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Jan 21, 2003

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Hey!
I was wondering if ur store carries the IOMEGA portable harddrives...
What are the prices for 20Gb and 30Gbs?
Thanks!

Jan 23, 2003

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Msoft you there ??

Jan 23, 2003

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Haha, no not there 1:30AM... I have portable HDD enclosures that allow you to pop in IDE drives. $40 for USB enclosure, plus cost of HDD. 20GB, 30GB are end of life, shouldn't get them. 40GB 7200RPM Maxtor is $125. Prices plus tax.

If you want brand name portable HDDs, Costco has some you should check them out!

(I gotta stop pointing ppl to Costo, heh heh, but the thing is they do have fantastic unit prices for stuff they carry; I make virtually nothing on parts alone, I will only be able to do good prices on system or parts over $500)

Jan 23, 2003

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hey Msoft, about the HDD/IDE enclosure, how does it connect, through printer port? USB? I have a SONY VAIO Superslim 505, and I just effed up the windows installation.... tried booting from DOS and make MS Network connection to my home network, to no avail...

and I have no external CD Drive...

so my question is, is the enclosure DOS compatible?

Jan 23, 2003

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Thanks..I need more space for my laptop...and just something smaller (and lighter) than my laptop that i can port my files to and from other laptops/desktops...

So Costco it is..=)
Thanks!

Also, sorry, I didn't know u didn't get commission on parts...! [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/IMG]

Jan 23, 2003

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hey Msoft, about the HDD/IDE enclosure, how does it connect, through printer port? USB? I have a SONY VAIO Superslim 505, and I just effed up the windows installation.... tried booting from DOS and make MS Network connection to my home network, to no avail...

and I have no external CD Drive...

so my question is, is the enclosure DOS compatible?[hr]

I thought the Superslims have docking stations with CD-Roms?

Jan 23, 2003

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so my question is, is the enclosure DOS compatible?[hr]

I thought the Superslims have docking stations with CD-Roms?[hr]

it's an older model without docking bay capability

Jan 23, 2003

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Well, the external HDDs are USB. As to your notebook prob, I think you should get external USB CDRom.

Also, I do have notebook HDDs too for those who need it.

Jan 23, 2003

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hey so I can use that to connect to IDE CD ROM, say instead of IDE HDD?

DOS compatible?

Jan 23, 2003

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Then you need a 3.5" enclosure, which I don't have readily. You will be better off just buying an external burner that you can use as CDRom.

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IDE extension cable would work?

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You will be better off just buying an external burner that you can use as CDRom.[hr]

Yeah, why don't you get an external burner...
Should be 200-300 bucks..
You get space, AND CD-Burning capabilities! =)
And it's portable! You can plug it in anywhere...

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You will be better off just buying an external burner that you can use as CDRom.[hr]

Yeah, why don't you get an external burner...
Should be 200-300 bucks..
You get space, AND CD-Burning capabilities! =)
And it's portable! You can plug it in anywhere...[hr]

I have to buy a SONY branded drive that connects through PCMCIA.

otherwise the recovery disk wont be recognized.

although there's a workaround.

I'd rather do this the cheap way.
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