Hi Folks,
New to the forum here and glad to come across this discussion as I've been trying to solve my drive failures. On a tip from another forum I bought a Coolgear fan-cooled enclosure. It looks great, has a fan and venting, but it doesn't work (the drive does not show up. I have since bought another enclosure - no fan - just to make sure the drive was not the culprit and it's not.).
Okay, every company has a few lemons, but the problem is that this company appears to not exist, aside from their web page. I have emailed three different addresses: tech support, sales, ???, and all three have bounced back. I have called them and I get a message telling me to refer to the web site.
Has anyone else had experience with this company? Today I'll give them one last try, but then I'm returning the enclosure.
Thanks for your valuable information.
A company that makes external enclosures told me that people have perception that a fan is necessary for an enclosure and that they only still make enclosures with fans to keep from losing customers to competitors.
I am wanting to puchase an external enclosure for my Western Digital 3.5", 7200RPM, 250GB, SATA II hard drive and run a powerful software on it. Does anyone have opinions regading having a fan or no fan?
Will not having a fan but having a good aluminum heat desipation ruin my hard drive/lower the number of years that drive will last?
I am interested in the new Macally SATA enclosure. Any opinions on the Macally enclosure brands?

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