software* attempt to partition the connected old hard drive to a certain format so that it could be read by the working laptop?

*i'm guessing that you would download the Sabrent app to the working laptop?
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Old 02-23-21, 11:52 AM  
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Old 02-23-21, 01:58 PM  
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My backups had become a mess as well, with multiple computers. I started using cloud storage last year, and it's made life a million times easier. I use both Google Drive (because of Mac and PC integration) and iCloud (because of Mac and iPhone integration), and all my files are available on any computer I want. No more transfers. Well worth the money in my opinion.

I do keep my workout videos on two identical hard drive backups, just because I don't want to stream them. But I'll probably start backing them up in addition on a different service, maybe Amazon's or Microsoft's, just to keep them separate.
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