[NCLUG] Good news from the hardware front

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 28, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Goodman,Darrin wrote:
>>
> You can purchase an 8 GB Kingston USB flash drive from Buy.com for  
> $31.95 with free shipping.
> http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=204561465&adid=17070&dcaid=17070
>
> Also, take any old internal hard drive that you might have lying  
> around (IDE or SATA), hook it up to one of these and you've got  
> yourself a semi-portable USB drive:
> http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=2020&cpc=RECOM

Unless you use a laptop type drive you'll have to provide power for  
the drive, as the USB interface will not provide enough power to run a  
3.5" HDD.

If you use a drive that can be bus-powered it will suck down the  
battery pretty quickly if used with a laptop.

beww