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Posted: **Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:11 pm**

I'm looking for a USB or Firewire enclosure for my 8gb and 25gb Travelstars (I believe they're both 17mm); do they exist?

Posted: **Fri Aug 19, 2005 2:53 am**

sure, check ebay, there's heaps of them

Posted: **Fri Aug 19, 2005 3:00 am**

I would suspect that if these drives have the normal 2.5" hard disk drive connections, they would fit into a USB enclosure designed for laptop drives. I have an enclosure from Safecom that fits my Travelstar hard disk drives perfectly. See http://safecom.cn/code/sub/category.asp?subcatid=12 for more details. I'm in the UK and got my enclosure from http://www.qtds.co.uk

Posted: **Fri Aug 19, 2005 3:37 pm**

You can also try these enclosures. Bytecc seems to have the best controllers. I have tried 2-3 other enclosures, and these are the best as far as connectivity (Windows, GHOST and ACRONIS TI).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817145329

Storage_man

Posted: **Fri Aug 19, 2005 7:26 pm**

Thanks for the responses. The Bytecc only takes 9.5mm drives and I need the 17mm form factor. The safe com website doesn't have the specs saying if it takes the 17mm drives.

Posted: **Sat Aug 20, 2005 3:10 am**

I think 17mm is 3.5" harddrive, 9.5mm is 2.5"

Posted: **Sat Aug 20, 2005 12:25 pm**

The older travelstars are 17mm 2.5". I have two of them. 3.5" won't quite fit into my 770ED

Posted: **Sat Aug 20, 2005 5:11 pm**

JDW715 wrote:The older travelstars are 17mm 2.5". I have two of them. 3.5" won't quite fit into my 770ED

Hm, that would be hard to find box

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17mm Hard Drive Enclosure (USB or firewire)?

17mm Hard Drive Enclosure (USB or firewire)?