My Next Project: Assembling a USB Hard Drive

I need a huge storage device to store all my software and digital media. I shopped around for a USB hard drive. At CostCo, I found Maxtor OneTouch 750GB external hard drive for $99.99 which I think is a great deal. However, I found a bunch of bad reviews for this product. It seems that a lot of buyers found this product broken after using it for some time. Sorry, but it happens.

So I decided it's a better idea to assemble a USB Hard Drive for myself. The first thing I need to buy is an hard drive enclosure. I found a few:

• Vantec NexStar MX NST-400MX-S2 3.5 inch SATA-USB2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure supports 2x SATA I/II hard drives up to 2TB of storage.
  
  
  
• Vantec NexStar3 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure - SATA, USB 2.0, eSATA Supports Hard Drives Up to 1TB
  
  
  
• Macally G-S350SUA 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure works with all 3.5-inch SATA I and SATA II hard disk drives and has USB, firewire and eSATA ports.
  
  
  
• D-Link DNS-321 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure allows you to share up to 2 SATA hard drives in a local network using gigabit ethernet ports.
  
  
  

The next thing to buy is a SATA hard drive, hopefully 1 or 1.5 TB one. The question is the price. Hopefully, I'll find a deal when there's a holiday sale.