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Hard Drive Enclosures

  • 03-09-2005 9:32pm
    #1
    market
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭


    I'm in the states at the minute and have bought a 250GB IDE hard drive.
    I want to get an enclosure for it to hook it up via USB to laptops etc.
    I'd like to get one that is as "plug and play" as possible without having to mess about with drivers. I'd like it to work mac/win/linux. I'm not sure what kind of issues these OSes have with recognising such large external drives. I don't care if the enclosure has firewire connection as long as it has usb2.0

    Can anybody recommend any good models that I could pick up cheap from someplace like tigerdirect or wherever?


Comments

  • #2
    Rew
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,679 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rew


    They all do that. Firewire ones tend to need drivers. Keep in mind when you format the disk that FAT32 is the only partition type common to all 3 OS's. FAT32 has 30 gig or so partition limit.


  • #3
    market
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭market


    I suppose I could keep 30GB Fat32 and the rest NTFS ...


  • #4
    market
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭market


    I also just realised that they take external power so I'd need a bloody adapter to get it working back here!


  • #5
    duridian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭duridian


    What I would be looking out for is that the ac adapter will work on both of the common mains voltages, 110V like in USA, 220V like in Ireland. Universal adapters come with some of these. For example I have a pair of Emagic brand ext. hard drive enclosures which work anywhere. Can't see them on Tiger or Newegg though, I bought mine from komplett.ie. Like was said USB2 is designed to be as seamless an interface as possible so it should work with all those OSes, but for the filesystem.


  • #6
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    You can format well past 30Gb with FAT32 without any problems. I've seen 120Gb drives with one large FAT32 partition on them. It's just a case of some OS variants enforcing a max size when formatting - they'll all use the larger partition fine (hardware permitting).

    Any external enclosures I've seen have had an autosensing external power block that can do either voltage. Normally the power cable detatches from this so it's just a case of attaching the relevant plug for your area.


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