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Disk enclosure

A disk enclosure or desktop hard drive is a specialized casing designed to hold and power hard disk drives or solid-state drives while providing a mechanism to allow them to communicate to one or more separate computers.

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Benefits

Consumer enclosures

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Enterprise enclosures

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Hard-drive shucking

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Disk enclosure

Nodes69
Edges68
Triples37
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028986
Components1

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Disk enclosure

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related to Benefits · 11
Disk enclosure → Adding, Adding RAID, In, Key, Lower, Preventing, RAID, Recovering, Simple, Transferring, Using
related to Network protocols · 11
Disk enclosure → CIFS, Linux, NAS, Network-attached, NFS, Often, RAID, SAMBA, This, USB, VxWorks

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drives drive external hard used power data disk usb computer storage chassis computers enclosure enclosures network form internal connector native

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digital video recordersinstance ofas well as sealed embedded systems0.80text
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 computersinstance ofas well as sealed embedded systems0.80text
jokingly 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.Simpleinstance ofas well as sealed embedded systems0.80text
cheap approach to hot swapping.Recovering the data from a damaged computer's hard driveinstance ofas well as sealed embedded systems0.80text
particularly when it does not 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 instancesinstance ofas well as sealed embedded systems0.80text
provides a hardened chassis to prevent wearinstance ofas well as sealed embedded systems0.80text
tearinstance ofas well as sealed embedded systems0.80text
CDsinstance oftypically faster than other common portable media0.80text
DVDsinstance oftypically faster than other common portable media0.80text
USB flash drivesinstance oftypically faster than other common portable media0.80text
slower than drives connected using solely ATAinstance oftypically faster than other common portable media0.80text
SCSIinstance oftypically faster than other common portable media0.80text

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