Internal HD with enclosures

[irishgrizzly]

I'm looking for more storage and am thinking a good (cheap) way of doing it would be to be a 3.5 HD enclosure and then I can buy multiple HDs cheaply, swapping them in the HD enclosure as I need.

Has anyone done this? If so could you recommend a good setup? I'm thinking the ideal one would be one that is powdered through USB and can swich disks quickly.

Thanks

[gwerhart0800]

3.5" disks consume too much power to be powered via the USB connector. So, you need to reset your expectations. If you want a single "enclosure" that can be switched amongst several drives, then I would suggest something like:

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/NewerTech/Voyager/Hard_Drive_Dock

These are docks that you can put a drive in the top without having to screw anything into an enclosure.