The Vantec enclosure that was mentioned is one of my favourites. It's about $35 at CPL locally, I can just shove a 7200 500G Seagate drive in it and it works great. Does both eSATA and USB and when using eSATA I don't need an external power supply as it just uses a USB port as well as the eSATA port. It's quite seamless and fast.
Regards, Greg From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2010 1:06 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] External hard drives Just remember that power is not supplied over eSATA - you will need to carry around a power adapter or you will need to carry a USB cable (if the drive is a 2.5" one, power can be supplied over USB). If this is just for file storage, then it may just be easier to get an external caddy that has USB. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2010 9:50 AM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: [OT] External hard drives My wife needs an external hard drive for backing-up and carrying around her couple of hundred MB of work files. I've never owned an ext HDD or looked at them, so before I drive down to the local MSY (parts list <http://www.msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf> ) to get one, I'd like to check first if there are any recommendations or traps to be aware of. Friends have ext HDDs with USB connections, but I suppose they are outdated now as our new office desktop machines have SATA plugholes on the back ... is that right? Cheers, Greg
