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pyeim
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_ 		21. October 2005 @ 06:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
We need some new hard drives and the internals are so much cheaper than the externals that I wonder how easy or hard and how expensive conversion is.

Pye
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trgrpullr
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_ 		21. October 2005 @ 08:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Take your hard drive and drop it in any one of these enclosures. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Manufactory=&Proper... .
If you are going to be leaving the external drives on all the time, I'd recommend that you get one that has a built-in cooling fan. It usually takes about 10 minutes to do the conversion. Here's a really nice one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145656 . There are cheaper ones and more expensive ones out there, but this one is great quality for the price.
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pyeim
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_ 		21. October 2005 @ 11:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
On the Tiger Direct site website there are some cheap OEM drives. I am looking at a Maxtor 300G for &89.95 after a $45 rebate. Its interface is ULTRA ATA-133. How can I tell if that will work with my computer? I have one small SCSI internal drive, two internal IDE drives 120 G and 40 G and one external firewire 120G drive.

My computer is a locally assembled 2.2G PIV with one G RAM.

OEM drives like this are described as coming without cables, brackets or screws. Does the http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145656 you descrime come with with enough stuff to install the drive?

If my questions are too naive to address on a forum where most folks seem to know a lot more than I do would it help for me to post my address in the form "john at doe dot com?"

Thanks for what you've already sent.

Pye
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ddp
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_ 		21. October 2005 @ 11:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
that 300gig is the limit of the case but should work with no problem. it comes with cd, power adapter & usb cable.
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