Gizmodo: enclosures

Hanging Enclosure Concept Piggybacks a Hard Drive on Your Laptop Lid

John Mahoney — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:20:00 EDT

As tiny 1.8" hard drives continue to get larger in capacity and smaller in size, this design concept for hanging one from the back of your laptop display seems like the way to go—it's using a 2.5" drive, but a 1.8" would really be better. I've got a 3G card that hangs like this already, but piggybacking an external drive would be far more useful—especially when you have to pick up and go in a hurry. [Yanko Design via BBG]

Adapter Uses Six SDHC Cards For Voltron-Like DIY SSD Drive

John Mahoney — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:00:00 EDT

We've seen them for CF cards—now, there's an SSD enclosure that will take up to six of the SDHC cards you have lying around and tie them into a single 2.5-inch SATA SSD. While it won't match speeds of dedicated SSDs (especially if the cards you're using aren't near the high end), the boys at Impress managed 111.4 MB/s read and 55.2 MB/s write times using six 8GB cards—not too shabby for a DIY solution that will save you some money (the adapter is $90 in Japan), especially if you're already swimming in big SDHC cards. [Impress]

Lian Li Cranks Out Super Hot Armorsuit PC Case

Haroon Malik — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:50:00 EST

We just checked in with the guys at Lian Li, and we managed to peek a look at their hot new PC cases. The best of the bunch is the Armorsuit enclosure, shown in the image above. It's smoking. The case has a solid aluminum construction (with plastic side windows), nine 5.25-inch device bays (including two 3.5" x 3 HDD cages), three LED fans, LED lined heat exhaust and liquid pipe inlets for solvent cooled systems. If that doesn't sound great; check out the gallery, revise your opinion and eat humble pie.

Lian Li has been busy at work; they have an entire product refresh that is expected to drop soon. Unfortunately, the website is yet to be updated, but the new range will consist of at least 10 new models. As we said, the big daddy is above, but if you want something a bit more moderate, Lian Li has you covered. (Check the gallery for different iterations of the above Armorsuit.) [Lian Li]

Media Tank Holds Your HDD, Optical Drive, Card Reader

Adam Frucci — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:36:03 EST

This Media Tank holds an optical drive and a hard drive and has a built-in card reader for a whole slew of different memory card formats. It seems to be a great home base for people with ultra-portable laptops, letting them keep all their high-storage, media-burning capabilities on their desk for when they aren't out in the field.

We saw this a long time ago, but the price has been cut from $263 to $90. The price tag still seems kind of steep for something you need to buy two drives to stick into, but it's certainly closer to reasonable than it was before. –Adam Frucci

Product Page [Crave]