Sweet $20 Enclosure
I popped open my 1TB Fantom GreenDrive the other day and I was surprised to find a WD Caviar Green. Not bad, the WD Caviar Green is easily $100-110 anywhere online, and the Fantom GreenDrive can be found for $120-130. In short, you’re paying $20 for a very sturdy, USB/eSATA enclosure.
The GreenDrive is a little slow for a primary disk though (it’s “green” because the speed varies from 5400 to 7200 RPM, thus using less energy than an always-7200 RPM drive), but the Fantom G-Force runs at 7200 and is apparently also a sweet candy shell around some quality WD chocolate (okay, I’m going a little far there). I think I know where my storage money is going for the foreseeable future.
