> It seems that there is a definite need... "Drive skins".... ;)

> Even something adhesive for the board side would probably be welcomed by techs
> who pop them in and out and stack them on the shelf, waiting for the next
> customer. I've seen some shops that _definitely_ need such.

I resemble that. Quick look in office, Hmm, 18 bare drives. Some few
dead and hoping for future resurrection, a few IDE PATA, most SATA.
Pop in cage on desktop. Sizes range from 500 GB down. The few 1TB and
1.5TB are in PC or USB cases.

Where I want an external USB drive I've taken to buying "name brand"
USB2 black bricks that come in the disk manufacturer's bade engineered
case with their psu and their drive. Often no dearer than mix and
match do-you-know-where-your-USB2-drive-controller-came-from
alternatives. Segate is the most non-user-interactive device I've ever
seen. No manual (there is a multilanguage sheet but it has NO useful
information - and it's not needed. There is a connection diagram.  No
fan. Hardly gets warm. No on/off switch. No install software. Plug it
in 1st time and it doesn't even do the usual found this found that
installing xxx - just spins up for a few secinds and then PC announces
that dive has been installed. Painless and seamless so far (6
months?). WD1.5 TB almost as transparent.

I have several "Phlips" branded USB2 external cages which have to go.
Identical except for badges to no name clones. Noisy or dead fans, hot
regardless, slow & poor startup, etc. Philips' great name has been
severely streched with these - may well have nothing to do with them
at all.

 R
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