Are there any decent hard drive enclosures?

[Coolmaster]

I want a 3.5 external hard drive enclosure, since I have some hard drives in my desktop and would like to use them with my laptop too. But every one I look at has terrible reviews, saying that they corrupt your data, die after a week, overheat, have terrible performance, rip the pins on your hard drive, etc. Does anyone know of a decent external hard drive enclosure?

[FRD]

7 minutes ago, Coolmaster said:

I want a 3.5 external hard drive enclosure, since I have some hard drives in my desktop and would like to use them with my laptop too. But every one I look at has terrible reviews, saying that they corrupt your data, die after a week, overheat, have terrible performance, rip the pins on your hard drive, etc. Does anyone know of a decent external hard drive enclosure?

I don't have one myself, but I believe the Ugreen and Sabrent ones are pretty good. It's a bit tricky to find the 3.5" models though, 2.5" enclosures are sold so much more these days.

[BondiBlue]

I have this one, though mine is branded as ORICO instead. It's the same product, and it works well for me. 

[YoungBlade]

I've been using a Wavlink drive dock for 8 months now and I've had no issues. I also recommended it to my cousin, who uses it for backing up his data to a couple of 8TB drives.

 

A couple of my old Seagate drives do get warm, but the one that used to be in my desktop was always a bit on the toasty side, so I doubt the dock has anything to do with it. Plus, it's open, so all I have to do is point a fan at it when I'm doing large transfers and the drive temps drop dramatically.

[Coolmaster]

2 minutes ago, YoungBlade said:

I've been using a Wavlink drive dock for 8 months now and I've had no issues. I also recommended it to my cousin, who uses it for backing up his data to a couple of 8TB drives.

 

A couple of my old Seagate drives do get warm, but the one that used to be in my desktop was always a bit on the toasty side, so I doubt the dock has anything to do with it. Plus, it's open, so all I have to do is point a fan at it when I'm doing large transfers and the drive temps drop dramatically.

Is that one just for cloning had drives, or does it work as an external drive too?

[BondiBlue]

2 minutes ago, Coolmaster said:

Is that one just for cloning had drives, or does it work as an external drive too?

Those types of docks with cloning features work as regular docks. You can just use the cloning functionality if you need it. They're meant for use cases where you'd be swapping between multiple different drives. 

[Coolmaster]

Just now, BondiBlue said:

Those types of docks with cloning features work as regular docks. You can just use the cloning functionality if you need it. 

I think I'll get that one, since I have two hard drives I want to use.