External hard drive caddies....

[Snow-Munki]

Hi,

interested in getting one of these to house my spare 40gig harddrive to backup files easily.

was wondeing if anyone has one and what their experience with it is like, i assume i'll get a USB 2 one so the transfer speeds will be 'ok' and its powered externally right ?

i've seen this one:

http://www.megadataonline.co.uk/en/p...&scid=0&pid=37

seems pretty good at under £30 with free delivery, what do you guys reckon ?

then later on i'll get a 200 gig £70 harddrive

Oh and do they need special software and can they be plugged in and out whilst the pc is on ?

Thanks

[MAS]

Have you had a look at the Icy Boxes? They look quite nice, and are a similar sort of thing.

[Snow-Munki]

thanks yeah looks quite cool, and found a place that sells them for less than £30 inc delivery

[Snow-Munki]

oh just a quick question, do ALL of these types of devices need an external power supply ?

as that would be the only bad point i can see really..

[zaphod]

The icebox uses an external power supply with an average sized power converter too.