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If I read your question correctly, you're looking for a removable HDD?<br />
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The reason why you're getting no replies to your question is that nobody uses these any more and all major manufacturers stopped making them.<br />
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In the past, when electronics were expensive, it made sense to create an enclosure that could contain swappable &nbsp;hard disks. These days an external USB3 hard disk costs less than $100, so it makes no sense to use a swappable enclosure any more.<br />
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Get a few USB3 hard disks and swap these for your backups.
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I feel your pain usb 3 drives are lucky to be as fast as usb2<br />
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Made cheap, prone to fail from drops and bumps....<br />
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Tapes are the go, used to get 800mb/min out of a lto3 jp drive<br />
Of course they had their issues, atleast they were less then 20$ for each tape
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I am looking for an enclosure similar to that which Rindi proposed, though something more &quot;enclosed.&quot;<br />
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I have tried one similar to Rindi's suggestion and while it technically serves the purpose, the drive itself isn't fully enclosed and just &quot;sticks out.&quot;<br />
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External USB hard drives tend to jump drive letters whenever they are swapped and while utilities can be installed that helps mitigate this jump, the utilities aren't always reliable.<br />
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Check out IcyDock IcyBento and you will have an idea of the product for which I am looking.
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I am looking for some recommendations for a swappable external drive enclosure to be used for rotating backups.<br />
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We had been using &nbsp;a SansDigital single-drive enclosure, but then they went out of stock.<br />
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We then switched to an IcyDock IcyBento single-drive enclosure, but those have also gone out of stock.<br />
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I have a Highly Rely Slimline 100 enclosure, but it is expensive and I have had some issues with it.<br />
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I have tried a couple of the StarTech enclosures, but they are pretty minimal with workmanship.
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I am looking for some recommendations for a swappable external drive enclosure to be used for rotating backups.

We had been using  a SansDigital single-drive enclosure, but then they went out of stock.

We then switched to an IcyDock IcyBento single-drive enclosure, but those have also gone out of stock.

I have a Highly Rely Slimline 100 enclosure, but it is expensive and I have had some issues with it.

I have tried a couple of the StarTech enclosures, but they are pretty minimal with workmanship.

Swappable External Enclosure for Rotating Backup?

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.

Storage

The term "Backup" means the methods and processes involved to copy computer data (system data as well as application data) to media other than the ones where the data originally live (disk, tape, optical, cloud). "Restore" in turn means the methods and processes involved in data recovery, i. e., bringing back copied computer data to their original location. Backup/Restore primarily serves as a means of protection against data loss, be it due to disaster, corruption or sabotage. It can also be used for recovering data from an earlier point in time and even for cloning machines or applications. There is a wide variety of backup/restore software available, from expensive commercial products to free or open source tools.

Storage Software

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.