Portable Hard Drive Project

[onebxr]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822144417
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817716015

These were ordered today, I blew my budget of 75.00 but I got greedy and wanted more GB's. I will do a build of this and a review, its my first one of both so I figured I would start small. I know its a simple task, just wait I will make it hard! :)
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[gvblake22]

Looks like a nice enclosure. I'll be interested to see what you think of it! I haven't read anything on the SATA external enclosures yet.
Can you use the SATA data cable or USB then?

[onebxr]

yes either one can be used from my understanding. I will find out for sure saturday if everything comes in before the weekend.
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[stinger608]

The internal interface is SATA

The external interface is USB 2.0 or SATA.

The only thing that I see is the harddrive that you got is a SATA 2 with 300gbs, and the metal gear enclosure is only a SATA 1 at 150gbs. Not really a big deal though, as most of the SATA 2's don't hit anywhere near there supposed speeds.

[onebxr]

dangit, i thought that I got everything right. It wont effect anything by getting the sata2 hd and hooking it up to sata 1 box? I hope not or I can say i have already made this hard HAHA.
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[stinger608]

Originally Posted by onebxr

dangit, i thought that I got everything right. It wont effect anything by getting the sata2 hd and hooking it up to sata 1 box? I hope not or I can say i have already made this hard HAHA.
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Oh no, not at all!!! The SATA 2 drives are backwards compatible!!!

The only thing that it will do, it limit the drive to 150gb/s transfer rate. That is still faster than the IDE UDMA 6 that transfer at 133gb/s. It should be a great external hard drive

And Metal Gear Box is great enclosures by the way. I have sold several in my store, and have not had a single one of them come back defective

I think I sold the very first one over 2 1/2 years ago, and the customer came in about a month ago to have his desk top worked on, and bought a 120gb hard drive to replace the original 20gb drive

[Panda Man]

Originally Posted by onebxr

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822144417
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817716015

These were ordered today, I blew my budget of 75.00 but I got greedy and wanted more GB's. I will do a build of this and a review, its my first one of both so I figured I would start small. I know its a simple task, just wait I will make it hard! :)
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WITCHCRAFT! I mean, I wish I had a need for an external hard disk. I don't even have a need for flash memory really, and files I even need to transfer go to the lappy and then to the next comp, via wireless

Have fun! Remember the golden rule - if your not voiding your warranty, your not trying hard enough.

[Hitman]

I can't believe how cheap 250gb HDs are getting these days. I guess it makes sense with 1 terabyte HDs hitting the main stream market soon.

Looks like it will be a nice setup. How about more of a step by step guide with a in depth look at the features of the enclosure. I think that would be more interesting then a review.

[onebxr]

Originally Posted by Hitman

I can't believe how cheap 250gb HDs are getting these days. I guess it makes sense with 1 terabyte HDs hitting the main stream market soon.

Looks like it will be a nice setup. How about more of a step by step guide with a in depth look at the features of the enclosure. I think that would be more interesting then a review.

you got it Johnny!
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[Hitman]

Cool, make sure and take lots of pics :)