AmesMUG: Drive Enclosures

[david l goodrich]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 11:54:23AM -0500, Nicholas Meyer wrote:
> It's not for the faint of heart, and if you mess it up, no amount of  
> warranty is going to get you your computer back.

It's not?  Is it substantially different than the way you'd
access the drive in the macbook?

What are you going to mess up that would void the warranty that
can't be resolved by putting the old drive in?
  --david
> 
> If you're not comfortable messing around inside of a laptop, I'd  
> suggest just getting a large external drive.
> 
> Otherwise, yes, you can just pull the hard drive that was in it out  
> and use it in an external SATA enclosure.
> 
> -Nick
> 
> On Oct 20, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Clark Colby wrote:
> 
> >I also am looking to get either a larger external or possibly a  
> >larger internal for my MacBook Pro. Is it had to replace the hard  
> >drive and can you then buy a case for the 80GB and use it as an  
> >external?
> >
> >Clark Colby
> >
> >
> >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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