Alright, here's the story.
I got a laptop as a sort of birthday present this summer, it's Toshiba Satellite A100-049.
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Until a month ago I haven't had any problems with memory and so on, but the harddrive which is pretty small considering it's a laptop, is becoming full and now I'm kind of looking for external harddrives and options to that.
Instead of buying a whole new external harddrive of maybe 500GB, I figured I'd use the harddrive of my family's first computer, which still works but is not used.
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As far as I know, it should have about 80GB on it and that'll last for a while. So I went to buy a monitor cable so I could connect them.
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It didn't work and I spoke to someone I know who's good with computers and he said I needed an "External harddrive enclosure". I didn't have a clue what that was but searched google and found some examples (it showed out I recognized the looks once I'd seen a pic of one), however I have no idea what one to choose and now I'm stuck picking out one.
That's probably why I started this topic, I need you people who have external harddrives and enclosures to help me pick one.
Here's one that got some nice comments and is in my opinion really nice-looking for about £22. There should be a lot of cheaper and more simple ones available though.
![[Image: a1d0bb43587f93af112b28d93fb48206_sexyenclosure.JPG]](http://files.uploadffs.com/a1d0bb43587f93af112b28d93fb48206_sexyenclosure.JPG)
Feedback to this is very welcome, especially if you have any advice to give me.
Thanks in advance,
Felle.
I got a laptop as a sort of birthday present this summer, it's Toshiba Satellite A100-049.
Until a month ago I haven't had any problems with memory and so on, but the harddrive which is pretty small considering it's a laptop, is becoming full and now I'm kind of looking for external harddrives and options to that.
Quote:C:\ 55.6GB(7GB free)
E:\ 54.6GB(36GB free) <<-- however being taken up very soon.
Instead of buying a whole new external harddrive of maybe 500GB, I figured I'd use the harddrive of my family's first computer, which still works but is not used.
As far as I know, it should have about 80GB on it and that'll last for a while. So I went to buy a monitor cable so I could connect them.
It didn't work and I spoke to someone I know who's good with computers and he said I needed an "External harddrive enclosure". I didn't have a clue what that was but searched google and found some examples (it showed out I recognized the looks once I'd seen a pic of one), however I have no idea what one to choose and now I'm stuck picking out one.
That's probably why I started this topic, I need you people who have external harddrives and enclosures to help me pick one.
Here's one that got some nice comments and is in my opinion really nice-looking for about £22. There should be a lot of cheaper and more simple ones available though.
Feedback to this is very welcome, especially if you have any advice to give me.
Thanks in advance,
Felle.