External 2.5" Drive Enclosure..

[[GSV]Trig]

Mate of mines gone and bought himself a bigger 2.5" drive for his macbook thing, but the ones hes got is larger than a standard 2.5" drive, its 1.3cm deep as opposed to the normal sub 1cm..
So he wants an external usb/firewire caddy for it, he likes the look of the Akasa P series but they dont say how big physically a drive they can take.
I would of thought something with a fan if possible but will leave it to your guys suggestions...

[Funkstar]

hmmmmm. he might have to go for a 3.5" case and use 2.5 to 3.5 adapter brackets. not seen a fat 2.5" case.

[Lee H]

Sorry Trig, it seems all the housing we have only accept the standard laptop sized drives and not the bigger ones.

Best Regards,

[[GSV]Trig]

Cheers Lee, will see what he wants to do, hate to think how much he's spent on this drive for him not to be able to use it, 160Gb laptop drive's cant be cheap...

[[GSV]Trig]

Right, chaps just sent me a pic of the drive and its sata, didnt even know they did sata laptop drives

[Lee H]

Yeah they are rare but slowly filtering through now

We only have the 1 SATA enclosure for 2.5" drives but this is currently out of stock without an ETA I'm afraid, and this can be found here

Best Regards,

[[GSV]Trig]

Cheers Lee, gizza pm or update this thread when there in please..
Any info on the dimension of drive they take? this ones 10x7x1.3cm...