From: Lou (louw_at_prefer.net)
Date: Sun Sep 15 2002 - 07:15:49 EDT
FWIW, I have found the 1394 or Firewire boxes to be much faster when
transferring data.
Warm Regards,
Lou
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At 05:17 PM 9/14/2002, you wrote:
>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.
Warm Regards
Lou
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