housing for hdd

[MadAsABadger]

At Gladiator we stock several enclosures, some are just USB 2.0 other are both USB 2.0 and Firewire. They come retail boxed with power adaptor, available in 2.5", 3.5" and 5.25". A few different designs but may be something there you like the look of.

Some of our customers report problems getting DVDRW drives to work in the 5.25" ones, but other optical drives and hard drivers are fine.

I hope that helps.

Cheers

[Allen]

Not when USB 2 uses 30% cpu and firewire uses 3%. although its more compatible i spose.

All Macs have firewire and quite a lot of pcs

Just out of curiosity, why would CPU usage matter when transferring data from one drive to another. Not all people are speed freaks though, so USB 1 would be sufficient for quite a few people.

[skattrd]

Not all people are speed freaks though, so USB 1 would be sufficient for quite a few people.

I wouldn't reccomend usb 1 for anyone - I have laptop with usb 1 and had to transfer 4 gig onto a portable hard drive, it took ages (well over an hour, but can't remember how long tbh). Then to transfer the same data from the portable drive to another pc (with had usb 2) took 6 mins.

USB 1 is painfully slow.

[Allen]

I know it is, I'm just saying that some people might not mind if they don't have an amazingly large amount to transfer, that's all.

[5cupa]

i would also pay the extra to get one with a cooling fan or good vents

[zhenboy]

there r 2 kinds of hosuing for HDD.
2.5" n 3.5"....the 1st one is laptop HDD...
the 2nd one is the normal desktop one ( normally need additional PSU)

[zhenboy]

the 2.5" with USB(2.0/1.1) connection and dont need any additional power cable...
juz plug n go... its very small in fact...