WTB: External HDD enclosure for desktop HDD

[gator]

My friend is looking for a cheap external enclosure for her 7200 rpm 160 GB desktop HDD. Used preferred. If anyone here has one to sell, PM me with price.

[Ken Fox]

My friend is looking for an external enclosure for her 7200 rpm 160 GB desktop HDD. Used preferred. If anyone here has one to sell, PM me with price.

These things sell for next to nothing when new. I suggest you go to websites such as pcmicrostore.com , meritline.com , or even Newegg or other similar sites. The deal sites (slickdeals.net, fatwallet.com, techbargains.net, etc. etc. etc.) regularly list these USB 2 boxes for even less with various coupon codes and the like.

That 160gb drive, to be honest, isn't worth squat. You could even buy a USB 2 drive, including the drive and the enclosure, in that size or larger for not much more than $50, plus or minus rebates.

I wouldn't bother looking for a used enclosure; the shipping cost is going to exceed what the box itself is worth.

[schen]

My friend is looking for an external enclosure for her 7200 rpm 160 GB desktop HDD. Used preferred. If anyone here has one to sell, PM me with price.

That 160gb drive, to be honest, isn't worth squat. You could even buy a USB 2 drive, including the drive and the enclosure, in that size or larger for not much more than $50, plus or minus rebates.

I wouldn't bother looking for a used enclosure; the shipping cost is going to exceed what the box itself is worth.

I wouldn't go quite so far is the drive not being worth squat, but I'd say that there is very little market value in it at the moment and that it's probably worth more to her than anything she could get for it. Therefore I suspect that would be why she's looking into an external case for it. And for something like backup or simple external/portable storage, it has some value to her. So, I'd agree with Ken Fox in that it would be worth searching for an inexpensive enclosure (a froogle search will turn up a lot of them), slide that disk in there and have cheap storage for less than $30 all-in. I bought one so that I can use it to test drives and pull data off when I work on people's machines.

[gator]

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