For people that want to keep their storage in their living rooms

Feb 24, 2012 16:05 GMT  ·  By

Some people want to have loads of storage handy, from which to stream to their TVs, but they might not feel like getting specially-designed external HDDs or media players.

Enter the Orico 7662SUSJ and 7662SUSJ3, a pair of dual-HDD drive enclosures that can directly connect to a Mass Storage-compatible TV or HTPC.

Two 3.5-inch SATA drives can be held at the same time. The two bays can even be locked. Also, the drives are hot-swappable and each get cooled by their own fan.

Orico chose the USB 2.0 interface standard for the 7662SUSJ and USB 3.0 for the 7662SUSJ3.

As such, the former has a price of $71 / 53 Euro, while the latter costs $76 / 56-57 Euro.

Finally, the 7662SUSJ3 even has auto-hibernation, which spins down the platters of the HDD in case the unit was idle for too long (saves energy).

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