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    Good external HD enclosure for new MBP!!

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by xDanx, Nov 8, 2007.

  1. xDanx

    xDanx Notebook Enthusiast

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    I not really familiar with external hard drive enclosures so I figured I would ask you guys. My new MBP should be arriving here within a week and I have a left over hard drive from my old laptop that was stolen last week. I believe its IDE and about 60gb nothing too extravagant. My question is what is a good external HD enclosure that would be compatible with the mbp. I just would like to use the external drive to try out some linux distros and maybe windows and use my internal drive for just the osx goodness. Thanks in advance.

    Dan
     
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  2. zadillo

    zadillo Notebook Virtuoso

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    I like the ones sold by OWC ( http://www.macsales.com). Honestly though, pretty much any external enclosure with USB 2.0 and/or Firewire would be fine.

    I'm not totally sure though if you can boot Windows or Linux off of an external drive though.
     
    zadillo, Nov 8, 2007
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  3. Eleison

    Eleison Thanatos Eleison

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    I'm going to second Zadillo and say that I'm not sure you can boot to Windows off of an external drive. Linux SHOULD work, as long as the Macbook doesn't have hardware controls that prevent booting from a USB device, but I would just as soon go with Knoppix, Ubuntu, or any of 100 other distros that use LiveDVDs.
     
    Eleison, Nov 8, 2007
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  4. system_159

    system_159 Notebook Deity

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    I just got an external Vantec case and I love it. It's very easy on the eyes and I really like that it can be powered from bus or via 5v adapter(doesn't come with it though...). The best thing about it, though, is how secure the hard drive is in there. It just wont move at all! I've dropped this thing down a flight of stairs already and the hard drive was still perfectly secure. Good stuff.
     
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  5. Eleison

    Eleison Thanatos Eleison

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    :eek: I wouldn't be worried about the hard drive being secure...I'd be more worried about the drive still being usable!
     
    Eleison, Nov 8, 2007
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