NST-360U2-BL Vantec, Nice drive but picture..
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Nice drive but picture misleads
Having dealt only with seriously ghetto enclosures prior to this one, it was nice to get a drive of quality heft and construction. Install was a snap, and I got no complains on performance. Only quibble I have is that the drive I got is a more subdued blue, almost navy– not really very reflective– I was all excited to get a vibrant shiny electric blue like in the picture, but it almost may as well be black unless the room’s real brightly lit. Most people probably don’t care about that kind of crap but my whole computer, mouse, and keyboard light up a vibrant blue and I thought it would go nicely. Ok yes I’m a geek, shut up.
Update (2/6/2012): I also found some auctions for this item here.
The featured review for this product, Vantec NexStar 3 NST-360U2-BL 3.5-Inch IDE to USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure Midnight Blue Electronics, was written by C. Myers.
The average rating for this item is out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.
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Tags: computer hardware, disk, drive enclosures, enclosure, external hard drive, hard drive, hard drive enclosure, hard file enclosure, ide to usb, nexstar, vantec
Posted on: May 23, 2010
Filed under: Reviews
Reviews (3)
David Perkins
April 8th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Power Supply Not Powerful
Bought this External HD case from Compusa was cheaper their. This External HD Case said it can handle up to 1.5T so that’s great! I have a 500G HD that needed a new case.
Hook it up to my 500G HD that I had and it worked great for a day. Super!
Next day my laptop wouldn’t recognize the HD. I tested my usb that was fine. I then tested the actual HD in my desk top computer and everything was good, it recognized all the files on the HD. I put it back in the External Case and again nothing. I tested a 80 gig HD in the external HD case and it worked. I put back my 500 gig and nothing! hmm I took my old power supply cord from my other external HD case that I broke and Walla!! It worked! Bad power supply.
This external case would be ideal but the power supply that comes with it is an El Cheapo so I spent a day learning that lesson. I give it 2 stars because of the power supply so beware, if for some reason your computer doesn’t recognize the HD you may want to try another power supply first.
C. Myers
April 19th, 2010 at 8:24 pm
Nice drive but picture misleads
Rated 4 stars.
Nikon131
May 21st, 2010 at 8:35 am
Nice enclosure
I got the Vantec enclosure to replace my old Macally enclosure. First the Vantec is a small case. I installed a Seagate 250gb HD into this and it is a snug fit. The black front panel slides out you lay your HD in the tray in, screw it, attach cables, attach LED connection and slide back in. ((When I first got this I slid this open real fast, but be careful the LED light connection was already hooked up, I nearly messed up the connectors.))
As I said the case is slim, the HD pretty much lays against the outer Metal case and the heat is dissapated this way, no fans in this case. The blue is a nice metallic blue, I don’t know if it’s mirrored, but it’s nice. The logo you see is the where the blue LED is behind, which kind of sucks cause I don’t like alot of obnoxious logos, but thats just me. ((You can disconnect the LED and not have the light on)) I have had this case for about two weeks and have found it to be very quiet, well there are no fans so it’s really the sound of the HD.
The little stand clip is removable so you can lay it flat if you want. I read the reviews on this case at Newegg btw and went on the positive reviews there, this case got a 5 out of 5 with 99 reviews or so. (at the time of this review they had a better price on this case) USB 2.0 is quite fast. Not as fast as firewire, copying 50gb’s of data took about 30 minutes. But after the inital back up, later synchronizing is easy. Of course this might be my HD.
I am quite happy with the case, form, and size. I wouldn’t hesitate to get another one.
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