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Originally Posted by pkenyon

Hi, I upgraded a IDE 80gb to A SATA 160GB. I have no extra to keep the drive in the computer. So I odered a USB2/firewire 3.5/5.25 ext enclosure. I didn't want bother with selling it or letting it sit in the drawer. I was just wondering if this was a stupid idea? I all ways thought you could never have to much drive space. Your thoughts and suggestions welcome. Paul

done it been there

eventually replacing the hard drive fer a 200 gig USB 2

Pocketbrain

Not a stupid idea. You can always drop your 160 GB HDD into the enclosure when you outgrow the drive. Great way to store your media files.

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Originally Posted by pkenyon

Hi, I upgraded a IDE 80gb to A SATA 160GB. I have no extra to keep the drive in the computer. So I odered a USB2/firewire 3.5/5.25 ext enclosure. I didn't want bother with selling it or letting it sit in the drawer. I was just wondering if this was a stupid idea? I all ways thought you could never have to much drive space. Your thoughts and suggestions welcome. Paul

Stupid? No way. I've got an 80GB external on both my home and office systems - it's an excellent way to maintain a backup strategy. Cheap, too.

-CB :approve:

DeMoBLiTzer

Originally Posted by pkenyon

Hi, I upgraded a IDE 80gb to A SATA 160GB. I have no extra to keep the drive in the computer. So I odered a USB2/firewire 3.5/5.25 ext enclosure. I didn't want bother with selling it or letting it sit in the drawer. I was just wondering if this was a stupid idea? I all ways thought you could never have to much drive space. Your thoughts and suggestions welcome. Paul

Its not a bad idea, :approve:

That is exactly what I did with my old 80GB IBM deskstar too, now its housed in a sleek USB 2.0 ext harddisk case.

In its old place sits dual 250GB 7200rpm Hitachi deskstars in my pc now. :love:

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RHC-NET

i did the same with a 20gb hard drive from my inspiron 8200 when i upgraded it to a 60gb drive.

very handy to have portable media to carry around when the capacity is greater than memory cards.

DanmanX

I don't think it's bad at all. Have more confidence in yourself!