In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Binba <drorworld@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Heat and ability to replace are reasonable reasons to keep PSUs
> external, although I've never experienced one of this new, lightweight
> PSUs fail. External enclosures are sleek, until I have to lug around
> that brick with its cables, which ends up taking more volume than the
> drive. I'm sure that if I designed my own little enclosure, sticking
> the PSU to the case would be the first thing I'd do.

It is also a safety problem. The exteral enclosures are a bit bulky
because of insulation. If you put them into an enclosure, the enclusure
would have tpo be able to take that bulk, makink it look far less
sleek. But in princple, I agree with you.

> There's nothing that supports 1394 but not USB, but somehow all 1394s
> offer daisy-chaining and no USBs offer extra ports, and not all
> computers have an abudance of either.

That is because it FireWire supports daisy-chaining, while USB does
not. In FireWire you get the daisy-caining capablity very, very cheap
with the interface-chip. For USB, you have to put in a basically
separate USB HUB. Personally I thk thet FireWire is a significantly
superiour design to USB. Side note: FireWire can deliver enough
power for a normal 3.5" HDD in the high-power port.

> Anyway, all this went totally off-topic... I was asking for specific
> MODELS that you'd recommend from your experience.

If you put in low-heat HDDs (Samsumg!), the AGROSY enclosures
are cheap and functional. Not too pretty, though.

Arno