10-23-2009, 06:02 PM
jdc wrote:
the OWC case i linked will be even quieter since it doenst even have a fan...
if speed is really your goal: realize that a dual bay enclosure that uses 1 eSATA port is using a "port multiplier" and can be slower than a single drive
When I use the enclosure in the office, I'll pretty much just be using one drive. So if it's dual bay, I understand the speed gets divided between the drives but that wont be much of an issue.
On the road, it's a different story. I batch a lot of images so I put them on one drive, the write to the other. Right now I use a FW800 enclosure for that. It's much faster to have one drive reading and one writing, even if they're in the same enclosure.
The antec enclosure is a composite material and the drive sits on a silicone bed. So even compared to an aluminum enclosure with no fan, it's still quieter.