Rob,
find an external enclosure with screws and you can remove and replace the
drive as you wish. The ones without screws have snap-together (or
'snap-off') tags and lugs which usually come apart if you're bold enough to
find the right place to insert a thin flat screwdriver.
My plan B a while ago was to switch to 2.5in laptop drives on my old P4
desktop. That should open up more stock and prices. You may need a
converter cable to downsize the connectors for IDE drives - I got mine off
Amazon. SATA connectors and cables are easier. It'll still work out cheaper
than current price of 3.5in drives.
--
Rgds
RC
Robin Catling
Full Circle Podcast
On 6 November 2011 19:51, Rob Malpass <linux@???> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: hampshire-bounces@??? [mailto:hampshire-
> > bounces@???] On Behalf Of Jacqui Caren
> > Sent: 06 November 2011 19:35
> > To: hampshire@???
> > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] The Price of Hard Drives
> >
> > Another discussion on other lists was buying cheapish external drives and
> > removing the HD.
> > Evidently PCworld now has some of the best prices - bette rthan amazon
> who
> > is currently one of the "out of stockers"...
>
> That's an interesting point - does anyone know how easy this is to do?
> They all seem to be moulded units to me. I've ended up with a 1tb
> external
> bought only around April 2011 which I've no great use for. I've never
> tried booting from USB and the barebones thing I'm buying doesn't tell me
> about its BIOS. Do most modern motherboards support booting from USB?
>
> Cheers
> Rob
>
>
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