[G4] Assembling a USB Drive

[Alex]

On Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004, at 12:15 Canada/Eastern, John Erdman wrote:

> [...] Is it safe to assume that any drive that gets good marks on 
> xlr8yourmac.com for use in a Powerbook (like an IBM Travelstar) will 
> operate satisfactorily in a USB enclosure?

No. It may, but not necessarily -- the controller is quite different. 
(FWIW, I've got a couple of IBM Travelstars, saved when the laptops 
were upgraded to bigger drives; I put them in some el cheapo no-name 
USB enclosures from the corner grocery and they work just fine with 
both Mac and Win.)

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