A question for you guys?

[vjicecool]

Hello folks,
I bought this item from amazon, i was thinking of using SSD as an external and boot into it, its a firewire enclosure, when i got the ssd, i noticed i cannot keep the SSD in the firewire enclosure. am i missing something here
please take a look at the amazon item and take a look at the 3rd pic for more details
thanks
folks


http://www.amazon.com/AcomData-Ondago-FireWire-External-Enclosure/dp/B0051BW1O6/ref=pd_rhf_ee_p_tab0_t_1

 

[Cyong]

The SSD most likely uses SATA to connect the hard drive to a device, the link you sent us looks like it is for an IDE drive.

Here is a picture side by side on hard drives so you can see the difference.
http://image.shutterstock.com/displ...-laptop-sata-and-ide-hard-drives-64206136.jpg

If you search for "sata 2.5 enclosure" on amazon you should find what you want.

I think you would lose a respectable amount of the performance of an SSD by connecting it via firewire/usb, but that is a topic better suited for someone else to discuss as I haven't used an SSD external of a computer. (Also I haven't tried booting a macbook off an external hard drive, PCs oh yeah but not Macs, another reason to let someone else answer.)

 

[theSeb]

Correct. IDE vs SATA. Also that is Firewire 400 (slow).

This is more what you would need:

http://www.amazon.com/Macally-Hi-Sp...1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1322006709&sr=1-1

However, I don't see the point in putting a SSD into an external enclosure, unless you're connecting via eSATA, USB 3 or Thunderbolt. It's like driving a Ferrari with a 40 mph speed limiter.