Foe has a review up on a new 5.25" External Enclosure for optical drives named the Laureate and made by the people at Enermax.


Check it out here.

Is the stand for it built onto it or can you remove it?

The stand is removable. You can even use the Laureate without the stand at all, and lay it on top of your PC for easy access.

Hi:

I recently bought one.

I was in wonderful enclosing.

I installed a new Samsung 250 gb SATA 2 hdd with SATA 150 jumper settings.

Hooked it my notebook (Asus A2H which is based on SIS MB & USB 2.0 supported)

I formatted it in NTFS.(Windows XP SP2 OS)

I tried to something.

But what? I halts in the middle. Everything stops working. I pulled it USB link. Now everything in normal state.

BUT WITH "WINDOWS-DELAYED WRITE ERROR"

I tried again,again,again.... Result is the same.

I tried with SATA 300 setting. Same,same,same.....

Formerly I used ICYBOX Case with Seagate 300 GB IDE with no problem.

I made research in web; Many persons compalining about this failures.

Do you have any idea about this.

Thanks in advance.

Alp Akman, M.D.

I would really like to help you, but I am not understanding your question. Could you just state it a bit more plain? Might be easier since English is obviously not your native language.

Thanks;
Drive looks like problematic with Windows XP.

It halts in the middle of transfer.OS becomes non responsive. The only way to get rid of this is disconnection of drive.
After doing that OS reports "WINDOWS DELAYED WRITE ERROR"

My problem is specific to this external drive as I used Icybox USB-SATA box with an IDE HDD in it without any problem.

Thanks in advance.

Alp

PC: Asus A2H ( SiS based P4 M/B and USB 2.0 support)
Drive:Laureate Optical Drive Enclosure with Samsung 250 gb SATA II drive with SATA I or II jumper settings
OS: Windows XP SP2 with latest updates

Perhaps it is your drive that you are using in the enclosure that is causing you the problem. Because if I read your message correctly you are using a harddrive in the enclosure. This enclosure is intended to be used with optical drives.

Those Globs of Yellow Glue are "normal" for electronics these days. Ive seen them in PSUs and other crap like toys mostly, But its a sad excuse to use it in an optical Drive enclosure.

hmm Obviously when they cut the hole for the switch a BIT too big (maybe 1/16th off) Thus it is loose, so what better way to hide it is GLUE!.

I say you mod it with a better switch...One of those Lighted Ones...or even a toggle..

Quote: Originally Posted by Foe Perhaps it is your drive that you are using in the enclosure that is causing you the problem. Because if I read your message correctly you are using a harddrive in the enclosure. This enclosure is intended to be used with optical drives.

but isnt this drive enclosure designed to maintain constant transfer rates ??

be it from an HDD or any optical drive ....

(a friend of mine ordered his, he put a HDD in it and got the same issue.... )

starts up, starts transfering data normally but once peak is reached, conection dies and computer freezes

Since the enclosure is intended for use with an optical I did not test it with a harddrive. Since the connections are could be used for a non-SATA drive I would say it must be a driver issue. But then that would bring you back to the fact that the enclosure is made for a optical drive, and would therefore be no driver available through Enermax to download and correct the problem.

Quote: Originally Posted by Nerdz Those Globs of Yellow Glue are "normal" for electronics these days. Ive seen them in PSUs and other crap like toys mostly, But its a sad excuse to use it in an optical Drive enclosure. hmm Obviously when they cut the hole for the switch a BIT too big (maybe 1/16th off) Thus it is loose, so what better way to hide it is GLUE!. I say you mod it with a better switch...One of those Lighted Ones...or even a toggle..

I've worked on a lot of stuff, and this has always seemed perfectly resonable to me. Yes clear glue would probably look better, but its not a part thats meant to be seen. Just about any piece of gear thats meant to be moved much durring its operational life is going to have all the big parts on the board (large caps, resistors, etc) held down with glue so they dont shake loose and crack the solder contacts.

Good Review, Foe! Love the nail polish!

Sorry for my misunderstanding in my 1st post.

I didn't buy optical enclosure one, but enclosure for 3.5 in HDDs that supports both SATA and IDE drives - that named LAUREATE by Enermax

I tried it with various HDDs in many PCs. Result is not changing.

On the outside enclosure looks wonderful but, not in the inside.

I think Enermax should think and try twice before releasing HDD enclosures.

I turned back it. Finally I solved the problem.

My little advice: "DON'T BUY ENERMAX EXTERNAL ENCLOSURES TO PUT ANY HDD IN IT"

Thanks

Enermax does not have an external HDD enclosure that is called the Laurette. They have an external enclosure for HDD though. My review was not on that so I can not speak to your problem first hand. But I would suggest you try the driver they offer for download of the external HDD enclosure here.