Replace External Hard Drive

[michaelrjohnson]

Howdy folks.

I'm looking to see if it's possible to replace the drive currently in my external drive housing with a new drive. I've had the drive open many times before, but I'm just wanting to know if there is anything else that I would need to be aware of other than remove old HD, and reconnect new HD.

I currenly have a 30GB EZQuest Slimline Firewire (I'm sure it's nearly identical to OWC's Mercury drives) and I want to replace the 30GB HD with a used internal HD from a PowerBook (which, according to OWC should be perfectly compatible).

Comments? Suggestions? Concerns? Thanks!

 

[krimson]

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Comments? Suggestions? Concerns? Thanks!

Should work fine, Careful opening the housing though. See previous. See Previous. Anytime.

 

[michaelrjohnson]

Should work fine, Careful opening the housing though. See previous. See Previous. Anytime.

Thanks! Yeah, that's the one part that I'm not concerned about as I've done that numerous times before.

The chipset should recognize whatever (within reason) capacity drive that I re-install then?

 

[krimson]

yup, unless it's different from the 3.25/5/25" externals that I use. I've changed most of my drives to larger capacity ones.