On Aug 5, 2005, at 2:07 PM, Joy Freeman wrote:
Harry recommended an great deal on an ATA hard drive from Fry's, then
Bruce Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])wrote:
get a controller from someplace like Other World Computing <http://
eshop.macsales.com/item/SIIG/SCMP4A12/> and another big HDD and
you're good to go.
Then get that drive on sale at Frys, and you've got a setup for <
$200 that you would have to pay well near $1000 or more for in SCSI.
And that would be better (faster, I suppose?) than if I put that
same hard
drive in an enclosure that has both FireWire and USB2 connections?
Because I
priced enclosures the other day, and they cost about the same as
that card,
and the external drive would also be useful with my iBook. Or am I
missing
something?
Well, you could boot from it if it's internal, you can't boot a B&W
from a FW drive, but having an external drive for use with multiple
systems is an excellent idea for backup purposes.
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Bruce Johnson
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