12-01-2007, 10:01 PM
[quote ka jowct]For myself, I bought an OWC Aluminum FW800/400/USB enclosure, which matches the new towers nicely, and I used one of my older IDE drives that I had in my previous G5 to complete the device. It has been working perfectly for my backups for some time now.
Why not do the same thing for your fried? Buy a nice enclosure and look for a good deal on an drive to put into the enclosure?
I think you will get a better warranty on the hard drive that way than you will if you buy an already-assembled external drive.
I've never worked on a newer iMac, so I don't have any idea how easy or difficult it is to install a larger hard drive.
I believe that it is a lot more complex than swapping drives in a G5 iMac.
I think my friend is likely to feel more "comfortable" with an already completed unit than one I put together for her. I don't feel that she would get that a put together external drive could be as "flawless" as one that was purchased complete.
I know you would have to be right about the iMac's being more complex than working on the G5, which was a snap, both literally and figuratively.
GeneL
Why not do the same thing for your fried? Buy a nice enclosure and look for a good deal on an drive to put into the enclosure?
I think you will get a better warranty on the hard drive that way than you will if you buy an already-assembled external drive.
I've never worked on a newer iMac, so I don't have any idea how easy or difficult it is to install a larger hard drive.
I believe that it is a lot more complex than swapping drives in a G5 iMac.
I think my friend is likely to feel more "comfortable" with an already completed unit than one I put together for her. I don't feel that she would get that a put together external drive could be as "flawless" as one that was purchased complete.
I know you would have to be right about the iMac's being more complex than working on the G5, which was a snap, both literally and figuratively.
GeneL