[ale] usb external drive recommendations needed

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Tue Feb 13 12:50:05 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 08:37 -0500, Pete Hardie wrote:
> On 2/12/07, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> > MicroCenter has an external case that takes a SATA drive. Case is about
> > $40 for the USB2.0/eSATA version. Add your own SATA drive (300GB ~
> > $100).
> 
> Slightly tangential question - that case gets you USB2 transfer rates,
> and the SATA
> drive is just a nice way to have consistent drive formats should you
> need to put on into the machine directly?

Case has both USB2 AND eSATA. Only takes a SATA drive internally. 
> 
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