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USB 2.0 HD Enclosures

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  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Marx Computers too i think, the last time i checked here its somewhere on the site, think in hard drives


  • #3
    toil
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    am interested in these as well.....more the external one....

    So does anyone know of anyother places that sell these?

    toil


  • #4
    BioHazRd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,088 ✭✭✭BioHazRd


    Komplett do them. More info HERE

    I got one of these myself, and it does exactly what it says on the tin.

    Bio


  • #5
    toil
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    yea that particular one is for a laptop drive.
    The 3.5" is way more expensive then peats,
    think am gonna go buy one 2mrw!

    Yellum you get one of these? or anyone else?

    toil


  • #6
    yellum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭yellum


    Getting one Saturday when I'm in dubland.


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  • #7
    Dr Bolouswki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭Dr Bolouswki


    Check out IT direct on Parliament Street, Temple Bar in Dublin - only discovered it the other day on way to pub... it looks like a totally new shop that's only half thrown together, but they had USB 2.0 hard drive enclosures for €88 or so....


  • #8
    yellum
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    http://www.itdirect.ie


  • #9
    misterq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 382 ✭✭misterq


    Bought the 2.5" HD enclosure from Peats yesterday morning. Delivered this morning.

    Works well with a spare 6GB disk I had lying about.

    You just have to connect up to a USB drive if you have Win XP or Win 2000. Win 98 requires a driver (have tested on all 3 OS's).

    The only problem I can see is that the power supply is through a PS/2 dongle which might make it slightly more cumbersome to hook it up to a friend's pc etc, but I'm on a laptop so it's fine for me. A mains power source would have been handy also, but for the price who can complain.

    The USB 2.0 gives fast transfers and no problems using a USB 1.0 connection either.

    I think I will invest in a firewire cable and try out my firewire port for the first time!

    In terms of size, it is a bit too big too fit in the old pocket, which is probably a good thing as the pcoket is hardly the best place for it. The travel case is just a zip up cover that only has room for the drive and not the cables.


    Ronan


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