Both only $5 with plenty of stock
Ritmo 3.5" CE-3590 (IDESATA) to (Lan/USB2.0) Ext. Enclosure
Ritmo 3.5" CE3587 QUIRO SATA to (eSATA/USB2.0) Ext. Enclosure
Very good option for anyone that doesn't want USB3.0. Cheap option compared to external hard drives.
Manual for the CE-3590 can be found here
Review here from 2008, and they paid $74 for it!
Given its an external enclosure from an Australian store, yes it would have to come with the power plug.
These normally use printer cables to plug in, so depends what it comes with.
The lan connection would be very handy!
Yep The 3590 has: 100-240 VAC 50/60Hz 2 amp -> 12.0V 3500 mA [ Ritmo values]. It also comes with a 7 cm SATA power cable and the same data cable, a one meter USB cable [ printer type], a 1.5 meter cat5e net cable, a driver disk [Win98 SE to 7 /Mac OS 9.2 or later, an "instruction manual" designed to provide hours of endless pleasure, and a 13 cm Diankun Xuanju Stainless China cross head screwdriver with a hanle of that lovely yellow plastic that makes a great glue when exposed to petrology based solvents.
It doesn't appear to do IDE. It does also claim to act as a print server, but it seems that is dependent on a torrent download, probably no longer available.
As a foretaste of the delights the manual contains, may I offer " When the NAS located in the back-end NAT router, because the NAS just for the UPnP feature autonatically open ports, please startup the UPnp.". I'll leave the build up to "…BT download speed of the seeds of a great relationship, such as the PC cannot download…" to those who [pay for the full 43 page entertainment package.
The Adelaide Central chap strongly hinted there was a possibility of failure and mentioned that the company had died [ inscrutable my ass - I could see the relief] as he suggested I take the receipt :-).
AS a usb 2 drive, it shifted a 1.4 Gig directory from a 2 Tb in the enclosure to a windows partion on the lappy in 1:28.9 seconds, so even if the LAN drivers are a crock of manure, it's a good noisy enclosure with a nice blue light. Nice find, TY O.P.
When it says LAN, does it mean cat5 or cat6 cable?
http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attach…
Manual here
(Given this model has been mentioned on the net for a few years, I'd say it's CAT5)
Technically speaking both. Cat5 and cat6 are just cables and they use the same Ethernet connectors so they would both work with the device.
I am guessing that by cat5 you mean 100Mb/s and cat6 1Gb/s. Judging by the age it is most likely 100Mb/s.
Cat5e is 1Gb and Cat6 is 10Gb
I stand corrected.
Note that cat6 is good for 10Gb/s only for short connections (<33m from memory, we always used it for much longer connections when doing installations). Cat6e is good for 10Gb/s for up to 100m.
Cat5e is good for 1Gb/s for up to 100m.
@luka: Either way it will make not difference for 99% of what people here will use it for (to connect to their router or PC right next to where it is)
What will make a difference is the performance of the unit
Thanks OP, bought 2.
Cheapo NAS setup
Can you elaborate on why this a bad idea?
I've got all my important data on my main pc backed up but stuff like movies and tv series I don't want my pc on 24/7 just to access them over the network like i do currently
What is the maximum capacity of HDD these will support? 1TB? Or more?
I was copying files from a 2 TB over USB, but the configuration menu as a network drive only reported 1 terabyte available for re-formating, tho it did report 1.6 Tb available when I checked available directories - the size of my NTFS partitions. I wasn't game to copy to a 2Tb in there until I have ensured anything on there is available elsewhere…
As a USB drive, my system has no problems seeing all partitions on the 2Tb. The LAN side of it may have it's limitations - although the remains of the manufacturers specs I've come across reckon it supports ext3 as well, which suggests it should be able to see 32 Tb
not bad, not bad at all.
thanks for this
Out of stock at Hurstville.
The IDE to USB enclosures for $1 are a bargain too.
Not stock qld
Picked up two - pretty awesome, they have print server capability too!
I can't seem to access my share via Windows 8.1. Not liking my username and password. Tried changing domains of the username but with no luck. Might have to run it with no password
If anyone knows if a VPN can be set up on this please let me know!
LOL.. a case where saying RTFM is just being downright mean [g,d,rvf].
Doesn't mention any VPN support hence my reason for asking. I think it supports Snake OS but even Snake OS doesn't have VPN support.
Had a play myself - you can set DDNS and it will function as DHCP server, but I got put off by the fact that when I rebooted it, it also decided to take down my router's connection to the modem LOL - plus it won't take Adelaide time, and the default time server doesn't appear to exist when I tried to set it up as Greenwich.
It's also only reporting my 1.6 terabytes of Windows partitions, and doesn't want to know about Reiser, but in the configuration only showing 1 Tb available to play with. I think I'm asking a bit much from it LOL.
