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External hard drive
Name: Keith Date: August 7, 2003 at 15:49:40 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: 1.7ghz/768mb
Comment:
I am looking for an external hard drive for my laptop. I just bought a USB2.0 PCMCIA card so that interface will work, and the laptop has built in firewire, so that will work as well. It has to be over 100gb (I was thinking 120gb). I was looking on ebay and I found some normal hard drives with external enclosures, but I don't know much about those. Any suggestions?
Name: Dick Johnson Date: August 7, 2003 at 20:35:59 Pacific
Reply:
The external enclosures with an IDE hard drive in them work just fine. There are external enclosures that take a normal IDE hard drive and output in Firewire and USB 2.0. "Speedzter 5" is one and these that I had great luck with. And for USB 2.0 output only the "ExShuttle 2000". The thing I like about these over the cheap units is their Aluminum; not plastic. Hard drives run cooler.
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