You should be able to. 250GB internal drives require, as you know, a pretty
current machine (within about 1 1/2 years). I move drives in and out of the
enclosures all the time.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Keller" <jeff-keller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> After wasting a huge amount of time trying to get a 250G drive to work in
> my
> computer I can imagine some definite advantages of the external drives. I
> suspect you'll be able to get a computer to read an external USB drive a
> lot
> longer than the latest and greatest mother board will read your present
> internal drive. So far I've postponed the decision by putting a Promise
> hard
> drive controller card into my computer and mounting the hard drive
> internally. I'm intending to swap the 250G drive with the 120G drive that
> is
> already in my USB external drive to see if it can be done. If I can swap
> the
> drives into and out of the external enclosure I'll feel there's a better
> chance of saving all the data when the mother board dies.
>
> -jeff
>
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