I did a quick search on this model and there were stories of tribulations from years ago getting the NAS part working. Probably best to be happy with the USB bit working and if you can get the LAN bit to work, that's a bonus. Being such an old model, probably the mfr doesn't exist any more, you'd be SOL getting any help for it. But for $5 what do you expect.
Might also be worth it if you need a 12V power supply brick. Might even suit my old netbook. Hmm…
Looks like all ritmo products are on sale
including this ultimate headset :)
Feels like the 90's again
Holly $hit! A 5.1 speaker system for 10$!!! Is it any good??
http://www.msy.com.au/51-speakers/15433-ritmo-s502-51-speake…
@ 2800W PMPO it should bloody well be!
I don't believe it either, but will it give a decent surround sound effect? There is a bit of discussion here - http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1174921
It seems it has 20W sub + 5W×5 power (RMS), so total 45W. The previous iteration is this - https://zazz.com.au/daily/images/1324
Ordered a few things for pickup, less than $20 :D
Reference Product Unit price
BAGHPSLIMFIT HP Slimfit Notebook Sleeve Carry Bag - Up To 15" FW941AABB $1.00 1
BAGSLEEVE12 Ritmo COMP34-12 12" Notebook Sleeve $1.00 1
BAGSLEEVE15 Ritmo COMP34-15 15.4" Notebook Sleeve Brown $1.00 1
ENCRMCE3587 Ritmo 3.5" CE3587 QUIRO SATA to (eSATA/USB2.0) Ext. Enclosure $5.00 2
ENCRMCE3589 Ritmo 3.5" CE-3589 QUIRO IDE to (IDE/1394/USB2.0) Ext. Enclosure $1.00 1
NCPRMCC713HUB Ritmo CC-713 USB Notebook Cooler Pad USB2.0 Ports $2.00 1
ACC004RMHD34 Ritmo HD34 2.5" Hard Disc Bag $1.00 2
This looks like a pretty good deal too for $10 if you need a spare laptop power supply:
http://www.msy.com.au/nsw/kingsford/universal-charger/15378-…
I can't ever recommend these types of power supplies that have interchangeable plugs on them. People who tend to screw up their power supplies have horrible times with these but they are useful to have for your workbench if you are fixing or testing lost of people's laptops
Agreed - good as "spare" but not "replacement".
Thanks, OP.
Taking a chance that at least some of the enclosures are decent. Also taking a shot on the laptop coolers @ 2.00…Worth $20 or so bucks to ship it all to my place vs. the nightmare drive to Perth, any day!
Cheers :)
Pretty useless… Remember I used to have one years ago… but it died and the power supply was non-standard… so went straight to the bin… Have invested in NAS enclosures ever since
It's a pretty standard 12V DC power supply - I just used the one that came with this to annoy the neighbours with a cheap Yamaha synth :-p
Personally, I think Ritmo is not a quite reliable brand. I've heard a few cases that the Ritmo products burnt HDDs / SD cards.
You are correct.
I wouldn't connect this to a hard drive that had important data, these are just cheap chinese junk you get from ebay.
Need some OZB help. Which one do I buy to put my 500GB Seagate Barracude in? http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-7200-12-Internal-ST3…
I use this one for EXACTLY that in reformatting SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA drives for a dodgy PVR. Nice piece of kit although it's a lot more expensive. Local supplier on eBay with fast transit times. The same item can be bought from China for less with long lead times (+3 weeks).
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/361089155343?_trksid=p2057872.m27…
Why can't I use a RITMO? I just want to hook it up to my router, TV or NUC.
Anybody with a unit care to take photos of the insides? This runs a Windows network share (SMB/samba), so it has a processor running Linux. I wonder if it's hackable.
Around 2008, I had a 500GB Buffalo Linkstation NAS, it was pretty restrictive but I installed a DLNA server to stream media to PS3 with no transcoding. Was great until the unit fell over and the drive died :(
It does run Linux and has a torrent client and DLNA support.
"I wonder if it's hackable."
The review link given [ from 2010 lol] addresses some attempts :-)
http://www.austech.info/showthread.php/4062-Ritmo-NAS-LAN-65…
I think this is a different unit. Or does the one currently on sale 2 USB host ports?
It started out on the Ritmo 650 which it looks like the 3590 was badged at, but went on to consider other units using the same generic board and OS from what I can gather. I was going to play with the page 3 ideas for dumping the OS to a file [now fire season is over] but couldn't get a second unit to sacrifice today.
