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MacMini2009 said:
I would do number 1.
Buy this enclosure http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/USB2/OWC_Express
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Wow those are nice. Sorry I'm a noob to this too. Been wanting to go OP's route as well. Would you say these OCW enclosures are the most popular among the mac crowd?
 
adamk77 said:
So I've decided to go with Firewire 400. I've settled on this external enclosure http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817347013. This one does both USB 2.0 and Firewire 400, which is good in case I need to hook it up to a machine that does not have Firewire 400.
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Since your computer has FW800, you should get a FW800 enclosure; I don't know what your budget is, but if you can afford it, may I suggest an enclosure with an Oxford chipset—fast, reliable, overall best chipset for Firewire money can buy.

Personally I have one of these:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/MSTG800U2K/

Again, excellent in every way.
 
thegoldenmackid said:
The latter...
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Isn't the superdrive connection faster than that of the HDD? I seem to have read that somewhere and concluded that it would be best to put the SSD in place of the optical drive, leaving the HDD where it is. I can't find that reference anymore though...

The difference was SATA versus EFI maybe? I know little about these things.
 
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