Hi all,
I've been considering (when the funds are saved up) upgrading my Pismo's
'10GB' Toshiba drive. However, not wanting to waste the old drive (heck,
I still have my old 80 _MB_ drive from my now non-working IIcx!), I would
like to get one of the Travelstar 40GB+ drives and a FireWire external
enclosure. I want to put the 9.36 GB into the enclosure and the bigger
Travelstar inside my Pismo. Okay, nothing new here, right?
But the hitch is this - it's apparently cheaper to buy the 40+ GB drive
IN the external enclosure than to buy just the drive (for internal use)
and an empty enclosure. So can anyone out there in G-Books-Land suggest
an external drive that's not too hard to open up and swap out the drive?
(Brand or which Mac store would send along directions on how to do the
swap) I have reasonable direction-following skills and have successfully
taken apart my Pismo into the main sub-assemblies (I'm not a total
techie, but can remove and replace the drive fine) and re-assembled it
without help (or a big repair bill).
So what suggestions can you give me on where to look/buy/wheel and deal?
Jim Rohde
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