AmesMUG: Drive Enclosures

[Nicholas Meyer]

The SATA connection is the same, yes. But a 2.5" drive isn't going to  
fit well in a 3.5" enclosure unless it comes with some sort of  
adapter :)

-Nick

On Oct 20, 2007, at 3:56 PM, John Rearick wrote:

> Isn't the internal drive SATA II?  I believe the SATA II connection  
> is the same for both 2.5 and 3.5 drives.
>
> While running around New Egg I found a 1 TB gigabit NAS from Lacie  
> for under $300.  I'm thinking I'm going to buy that and and cheap  
> USB adaptor and perhaps sell my spare drives instead of looking for  
> drive enclosures.
>
> Lacie NAS: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp? 
> item=N82E16822154170
>
> USB Adaptor: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp? 
> item=N82E16812101003
>
> John
>
> On Oct 20, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Nicholas Meyer wrote:
>
>> I'm also interested in this, but for a 2.5" drive; I'm pulling the  
>> 80GB drive out of my MacBook Pro and replacing it with a 160GB drive.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>> -Nick
>>
>> On Oct 19, 2007, at 8:06 PM, John Rearick wrote:
>>
>>> To prepare for Leopard, I'm looking to get myself an external  
>>> drive, however I already have a couple large IDE hard drives  
>>> laying around.  Since SATA is starting to become more of the  
>>> standard, I'm looking for a SATA drive enclosure and an IDE ->  
>>> SATA adaptor.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions for Mac friendly drive  
>>> enclosures and IDE -> SATA adaptors?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> John
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