<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks for the recommendation, Zane. The only 8-bay USB enclosure they have costs more than $600. Does anybody else have a suggestion?<div><br><div><div>On Jan 3, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">At 10:24 AM -0500 1/3/09, Neil wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I'm looking for a quiet, reliable 8-bay USB enclosure. I asked for recommendations in another thread, but I think it is likely buried there and deserves it's own thread. So, I'm asking here in case anybody has any experience in it. Thanks in advance._______________________________________________<br></blockquote><br>I have to question how quiet any 8-bay enclosure is going to be. There is a seller on eBay that does firewire, USB, and eSATA enclosures that I like the looks of. The main thing I like is that they appear to use standard PC power supplies, since the power supply seems to be one of the things most likely to fail in an enclosure.<br><br>Please note, I've never done business with them, but they are who I would try.<br><a href="http://stores.ebay.com/Superldg-Store">http://stores.ebay.com/Superldg-Store</a><br><br>Zane</span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>