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Suggestion For External HDD Enclosure

Started by OSS , Jun 01 2006 12:59 PM

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OSS

Posted 01 June 2006 - 12:59 PM

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I want to change my internal 80GB seagate [PATA] to an EXTERNAL HDD using a USB 2-0 Hi-speed enclosure...Also i want to know if i can use SATA hard disk as an External one...ALSO need suggestions about the Internal Structure for the HDD enclosure...Should it have a fan ...how big should it be..etc

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austin_o

Posted 01 June 2006 - 02:50 PM

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Hi and welcome go Geeks to Go. Your best course of action is to do some searches for "hard drive enclosure". You will get lots of hits. I suggest you get one that has its own power supply and fan. I have 4 such devices that I put together myself and they all work great. I have EIDE drives, not SATA. There may be SATA enclosures available. Google and find out.

Edited by austin_o, 01 June 2006 - 02:50 PM.