Not all harddisk enclosures are created equal

Even with the exact same specification, some hard disk enclosures are sure better than the other.

I brought this 3.5 inch hard disk enclosure from Hong Kong, and this piece of crap simply pisses me off. It has some sort of generic "Hi-Speed" label on the silver case, but basically it's a USB 2.0 (no eSATA) external hard disk enclosure. However, once I used it for a while I started to find out stuff that is crappy about this enclosure.

I used to use it as Z: drive on my netbook (EeePC 900) so that I could use it as sort of a NAS. However, this darn thing would, when frequently accessed either by accessing tons of file from it or use it as a BT temp drive, would hang up. The enclosure light would stay red, and the machine that hosted it would got hung. I had to turn the drive off and on in order to get rid of the red light and released the hosting machine.

I strongly believe that the problem is on the enclosure and not the 1Tb hard disk that it hosted. But I can't prove it anymore since the 1Tb was tossed in an accident 2 days ago. Sigh.

Also this enclosure will emit anonying interference when used as a Wii external hard disk. I tried another hard disk enclosure with the SAME 500Mb Hard disk, and I didn't experience the problem. The it's definitely the "Hi Speed" hard disk enclosure that screwed thing up.

I will probably never buy hard disk enclosure from Hong Kong anymore.