> From: brobborb
>
> Hey guys my co-worker just came across this product.  
> basically, it's the shell of an external hard drive.  It has
> circuitry and a fan inside, NO DRIVE.  You just put your own
> IDE drive in there, and save money!!  A regular external hard
> drive costs more per GB.
>
> I was wonderin if any of you guys have used these types of
> products and if there are any heat issues.  I assume external
> hard drives were built for being in an enclosed case, whereas
> this "shell" just has a fan for cooling.  Anyone ever opened
> up an external ahrd drive and see what it was made of? :)

We've had a USB/FireWire external box for some time now, fit a regular
hard disk in and away you go

Works REALLY well for transporting large blocks of data without burning
to CD - as long as the hard disk doesn't fail :-P
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