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    western digital passport

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by sailor720, Nov 7, 2007.

  1. sailor720

    sailor720 Notebook Enthusiast

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    the western digital passport external harddrives that presumably contain a 250gb scorpio drive are available cheaper than a plain scorpio drive, can i buy one of these and open it to pull the drive out then use the enclosure for the drive being replaced?
    thanks
     
    sailor720, Nov 7, 2007
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    RangerXML Army of None [TRH]

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    Yes, thats what I did. Follow the link in my signature.
     
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    RobertDrake Notebook Consultant

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    Are they IDE or SATA? The earlier Passports were luck of the draw.
     
    RobertDrake, Nov 8, 2007
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    I thought they only had 2mb cache or something like that?
     
    BigBoy92, Nov 8, 2007
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