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Things to do with a removable FireWire drive enclosure
Authored by: krishna on May 15, '03 04:27:03PM

Great suggestion, but with nice big hard drives coming out, any recommendations for enclosure and sled manufacturers that support drives bigger than 128GiB? The sleds I've priced are $12; not bad, but sure would be nice if I could get a bunch of them cheaper than that.

Also, not all 5 1/4'' enclosures easily accommodate (physical dimensions-wise) a sled instead of a cd-rom. In particular, those all-silvery plastic ones that you see *so* many of, don't, and the one I used (not one of those types) I had to smush the sled bay in, compressing some wires. It works, but not comfortably.

A combo 5 1/4'' enclosure that has usb 2.0 and firewire, and supports >128GiB drives, with sleds, would solve so many portable storage solution problems at once.



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