External Portable Hard Drives
Sledgehammer70
California Icrontian
External Portable Hard Drives.
The last few weeks I have been hunting down an External HD solution for a few of my clients that was relatively inexpensive and easy to use. I was looking for a USB powered small External HD that could easily fit in a pocket or be carried in a hand without much notice. So I did a ton research and I think I have found a perfect solution for around $70.00 - $90.00.
As I hunted the normal PC hardware sites I started to find that a small form factor case was hard to find, or one that fit the needs I had to meet. But after a few hours I found a perfect case at www.Newegg.com this case was $9.99 and was a perfect fit, as it is very small and slim and could easily be carried anywhere without issue.
SABRENT SBT-EKU25 External Enclosure
This bad boy is able to hold any ATA 2.5” drive you can find, and it is pretty stable, I wouldn’t recommend dropping it to often but for $9.99 you can’t go wrong. But this item fit my needs and even meets a few needs I didn’t need but were perks. I know little lights are not to of line or a bling bling item, but this case has a nice led light that blinks red when being accessed and green when idle. I think it is a good thing to have. And for Sabrent to have it included for $10.00 item I can’t complain.
Now that I have found the case, I now need a Hard Drive. These days you can find hard drives all over the net for all sorts of prices. In this certain hunt I was looking for a hard drive that was around 80Gigs. Well I seem to always stumble on www.Newegg.com at the right times as I was able to pick up a Western Digital ATA 80GB HD for just under $56.00 in one of there 6 hour sales. I know this item isn’t the price I quote above now, but this HD runs so quite. I mean I thought it was broken it was so quite, and I have yet to feel any heat off the case from the hard drive even after accessing it for a few hours. I would have to say I would be willing to pay full price for the hard drive any day.
Western Digital Scorpio 80GB 2.5" ATA-6 Notebook Hard Drive
So I had 3 clients that wanted 4 of these types of external systems for there personal and work use, so I ordered all the parts from Newegg at the sale price’s and received everything the next day. I opened the package’s with ease and assembled the 15 External setups “I charged enough to make cash and build me a few “. It took maybe about 25 minutes total and I just connected each one to the USB 2.0 ports and did some Drive management and had these things rolling in no time.
So for under $90 you can make yourself a nice external hard drive, the cost in savings is huge and you get so much more. As I checked online for 80GB small form factor solutions I was looking at $189.00-$200.00+ dollars. I cut the cost over ½ the amount. Also my new solution was smaller than any other setup I could find. If you need an external solution go this route it is cheaper and better.
The last few weeks I have been hunting down an External HD solution for a few of my clients that was relatively inexpensive and easy to use. I was looking for a USB powered small External HD that could easily fit in a pocket or be carried in a hand without much notice. So I did a ton research and I think I have found a perfect solution for around $70.00 - $90.00.
As I hunted the normal PC hardware sites I started to find that a small form factor case was hard to find, or one that fit the needs I had to meet. But after a few hours I found a perfect case at www.Newegg.com this case was $9.99 and was a perfect fit, as it is very small and slim and could easily be carried anywhere without issue.
SABRENT SBT-EKU25 External Enclosure
This bad boy is able to hold any ATA 2.5” drive you can find, and it is pretty stable, I wouldn’t recommend dropping it to often but for $9.99 you can’t go wrong. But this item fit my needs and even meets a few needs I didn’t need but were perks. I know little lights are not to of line or a bling bling item, but this case has a nice led light that blinks red when being accessed and green when idle. I think it is a good thing to have. And for Sabrent to have it included for $10.00 item I can’t complain.
Now that I have found the case, I now need a Hard Drive. These days you can find hard drives all over the net for all sorts of prices. In this certain hunt I was looking for a hard drive that was around 80Gigs. Well I seem to always stumble on www.Newegg.com at the right times as I was able to pick up a Western Digital ATA 80GB HD for just under $56.00 in one of there 6 hour sales. I know this item isn’t the price I quote above now, but this HD runs so quite. I mean I thought it was broken it was so quite, and I have yet to feel any heat off the case from the hard drive even after accessing it for a few hours. I would have to say I would be willing to pay full price for the hard drive any day.
Western Digital Scorpio 80GB 2.5" ATA-6 Notebook Hard Drive
So I had 3 clients that wanted 4 of these types of external systems for there personal and work use, so I ordered all the parts from Newegg at the sale price’s and received everything the next day. I opened the package’s with ease and assembled the 15 External setups “I charged enough to make cash and build me a few “. It took maybe about 25 minutes total and I just connected each one to the USB 2.0 ports and did some Drive management and had these things rolling in no time.
So for under $90 you can make yourself a nice external hard drive, the cost in savings is huge and you get so much more. As I checked online for 80GB small form factor solutions I was looking at $189.00-$200.00+ dollars. I cut the cost over ½ the amount. Also my new solution was smaller than any other setup I could find. If you need an external solution go this route it is cheaper and better.
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At this price tho im gonna go on for sure ! Small, low priced and stable, im in
Im gonna take a look this week to see if i can get those pieces from a canadian store.
Good job Sledge :headbange