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Just found a cool little case...

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Are any of you using these hard drive cases? Maybe they are well known but I just found out about it. http://www.hudzee.com

I just picked up a box and have to admit they are way more handy than I thought they would be. My initial purchase was for short term backups. But now that I have them, I'm also using them for new unused hard drives.

Just trying to spread the love in case nobody has heard about it.



Gene Crucean
[VFX / CG Supervisor]
www.oblivionfilms.com
 
Voyager is working great here. I also have Wiebtech's old Combo dock and a couple of the basic drive enclosures. But the Voyager is the fastest to load up and start transferring. It's only fault is that the drive sits in there a little precariously. But overall a very good solution.

Weibtech also sells drive cases I believe, but the Hudzees are pretty cheap, so it's tempting.
 
CalDigit is nice as well.
 
Be careful out there

Be careful out there

These drop in drive bays are cool, I own a couple.

But do be careful.

I hadn't lost a hard drive in better than five years, and I've lost two in the last six months before I started taping these things down.

They are top heavy, the bases aren't that big, and have a lot of cables attached. People are surprisingly clumsy around other peoples gear.

Sigh...

I saw the hudzee, but it seemed a little spendy for injection molded plastic. I was afraid they'd turn out to be crap.

If anybody actually has any direct experience with these I'd love an opinion.
Steve
 
Stephen Lovett said:
I saw the hudzee, but it seemed a little spendy for injection molded plastic. I was afraid they'd turn out to be crap.

If anybody actually has any direct experience with these I'd love an opinion.
Steve
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The hudzee's are worth every penny imo. I have a bunch now and they are nicely built.

We use vantec nexstar drive bays here but I don't really recommend them. The power button on the front is a bit cheap.
 
Stephen Lovett said:
These drop in drive bays are cool, I own a couple.

But do be careful.

I hadn't lost a hard drive in better than five years, and I've lost two in the last six months before I started taping these things down.

They are top heavy, the bases aren't that big, and have a lot of cables attached. People are surprisingly clumsy around other peoples gear.

Sigh...

I saw the hudzee, but it seemed a little spendy for injection molded plastic. I was afraid they'd turn out to be crap.

If anybody actually has any direct experience with these I'd love an opinion.
Steve
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Yes, this is true and I actually don't use the Voyager too much on set for that very reason. In the comfort of my home studio, no problems. On a set where there is a chance of someone bumping into the backup station, not so good.
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
Funny. I've had nothing but bad luck with these. Had 4 of them die on me since february. I love both the Seagate and Hitachi 1TB drives, though. I'm not buying any more 1.5TB HDD's... Hopefully 2GB will arrive soon and will be a bit better.
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The 1.5TBs had some notorious issues that I believe were linked to firmware. I have one and it does behave strangely sometimes. The 1TB drives were fine.
 
Gene Crucean said:
Are any of you using these hard drive cases? Maybe they are well known but I just found out about it. http://www.hudzee.com

I just picked up a box and have to admit they are way more handy than I thought they would be. My initial purchase was for short term backups. But now that I have them, I'm also using them for new unused hard drives.

Just trying to spread the love in case nobody has heard about it.



Gene Crucean
[VFX / CG Supervisor]
www.oblivionfilms.com
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we buy 'em in bulk.
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
Funny. I've had nothing but bad luck with these. Had 4 of them die on me since february. I love both the Seagate and Hitachi 1TB drives, though. I'm not buying any more 1.5TB HDD's... Hopefully 2GB will arrive soon and will be a bit better.
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yup. those Seagate 1.5s SUCK SUCK SUCK SUCK!

3 PLATTER HITACHI all the way!
 
I use regular old VHS tape boxes. They do the job and are much cheaper than the Hudzee.
I know I pinching pennies here, but think of all the plastic trees you'll save.
 
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