Used Laptops (was Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL)

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On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 21:02 -0500, Jason Stephenson wrote:
> I'm CCing my reply to the list because it sounds like Christopher meant 
> for his question to go to the list.
> 
> Christopher Chisholm wrote:
> > 
> > I've been keeping my eyes out for an old laptop HD for a while.. I 
> > really want one of those USB 2.0 enclosures on a small drive, but the 
> > ones they sell are crazy over priced.  I just want something like 5 gigs 
> > or more for some music/work files.
> > Does anyone know of a good place to look for something like this?  I 
> > usually check e-bay the past few times I've looked there wasn't really 
> > anything very cheap.
> 
> I've not seen very good prices on laptop hard drives. They always cost 
> more than 3.5" drives. About the only way to get them for cheap is to 
> take them out of your old notebook when you get a new one, or if you put 
> a bigger drive in your notebook.--I got mine when my old laptop stopped 
> booting.
> 
> I found some decent USB 2.0 enclosures at CompUSA. They're by Norwood 
> Micro, and look kind of like an iPod. They're white plastic with 
> aluminum cooling fins. Also, unlike most of the other enclosures I've 
> seen, they don't require a second USB power adaptor. It gets all its 
> juice on the one USB line. I've been using it for over a week now with 
> good results. They cost about $25.
> 
I've been very happy with the HotDrive enclosure for laptop sized
drives.  Nice solid construction and the same kind of power from the
computer as described above.

http://froogle.google.com/froogle_cluster?q=hotdrive+enclosure&pid=4900696283346233720&oid=13700690154894598748&btnG=Search+Froogle&scoring=mrd
(I paid $40 some time ago)
Mine has both USB and Firewire ports.  I bought it largely for data
recovery purposes so that I could shift a 2.5 inch drive around with the
same ease that I shift 3.5 inch drives.  My daughter has it right now.
She just upgraded her laptop to Linux and saved all her old Windows data
in the HotDrive.

> > 
> > thanks!
> > 
> > -chris
> 
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