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invasian

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Jun 7, 2007
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I have a western digital sata drive that is currently in my desktop. I recently got the srmbp and now want to use that drive as an external. After reading some previous posts, my main question is what are some of the issues that I/you should consider before buying an enclosure? I guess some of the main ones include heat/noise, connection type. What else?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817423006

I'm thinking of getting this one from newegg. It supports both SATA and IDE and it's usb 2.0. It'd be nice if it had firewire too, but I think that gets more expensive.

Also, are most enclosures compatible with OSX even though they don't say so?
 
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