EIDE External Enclosure

[nylock10]

Hey there,

I have a 74GB Western Digital Enhanced IDE (EIDE) hard drive I would like to use in an external hard drive enclosure, but I'm not sure which one to get (and I can't find many EDIE-compatible enclosures).

Would you guys be able to recommend me one?

Here's my hard drive:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=10

[yippy]

Any of the 200 in this list from Newegg (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010090092+1053807123+1054107130&name=IDE) will work.

I recommend one that has high reviews and Firewire. Which means just about anything in this list. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010090092+1053807123+1054107130+1054207135&name=USB+%26+1394)

[tuxtpenguin]

I would recommend a case with USB 2.0 and Firewire interfaces.

[nylock10]

Thanks for the replies.

Will this enclosure work?
http://www.welovemacs.com/usb2eb35l.html

If it doesn't, I'll probably go with one of the enclosures from NewEgg.

[yippy]

Yes that will work. However, there are two reasons why I would not get that drive. First, it is expensive, you can get drives for half that at Newegg that will work exactly the same. Second, it is USB only. As several of us have mentioned we highly recommend a Firewire drive as Firewire as been shown over and over to be faster than USB in sustained (large) data transfers.

For less money than you would pay for that drive you could get this one that (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817146602) has both Firewire AND USB.

[JesterJJZ]

Kinda a small drive to spend money on an enclosure for...