Benefits
Key benefits to using external disk enclosures include:
- Adding additional storage space and media types to small form factor and laptop computers, as well as sealed embedded systems such as digital video recorders and video game consoles.
- Adding RAID capabilities to computers that lack RAID controllers or adequate space for additional drives.
- Adding more drives to any given server or workstation than their chassis can hold.
- Transferring data between non-networked computers, humorously known as sneakernet.
- Adding an easily removable backup source with a separate power supply from the connected computer.
- Using a network-attached storage-capable enclosure over a network to share data or provide a cheap off-site backup solution.
- Preventing the heat from a disk drive from increasing the heat inside an operating computer case.
- Simple and cheap approach to hot swapping.
- Recovering the data from a damaged computer's hard drive, particularly when it doesn't share the same interface with the computer used to perform the recovery.
- Lower the cost of removable storage by reusing hardware designed for internal use.
- In some instances, provides a hardened chassis to prevent wear and tear.
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