08-31-2014, 11:18 PM
I posted my dilemma earlier, I was frustrated with several USB3 external cases needing to reformat the drive to use the data when you went from internal to external.
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...sg-1741480
This weekend, I decided to go ahead and make the jump. However, I purchased an OWC ministack from the garage sale (I liked the USB3/FW800/eSATA triple boot options). And it has a nice form factor including a fan.
I never delete data without having a temporary copy - just in case! - so I made a full 2.4TB dupe this week (painfully, from a USB2 connection to FW400 on an original MBP).
Turns out, that was totally unnecessary!
I installed the 3TB drive (moved from my Dell hackintosh) into the OWC ministack, turned it on, and I had all of my data in an external case - just like it was internally in the hackintosh.
I'm sure there are other drive options with this feature, but I'm pretty happy in general with OWC external drives. And this is another reason.
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...sg-1741480
This weekend, I decided to go ahead and make the jump. However, I purchased an OWC ministack from the garage sale (I liked the USB3/FW800/eSATA triple boot options). And it has a nice form factor including a fan.
I never delete data without having a temporary copy - just in case! - so I made a full 2.4TB dupe this week (painfully, from a USB2 connection to FW400 on an original MBP).
Turns out, that was totally unnecessary!
I installed the 3TB drive (moved from my Dell hackintosh) into the OWC ministack, turned it on, and I had all of my data in an external case - just like it was internally in the hackintosh.
I'm sure there are other drive options with this feature, but I'm pretty happy in general with OWC external drives. And this is another reason.