Bus Powered FW Hard Drive Recommendations
I'm looking for bus powered external firewire hard drives for $300 or less. Does anyone know a good source for the full size drives? The bus powered notebook sized drives have been around a long time, but they're too expensive for the sizes I'm looking to get. The full sized drives no longer require an external power supply though, if they're in the right cases.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?
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FWIW, I've had very good luck with this portable drive.
Why the push for a full sized drive? RPMs? I don't think you're going to find a bus-powered drive at the same price/capacity of a powered drive. If you do though, let us know.
Actually I'm considering selling mine for an AC-powered desktop drive because I have a desktop now and I wouldn't mind having a faster, larger drive. I want to get a couple more paychecks first though.
Where did you get the parts? I want exactly what you want, a cheaper internal drive in a decent case. I don't need speed, just girth.
EDIT: the WiebeTECH looks pretty good...
eMac/1 GHz/Combo/128 MB/60 GB
Luca, hold off on the HD and buy some RAM, my boy!! Does OSX even BOOT with 128MB??
Originally posted by Not Unlike Myself
My first reaction would be to say "Get an iPod". But then I wake up.
Have one. Now I need oodles of space to store my converted CDs. I need at least 80 GB of space, 120 GB preferred.
Thanks for the NewEgg advice too...
To put it in perspective, the eMac with 128 MB of RAM is only very slightly slower than my iBook when it had 640 MB of RAM.
I have plenty of hard drive space from the two drives, mainly I want to make the external hard drive faster rather than larger.
HITACHI NOTEBOOK HARD DRIVE 80GB 4200RPM PART# 08K0635 - OEM, DRIVE ONLY
Specifications:
Form: 2.5 Inch 9.5mm Height
Size: 80 Gigabytes
Interface: IDE ULTRA ATA-6
Seek time: 12.0ms
RPM:4200
Cache 8MB
OEM(Drive alone) 3 Year Manufacturer Warranty: IC25N080ATMR04 Model#: IC25N080ATMR04
Price: 215.00
CompuCable FireXpress 2.5" Silver External Hard Drive Enclosure for USB2.0/1.1/1.0/FireWire, Model FXU2-EB-25S - Retail
Features:
Provides IDE to FireWire and IDE to USB 2.0 conversion in one external enclosure kit
Supports 2.5" Notebook size IDE hard drive (supports 9.5mm height, such as IBM 80GB)
Supports IDE ATA100/66 protocol
Interface Connectors: Model#: FXU2-EB-25S
Price: 63.00
So, for 268.00, that's a nice little kit. Damn. Might just have to get one for myself.
Not a bad look either:
NewEgg search page.
Is it bus powered?
Also, you'll have to put the two together...but, again, nothing too much to handle. Every external case I've ever dealt with comes apart and back together again pretty easily.
Also, it's a 2.5" enclosure. I know you were looking for a full sized drive, but IMHO this is a pretty sweet deal, and much more portable.
[edit]: Here's the enclosure's product page.