Talk:Disk enclosure

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Contents 1 Merger completed! 2 Historical comments from merged articles 2.1 Old comment from Talk:USB enclosure 2.2 Old discussion from Talk:External hard drive 2.2.1 Merge Discussion 3 Unmerging compelted

[edit] Merger completed!

This page was created to merge USB enclosure, external hard drive, and the article's old namesake into a single unified article, covering all external drives other than those covered in keydrive. The intro was rewritten from scratch to include every major point made in each of the articles. All the sections other than "Benefits" originated in one article or the other, and were only updated and expanded upon. Hopefully I didn't miss anything, but if you catch a point I didn't move over, please call me on it or fix it. Thanks! MrZaius^talk 18:18, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Historical comments from merged articles

[edit] Old comment from Talk:USB enclosure

The link: How External Hard Drive Enclosures Work doesn't really say anything about "How External Hard Drive Enclosures Work"! I'll see if I can find something more useful. Gabe 02:10, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Old discussion from Talk:External hard drive

The following discussion was in response to the proposed merger of Disk enclosure into External hard drive. I implemented the merge, but in the opposite direction, to make it more inclusive of floppy and optical drives. See above. MrZaius^talk 18:23, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge Discussion

• Absolutely not. These are completely different ideas. An external hard drive typically refers to just a single drive while a disk enclosure can contain many drives (I've seen as many as 15 but there are probably some that hold more). --Pboyd04 21:52, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Personally, I think this is being looked at backwards. USB_enclosure and External hard drive should have been merged into the now deleted enclosure. If I have time over the next couple of days, I'll take a stab at doing just that. External hard-drives, disk enclosures, and USB enclosures all refer to the same thing, but only the terms Disk Enclosure or External Disk Enclosure are inclusive enough to cover their use w/optical drives.
  • On a related note, will also redirect USB CDROM, USB DVD-ROM, USB DVD, USB HDD, USB Hard Drive, USB DVD Burner, USB CD Burner, and External CDROM, External DVD-ROM, External DVD, External HDD, External Hard Drive, External DVD Burner, External CD Burner there.
  • MrZaius^talk 17:19, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unmerging compelted

I unmerged external hard disk drive topic form disk enclosure, because the latter is only a part of what makes the former. huji—TALK 11:44, 29 December 2007 (UTC)