Hi Pat, I own 2 caddy and my old flat mates owned 6 caddy between them. I do not know the brand but they were Normal IDE and ATA 66 caddies which had a fan in the back. I always turn my machine off then take out the caddy insert HDD then put it in the computer. I have had these caddies for over a year and recently one friend had 2 HDDs die, another had 3 and another had 1 die. Only one of these drives were not being used in a caddie but it was old. At my present work I use external Fire wire drives and I have never had a fault (being used on macs). We also have external scsi which also have not faulted. I am sure there are caddies that would not kill drives but I would ask for people to recommend a good one since it can be costly to replace HDD and evidence. Luckily most HDD have 3 year warranty but that will not bring back evidence. I like caddies so I would not give up hope. Please let me know if you find a good one. FYI - I have seen police keep their computer case open with an IDE cable and power cable hanging out. -Daniel At 03:57 PM 13/07/01 +0100, you wrote: >We have recently installed removable caddies for our hard drives to make us >more flexible in the way we store our ENCASE image files. During the first >week we have had 2 drives go down with damaged clusters. I am considering >the chance that the caddies or their operation are causing the problem. >Any ideas?, > >thanks, > >Pat Beardmore ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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