Are all 2.5" enclosures created equal?

[b0redom]

Hi,
I just bought a couple of these:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=802975

and a couple of these:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=798910

They arrived today, but the drives are too big for the enclosures. What gives? To be honest at £5 a pop, I'm not sure I can be bothered to return the enclosures, but if the drives are too big to fit in any enclosure they're no use to me at all....

[dave87]

http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=603610

I got the predecessor to the product above to take the HDD out of my laptop which I replaced with a Western Digital 320gb (same physical size as the Hitachi you linked to) and it performs flawlessly

[Funkstar]

Standard 2.5" drives are 9.5mm thick. Non-standard drives are up to 12.5mm thick. Guess which size your drives are?

I had this problem a year ago when I ordered a 250GB laptop drive from Scan, it would fit in my laptops media bay.

[b0redom]

@dave87 : From tech specs: • For 2.5" SATA hard disk (up to 9.5mm high).

@funkstar : So what's my options? Do any 2.5" enclosures fit the larger HDDs?

[dave87]

Ah sorry mate, I presumed it was the same size in height as the 320gb in the same range.

That's slightly annoying

[Funkstar]

File a customer support query with Scan, they helped me out last year.

I really wish Scan would flag the height in the product description, this can't be the only instances of this happening.

Or you could have a hunt through the product description for their other cases, pretty sure some of them will handle 12.5mm thick drives.

[b0redom]

Someone from Scan care to comment?

[rabbid]

Yes it would be really helpful to have the 2.5 drive thicknesses listed in the specs, sometimes hard to find even from the manufacturer pages

[LeeP]

We'll struggle to measure every unit that comes in. If the manufacturer specifies the height of the unit either in the manual or online, we'll add a category for this but otherwise we'll struggle. We can get items out of the warehouse and check them for you, it can just take time. Give it a go though, I'll be at my desk shortly (=

[nickaal]

I think it's just these Hitachi 500GB that are thicker due to the number of platters or thickness of the platters I don't remember. They should put it in the specs but they would not sell any as they don't fit most laptops!

[b0redom]

Can someone from Scan come back to me please? Are you able to provide 12mm cases, or do I have to send it all back?