Portable disk enclosures
I grabbed this combo Firewire/USB2 enclosure earlier in the week, and am quite happy to recommend it.
Complete doddle to fit the “old” 300GB Maxtor drive I had sitting around, keeps it reasonably cool when running, not especially noisy, and when hooked up to a G5 iMac via Firewire it “felt” faster than the internal disk.
Of course now it’s mostly full and I’m going to have to do a bit of a shuffle when the laptop arrives, as it really should be formatted as NTFS but the iMac doesn’t speak that natively. Thus it’s FAT32 for now.
At least the laptop also has Firewire, so it ought to be pretty speedy. 7200RPM disk attached via FW400, probably faster than the 5400RPM SATA disk fitted internally, so really a good thing to be able to have 2GB+ files on.
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