Fyi the printer server works fine for my Canon printer but doesn't work with my Brother laser printer
What's the difference between the CE3588 and CE3589 IDE to usb enclosures?
http://www.msy.com.au/35-hdd-enclosure/15384-ritmo-35-ce-358…
and
http://www.msy.com.au/enclosure-hard-drive-dock/15385-ritmo-…
The 88 is USb 2.0 only, the 89 is also 1934 [Firewire] - two ports so you can chain 64 if you want to. Apple used it, and I'm hunting for a standard -> micro firewire cable to test the old Aspire transcription box. I grabbed 5 of the 89's to finally get around to scavenging my old IDE files without the pain of older cases.
They are a simple "push button, slide top and lift" and the Drives site on 4 spring/circlip loaded pegs, just the power and cable to slip on.
The 3589 has the dual volt 5/12 volt [2A each] 4 prong power units, handy for those who have a few orphaned devices around, "flypower" brand, but unlike the 3590 12V only ones, not as many symbols and missing the "safety mark" and "Testedto Comply with FCC standard For home office use (sic) ". At $1, worth it for the kettle cord and the USB cable, even if you don't need the firewire one :-)
Adelaide is right out of the CE 3590 boxen - well done fellow gannets - but North Plympton may have some when they open tomorrow for Crow eaters who dipped out.
Just be careful with Firewire - I had heaps of Firewire enclosures burn out before realising that on many Mac laptops, when you shutdown or sleep the Mac, the Firewire port turns off its voltage regulation and pumps 19-24 volts through the Firewire port! It's within 1934 spec, but many cheap (and even many expensive ones!) don't follow the spec 100%. Most devices seem to expect 12V as that's what the Mac puts out when it's awake. But when you turn off a Mac laptop and measure the output of the Firewire power pins you may find it's connected directly to the power adapter. I don't know if Magsafe MacBooks do this as I never had a chance to test any, but all the PowerBooks and iBooks I tested had this issue. They're pretty old now so maybe the problem doesn't exist anymore, but just thought I'd throw it out there.
I found out after I shut down my PowerBook and opened a hard disk, and found the voltage regulator was so hot it was melting the plastic inside the case. Out came the voltmeter and I was amazed! 24 volts through the regulator, which was near its upper maximum limit and lowest efficiency. When I turned the Mac back on, voltage dropped to 12 volts.
After that I always unplugged my Firewire devices, or unplugged the laptop power supply when it was turned off. I think I lost 8 enclosures before I figured this out. After that, none of them died. You can guarantee these Ritmo
cases will have the cheapest, most basic voltage regulation, so just be warned.
Yep - I was thinking "Firewire" and "Ritmo" weren't terms that should be inhabiting the same house at the same time :-) Still, I'm one of the old "sync. sync, sync; then power down or I'll write to the council and complain" school…
@terrys: To be fair, some very expensive brand-name cases also burned out due to the over-voltage issue!
@greenie4242: I am tempted to chain 5 together with the firewire and connect to an old lappy with USB, just for the craic, but I'll wait till the shed is clear and the extinguisher on hand..
@terrys: For $1 each what do you have to lose? Apart from your shed/eyebrows/no-claim bonus. Make sure you take a video for YouTube, I could use a good laugh :D
Does anyone know what the transfer speeds are like using the 3590 over LAN? Can it actually max out the 100Mbit/s of the LAN port? This might be useful so my family can get media from the external instead of having to power on my PC - well… as long as it's fast enough.
You should search and read some of the old postings on this model, the speed is pretty lousy and the thing crashes when too many connections are made. What do you expect for a 2008 vintage microprocessor?
Lol good luck with that. Max is probably 3MB/sec
Mine will only put out 3MB/s over FTP, samba share struggles to get over 2MB/s. I won't complain for $5 though, it's working as it should and has no real problem streaming files to my TV (abit 480p TV shows)
Has anyone got a ready to pick up notification yet? It's been 3 days now for me.
Just picked up the 5.1 speaker, Ya ya. I know its crap…
I haven't been able to get either of these external enclosures working on USB 2 on either Windows 7 or 8.
Does anyone have a link to drivers?
ce-3589 works for me on windows 7, didn't need drivers
Are you sure the drives are good? It's a bog-standard USB on that side of it - I had no problems whatsoever with Win8.1, Vista and Mint linux..
OK, I think it's because the drives where partitioned as ReiserFS. Silly me…
Older thread, I know…but I'll start here because it's the Ritmo LAN enclosure I'm asking about.
Anyone here got the BT working? I have it on my LAN but though I can load BT files & it says "downloading"— that's as far as I get? Supposedly have plenty of seed, too. Have opened the port & UP&P is on…what did I miss?
Help appreciated from those who've managed to get this running!
Ta. :)
If this includes the required 240V connection and transformer for the 3.5" SATA drive (can't run off USB power) AND the SATA to USB cable its waaaay cheap, however there doesn't appear to be any detail of just what you're getting in the package on the site ??