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echo: rberrypi
to: D.M. PROCIDA
from: DOUG MCINTYRE
date: 2017-04-18 16:23:00
subject: Re: External 2.5` drive f

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real-not-anti-spam-address@apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) writes:
>Roger Bell_West  wrote:
>> On 2017-04-18, D.M. Procida wrote:
>> >It would be ideal, but I need something quite a bit larger.
>>
>> Get a bus-powered USB enclosure and put your own drive into it. IME
>> you should be able to go up to about 3TB before you need external
>> power.

>I may be looking in the wrong places, but nowadays branded external disk
>drives seem to be cheaper than bare drives!

https://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/how-to-add-5-5-petabytes-and-get-banned-from-cost
co-during-a-hard-drive-crisis/

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Doug McIntyre
doug@themcintyres.us

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