> For important systems, I think a USB hard drive will be a better > choice than an empty enclosure. > > They are also often cheaper than a new empty enclosure and a new hard > drive.
Indeed, buying a brand-name external USB2/3 hard drive, which is invariably implemented as a SATA drive in an enclosure, is often cheaper these days than buying the exact same drive as a SATA drive. Check prices at http://newegg.com if they sell in your country. The Internet Archive, with 10+ Petabytes of spinning drives, buys hundreds of drives at a time, and these days they usually have hundreds of discarded enclosures and power supplies to recycle to local hackers. :-/ John _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
