Kenneth Burgener wrote: > I was looking for a simple external HDD enclosure and I couldn't > remember, off the top of my head, if my standard desktop hard drive was > the 2.5" or 3.5" size. So I pulled out the ruler, and measured the > drive. It is roughly 5.5" x 4" x 1". It would seem to me that the 3.5" > size is what I am looking for, but the drive is not 3.5" wide. Why?
According to the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk)... "The size designations are more nomenclature than descriptive: for example, a 3.5" drive is named for the size of the floppy disk whose drive bay size it was originally designed to occupy; the drive itself is actually 4" wide." Wiki knows everything ;-) Kenneth /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
