From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sat Sep 14 2002 - 21:07:41 EDT
But USB 1 is sooooo slow, this is not a good trade off
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve C." <stevec50_at_yahoo.com>
To: <THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 8:17 PM
Subject: More Travelstar E Exposed
> I did a little experimenting and found that the 8Gb
> hard drive from the Travelstar E external housing can
> be removed and put into an external USB hard drive
> adapter. That's handy and more rugged, no short cable
> or fragile PCMCIA card to deal with if you have USB. I
> got a generic external housing from ebay for about
> $35.00 although Frys sells them too. The drive is a
> rather tight fit and the case won't quite close all
> the way on mine because there is a dip molded into the
> top of the cover. It would probably fit all the way on
> if the dip was filed off on the inside. The backup
> software on the hard drive is still accessable but I
> didn't try it to see if it would work over the USB
> connection or not.
>
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