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<blockquote data-quote="Greg Brown" data-source="post: 39155" data-attributes="member: 1035">Re: Rugged external hard drivesI have two of these enclosures, firewire 400/800/USB2.0/eSATA, with 7200RPM 500MB drives in them, and they have served me well.&nbsp; The main case is metal but the sides are plastic.&nbsp; They have no fan so they&#039;re pretty quiet (just the hard drives themselves make noise, and I picked low-noise drives when I put them in).<a href="http://www.acomdata.com/p-262-samba-quad-interface-external-enclosure.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.acomdata.com/p-262-samba-quad-interface-external-enclosure.aspx</a>If I were you, and I wanted firewire (I&#039;m assuming you want firewire 800) then I&#039;d buy enclosures, whatever you do.&nbsp; It&#039;s cheaper in the long run, and you have more choices for drives.&nbsp; You can put in whatever reliable 3.5&quot; drive you want, whatever speed and size, including SSD&#039;s if you want no moving parts for extra robustness.&nbsp; Not that I&#039;m necessarily recommending SSD for your particular application - you&#039;ll want to research that thoroughly as they have their own problems....Hope this helps,...GregEDIT:&nbsp; I see others posted since I wrote that, was late in posting.&nbsp; The lacie enclosure you have looks pretty rugged to me.&nbsp; Can&#039;t recommend a more rugged 3.5&quot; drive than the others mentioned, except possibly SSD....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greg Brown, post: 39155, member: 1035"] Re: Rugged external hard drives I have two of these enclosures, firewire 400/800/USB2.0/eSATA, with 7200RPM 500MB drives in them, and they have served me well. The main case is metal but the sides are plastic. They have no fan so they're pretty quiet (just the hard drives themselves make noise, and I picked low-noise drives when I put them in). [URL]http://www.acomdata.com/p-262-samba-quad-interface-external-enclosure.aspx[/URL] If I were you, and I wanted firewire (I'm assuming you want firewire 800) then I'd buy enclosures, whatever you do. It's cheaper in the long run, and you have more choices for drives. You can put in whatever reliable 3.5" drive you want, whatever speed and size, including SSD's if you want no moving parts for extra robustness. Not that I'm necessarily recommending SSD for your particular application - you'll want to research that thoroughly as they have their own problems.... Hope this helps, ...Greg EDIT: I see others posted since I wrote that, was late in posting. The lacie enclosure you have looks pretty rugged to me. Can't recommend a more rugged 3.5" drive than the others mentioned, except possibly SSD.... [/QUOTE]

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