Product Description Get the performance of an internal hard drive with portability and active cooling. Keep your data safe and cool in Antec's MX-1 portable Hard Drive enclosure. A blower fan keeps your drive running cool, allowing you to operate the enclosure continuously. Simply install your drive, connect it to your computer and start transferring your data at blazing speeds over USB 2.0 or eSATA (external Serial ATA). No drivers need to be installed. The MX-1 is made with a special dual-layer design that reduces noise and is lightweight for easy transporting. Carbon-glass filled frame to reinforce the strength of the whole enclosure Built-in silicone pad to absorb noise Very quiet fan operation, less than 22 dBA Noise Level - 20 dBA with the blower on inside the enclosure Supports Windows ME, 2000, XP & Vista Dimensions - 21.9 x 14.6 x 5.7 cm
Nice enclosureOctober 6, 2008 Using this enclosure with a Seagate DB35 series drive for Tivo expansion. So far both are working great. Only very minor complaint is that the LED is very bright and lights up 1/2 my room with a blue tint.
Antec MX-1 e-SATA Hard Drive EnclosureOctober 5, 2008 This Antec product works as advertised. I installed a 160GB SATA hard drive, made the connection and it runs quiet and cool. It's just what I would expect from Antec.
Excellent, affordable enclosureSeptember 17, 2008 This SATA enclosure runs very quiet and cool. It takes USB or e-SATA and if very fast on the e-SATA. I have Vista installed on a HDD inside this enclosure and it runs without a hitch.
I don't notice any slowdown between e-SATA and the internal SATA, although I've read this can depend on the quality of your motherboard (for e-sata in general, not for this specific device) and whether it can properly time e-sata to play friendly with sata. If your board comes with e-sata ports or brackets, you are good to go. If it doesn't you should make sure it will before spending money on e-sata. This is still a great USB enclosure, but USB is a lot slower interface and will limit you to using drives as storage basically.
If you're looking for a good enclosure, this one definitely delivers. It's sleek, good looking, quiet, cool, and most importantly reliable.
best available for the priceSeptember 14, 2008 This is the only answer I have found for the expansion of an HDDvr with Directv.
Works well with DirecTV HDDVRSeptember 10, 2008 I installed a Seagate 1 TB drive into this and use it as a larger hard drive for my DirecTV HDDVR. After one month, I have had no problems.
