CD-R King HDD Enclosure

CD-R King sure has come a long way.  Starting with selling tacky and cheap CD-Rs they have become the purveyor of the tacky and cheap electronic gadgets. This is not to say the stuff they sell are useless. On the contrary, they’re quite usable once you get past the awful looks.

Case in point, I needed an enclosure for my 320GB 3.5″ HDD. It had been freed up of archiving duty upon the arrival of my Buffalo Linkstation. To reward it for months of hard work, I decided to get it an enclosure. The problem is that the prices ranges from P1,200 and up. Too much a reward considering 320GB HDDs cost about P3,000 these days.

So with heavy feet, I walked into one of the ubiquitous CD-R King branches. The stacks of goods were there, the line was there, the poor service was there. But I owe my HDD so I persevered and finally, it was my turn. I pointed at the enclosure (turo-turo high tech, yesh) and the sales lady showed it to me.

I checked the enclosure out and I decided it wasn’t bad at all. For P580 you get a nifty aluminum enclosure. It actually looked reasonably good except for a tacky translucent blue front plate. It the usual power cord, USB cable, driver installer (who needs those?) and a tacky and cheap plastic chrome stand. But best of all,  it even includes a tacky and cheap screwdriver. With a package like that, who can resist, yeah? So I paid for it, went home, put in my HDD, and now it’s spinning merrily away on my sister’s desk doing backup work.

Now if they can only fix the long lines and poor service…