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    Just bought an enclosure off of ebay- forgot to check

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jisaac, Aug 18, 2008.

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    The listing states it supports 40G or less...that leads me to believe it might be IDE. For a while laptop IDE drives topped out at 40G, which is why the spec might state that as a max.
     
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    Good to know thanks greg
     
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    No guarantees.
     
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    I bought the same for a friend. This box is an IDE box and will work with HDD bigger than 40g. I tested it on 130g harddrive.
     
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    what a coincidence LOL, looks like I didn't waste my money after all.
     
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    forget to say. When I tested it on a Gateway MX3050 with a 40g HDD Windows had trouble recognising it. When I tested it again with the 130g HDD it worked fine. I tried it again with the 40g on a dell M20 and it worked fine.

    That to say that all depends on the power supplied by the USB ports in your laptop.

    For my self I bought an enclosure that accepts both IDE and SATA. It was tested in different laptops and no problems even in the Gateway MX3050. Can't show you pictures as ebay (UK) is down for maintenance.
     
    naton, Aug 18, 2008
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