[MacDV] Re: external Firewire drive recommendations?

[Michael Winter]

On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 01:23 PM, Tom Nugent Jr wrote:

> What is the motivation to buy a case, unless you have an old drive 
> from an unused computer, and you still want to use the drive?

My intent is to use them for drives I've replaced with larger drives. 
The way it usually works out though is that for less than the price of 
an external enclosure I can just buy a much bigger replacement drive. 
So instead of buying a 60 GB drive to replace the 12 GB drive in an 
iMac DV, plus a Firewire case for the 12 GB drive, I just buy a 120 GB 
drive for less and toss the 12 GB drive in a drawer.

>  I mean, buying an external hard drive is cheaper than buying a case 
> and an internal drive, isn't it?

Generally speaking, it works out to roughly the same price. IMO the 
$5-10 you might save isn't worth the hassle.

But there are times when you can find really cheap (talking $$wise, not 
quality) drives when it may be worth doing this. See some of Kunga's 
posts. He seems to be pretty good at finding those bargains. Now if 
he'd just find them is stores we have around here...

-Mike