I am about to pull the trigger on this, however I need to choose an external enclosure so I can clone my drive using CCC (my favorite app ever)
Right now I have a hitachi 320gb 5400rpm in my computer.
What external enclosure (usb) can I get to do this. Technically if I want to clone TO the external I would need one that supports 500gb, but is there I way I can have my old drive in the external and the new one in the computer and then use CCC?
I am planning to get one of the OWC FW800 shells and place my old 320GB 7200RPM into it.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/on-the-go
If you scroll down on the right side they sell the enclosures by themselves. They have a PATA and SATA so make sure you look at the right version.
They have a USB only, USB/FW400, and USB/FW800 SATA models with self power from the port.