AmesMUG: Drive Enclosures

[Jonathan Salvador]

It's not hard to replace the hard drive, but you do have to be *very*  
careful and use the correct tools, or course.  I know someone who  
replaced the drive in their Powerbook so often that they stripped the  
screws.  His solution to that was just to get a new Macbook Pro,  
though :-p

If you want to try it, you can use the excellent guides available at:
http://www.ifixit.com/

And for the drive you'll be taking out of your MacBook Pro, any 2.5"  
SATA enclosure should do; like these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx? 
Submit=ENE&N=2000090092%201053807124%201054107131&bop=And&Order=RATING



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Jonathan Salvador
jonny at iastate.edu

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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