Re: [Hampshire] Firewire external HDD

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Author: Alan Pope
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Firewire external HDD

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On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 14:52 +0000, Chris Aitken wrote:
> Is there any difference/advantage in buying a complete external HDD,
> compared with buying ann IDE drive and installing it within an
> enclosure? Either way, can anyone recommend somewhere cheap for large
> HDDs - looked at ebuyer & novatech already.


I recently bought a 750GB disk in an enclosure from Maplin [0]. It has
both firewire and USB connections - for added flexibility, although I
don't see myself ever using the firewire port.

Cheers,
Al.

[0]
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=48872&criteria=750GB&doy=4m1