30 Aug 2003, 04:06, Roy J. Tellason (1:270/615), wrote to Wayne Chirnside:

Hi Roy.

 WC>> I'd _really_ like it if they made a USB hard drive that was 
 WC>> identical to an internal drive but made it so it was a drop in to 
 WC>> a USB external interface box, a kind of external adapter setup.

 RJT> Are they making them different?  Sticking different electronics 
 RJT> on the drive itself?  I've seen those things advertised,  but 
 RJT> haven't really looked at them price-wise to see how they compare 
 RJT> with regular drives (though sometimes they do seem to get pretty 
 RJT> close) and I have no idea about the innards of them.

What's "different" it the external cases!  All fancy gaudy shapes
and sizes, and mostly put together with no screws nor any way to find out
how to get the innards out without destroying something.  Since most of the
drives require +12V, an external adapter must be used also.


     Good luck...  M.

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