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I was planning to get an external harddrive for my laptop, and I was thinking that I should get an external enclosure with a harddrive instead so I don't have to worry about the external hd malfunctioning and buying a new one; so with the enclosure, I can just easily change the HD or whatever.
So I searched Newegg and decided on this for the enclosure and this for the hd.
Will these two work together?
As I was searching for hd's, I saw that there were two options for IDE (ata100 and ata133). The internal interface for the enclosure is IDE but it wasn't specific, so I wasn't sure if the enclosure accepts both interfaces.
Does this mean that the enclosure accepts both? In the end I'll probably go with ata100 since the Seagate I want is ata100 but I just want to know for future reference.
So I searched Newegg and decided on this for the enclosure and this for the hd.
Will these two work together?
As I was searching for hd's, I saw that there were two options for IDE (ata100 and ata133). The internal interface for the enclosure is IDE but it wasn't specific, so I wasn't sure if the enclosure accepts both interfaces.
Does this mean that the enclosure accepts both? In the end I'll probably go with ata100 since the Seagate I want is ata100 but I just want to know for future reference.