Brian wrote:
I'd like to take an 80gig laptop drive, put it in a small exclusure, and have portable, large storage.
I could get something ready-made from macsales.com, but I read a review where someone had done this using a $15 "generic" enclosure- but I've not found anything that cheap.
Has anyone done this? Have a brand and source to recommend?
I did this, bought a generic Firewire/USB enclosure from Ebay nice and cheap, looked the biz. I'm now waiting to be able to retrieve the information from the drive. The built in firewire bus kept failing and as a result this corrupted the Master File Table on the 120 gig HD inside it. Luckily in my case the information can be retrieved, although I still have to buy another 120 gig drive to shuffle it onto over the usb (not gonna trust the firewire).
In my opinion, if the data on the drive is stuff you don't wanna lose then I'd go for something branded. I wish I had originally spent that little bit more money. You get what you pay for.
In a more positive vein, I've used Iomega's external drives and they are incredibly stable. I don't know if they do an enclosure but thats the sort of standard your looking for.
As an afterthought, my enclosure couldn't handle being plugged into a mac and a windows pc. I'd formatted mine as ntfs (win) and when plugged into a OS X Mac the system wanted to initialise the disk. Not good.
Hope this helps, and doesn't scare you off.
;)
Sean DZineGuru
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