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Subject: Re: Suggestions for an external firewire/USB drive
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Paul Sommerhein wrote:

> I am looking for an external firewire/USB drive >= 200 GB to
> go with FreeBSD-4.8.

I bought an external IDE enclosure that connects via firewire. 
It works fine with any IDE drive (CD-RW, HDD, whatever).  They
run about 50-60$ last time I checked, and add another 175$+ for
a 200GB+ HDD.  I haven't had any problems with this setup.

ja~
Tony