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I am in looking into building a portable harddrive caddie instead of buying an off the shelf product and had some general questions:
1) What are the best external cases to buy? Am only intending to need an usb connection and would prefer to have an option of both the drive working with and without external power supply. Needs to be fairly tough as well to survive a few knocks in transport and be cool running.
2) What harddrives work just drawing power from the usb port only? Not concerned if its 2.5" or 3.5" caddies will go with whatever is the cheapest preferred solution.
3) Again suggestions on the make of harddrive and if 2.5" is preferable to 3.5"?
4) Once I have ordered the recommended caddie and harddrive is it best to format as NTFS or FAT32? If preference is FAT32 what is the free and best way of formatting above 32Gb in FAT32 using WinXP Pro?
5) My budget is £80
Much appreciation for anyone who can help or advise or suggest a sticky guide. Thanks in advance. D.
1) What are the best external cases to buy? Am only intending to need an usb connection and would prefer to have an option of both the drive working with and without external power supply. Needs to be fairly tough as well to survive a few knocks in transport and be cool running.
2) What harddrives work just drawing power from the usb port only? Not concerned if its 2.5" or 3.5" caddies will go with whatever is the cheapest preferred solution.
3) Again suggestions on the make of harddrive and if 2.5" is preferable to 3.5"?
4) Once I have ordered the recommended caddie and harddrive is it best to format as NTFS or FAT32? If preference is FAT32 what is the free and best way of formatting above 32Gb in FAT32 using WinXP Pro?
5) My budget is £80
Much appreciation for anyone who can help or advise or suggest a sticky guide. Thanks in advance. D.