Actually, the enclosure is free (today only, though), but shipping will cost you six bucks. It's a perfect way to turn an upgraded laptop hard drive into a portable USB drive. Rick Broida is the ...

I've got 4 IDE drives that I want to put into an external enclosure. They have data on them, so it needs to support JBOD. USB2 or firewire, small and quiet (well, that's what I'd like...).<BR><BR>This ...

Click to viewSo you finally replaced that overstuffed 80GB hard drive with a half-terabyte data warehouse. The question is, what do you do with the old drive? Stick it on a shelf? Toss it in the trash ...

Using an external hard drive is a great way to back up what’s most important to you while retaining full access to your data. They're a good way to augment your existinginternal drive storage, and ...

Are you thinking of upgrading that smaller hard drive to a larger one? Maybe you own a laptop and can’t add a hard drive, or maybe you have already added as many hard drives as you want to add to your ...

The trouble with conventional hard drive enclosures is that if you just want to hook up a particular drive to quickly grab some files off of it, you have to go through the hassle of unscrewing the ...

If you need a lot of storage in about as small an enclosure as you can get, the TerraMaster D8 Hybrid fuses hard drive and SSD storage — but with a crucial speed limitation. It's been a quiet ...

Earlier this year, I wrote several guides to boost the speeds of older Macs by swapping their internal hard drives for super-fast solid state drives (SSDs). As readers have confirmed, their older ...

MacFixIt reader Sherman Heinig recently identified an issue where using an old enclosure for a large hard drive can result in some of the drive's capacity not been seen. Sherman writes: "I had a ...