hardware help

[kurtis469]

ok im looking at makeing a internal hard drive an external hard drive i know its not that hard i was wondering if anyone has tips of a tut sit for something like this....i havent tried google yet .... i figured its easier to ask :) saves time

[Dymond]

Honestly the cheapest and fastest method to do this would be go and buy a USB 2.0 Hard drive enclosure. They accomodate any internal IDE Hard drive and take minutes to set up. Open up the case, mount the drive with screws, plug in the data and power cables, close it up and your ready to go. Now just plug the enclosure into power and the computer and your golden. In XP no extra drivers are needed so a few seconds, new drive letter goodness!

*pats 160GB external HD on desk*

[kurtis469]

Honestly the cheapest and fastest method to do this would be go and buy a USB 2.0 Hard drive enclosure. They accomodate any internal IDE Hard drive and take minutes to set up. Open up the case, mount the drive with screws, plug in the data and power cables, close it up and your ready to go. Now just plug the enclosure into power and the computer and your golden. In XP no extra drivers are needed so a few seconds, new drive letter goodness!

*pats 160GB external HD on desk*



where could i get one at ????

[Santo]

where could i get one at ????


Amazon.com is your friend here ;) And either solution our great mods have is good. If you already have a disk that want to be able to move around, Dy said it, buy a usb enclosure where you can acomodate any HD, if you want storage and don't have the disk yet, there are a lot of option in the market, I use a Maxtor Onetouch II 200GB has worked great for me so far, if you are willing to spend a little more there are external HD with firewire, much faster transfer, and there is also NAS (Network Attached Storage) that you can simply plug in to your network and work like an external HD.

[kurtis469]

Amazon.com is your friend here ;) And either solution our great mods have is good. If you already have a disk that want to be able to move around, Dy said it, buy a usb enclosure where you can acomodate any HD, if you want storage and don't have the disk yet, there are a lot of option in the market, I use a Maxtor Onetouch II 200GB has worked great for me so far, if you are willing to spend a little more there are external HD with firewire, much faster transfer, and there is also NAS (Network Attached Storage) that you can simply plug in to your network and work like an external HD.


yea i know but i dont have 100 to spend on a 300 gb hd and i would love to go firewire but i have no firewire connection but i want one to transfer my home videos :((

[kurtis469]

does it have to be 300gb??

no at all but there is a 40 gig at my work that is just collecting dust

he is another question smoke/dy to get firewire on a laptop that doesnt have firewire how could i do it ???

[Dymond]

USB 2.0 HD Enclosures
http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/usb_hard-drive.html?gclid=CMD50YuFpoYCFQ9kDgodxgzHCw

I found these with a quick jump to google.. I think the prices started at around $25.


A quick search for Firewire PCMCIA cards found this:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?A=search&ci=8409&Q=&O=NavBar

This will be the only way to bring FireWire to a laptop.