In recent years there have beed IDE drives followed by SATA drives. If the case containing the 300 gig hard drive is only usb 1 I'm guessing it is of the IDE era as usb 1 has been largely replaced by usb 2 in recent years. (Although 300 Gb was rare at that time)
A new 1 Tb drive is most likely a SATA drive.
Physical size is the other consideration. Most Desktop machines or externally
powered Hard drives were 3.5". Most laptops or USB powered external drives are
2.5"
You need to determine both the type of drive and the physical size before you
can be certain they are interchangeable.
Having said that I bought an external 2.5" SATA HD enclosure off eBay for about
$8 delivered. Why don't you see if you can purchase an enclosure once you know
what type of drive you've got and keep them both?
Regards,
Eugene
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On 22/05/2010, at 12:52 PM, wyv...@iinet.net.au wrote: > > Hi All > > I freely admit sometimes I get confused while at other times I have these > strange moments of clarity....which I am in at the moment is anybody's guess. > However I have every confidence in you guys and KNOW I'll get the correct > answer. > > I currently have a 300gig external HD and am looking at getting a you beut > 1tb. > > Can I simply remove the 300gig drive from the Welland Sunbright 3.5 combo > [usb1 and firewire] case and replace it with the 1tb drive? > > Yvonne > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >
