Windows 10: Replacement external drive - should I get a new enclosure?

About 10 days ago when I ran Hard Disk Sentinel on my system it showed one of my external drives as only 19% healthy, with an expected remaining lifetime of 56 days.

As the drive, a 2TB WD Black 3.5", was bought in November 2013 and had a 5-year warranty I got the receipt and packaging, removed the drive from the enclosure, and took it to the supplying retailer. They called up the transaction on their system and said we'd need to contact WD. So while in the shop we logged in to my WD account that I'd created some years ago, noted the drive was registered, so input the faults. RMA accepted so posted it back to WD. A replacement drive has now been shipped.

As the enclosure is also nearly 5 years old, should I put the new drive in the old enclosure, or buy a new enclosure?

Any recommendations for a decent 3.5" enclosure, so many seem to be built very sloppily?

As the old one is USB 2 I'd also take the opportunity and buy a USB 3 enclosure.

Thoughts appreciated.

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Replacement external drive - should I get a new enclosure?


About 10 days ago when I ran Hard Disk Sentinel on my system it showed one of my external drives as only 19% healthy, with an expected remaining lifetime of 56 days.

As the drive, a 2TB WD Black 3.5", was bought in November 2013 and had a 5-year warranty I got the receipt and packaging, removed the drive from the enclosure, and took it to the supplying retailer. They called up the transaction on their system and said we'd need to contact WD. So while in the shop we logged in to my WD account that I'd created some years ago, noted the drive was registered, so input the faults. RMA accepted so posted it back to WD. A replacement drive has now been shipped.

As the enclosure is also nearly 5 years old, should I put the new drive in the old enclosure, or buy a new enclosure?

Any recommendations for a decent 3.5" enclosure, so many seem to be built very sloppily?

As the old one is USB 2 I'd also take the opportunity and buy a USB 3 enclosure.

Thoughts appreciated.

 

Rrelatively inexpensive external hard drive enclosure?

I've been exploring a external enclosure, as a replacement in my current enclosure, but all I'm able to manage to find are enclosures that include hard disk drives using them, and they are generally ridiculously expensive.

What drives can you use, or what do you recommend?

 

Hard Drive Enclosure

Hi Comeback, you should be able to access those files if you put that hard drive into an external enclosure . . .

When you connect that drive, does Windows actually see the drive - can you see it in File Explorer?

Open Disc Management (accessible by right clicking your Start Button

Do you see that drive listed there?