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From: pld@au-bon-pain.jj.lcs.mit.edu (Peter L. DeWolf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: How do you convert an internal HD to an external?
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Date: 19 Jul 90 18:28:00 GMT
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I own a perfectly good Mac II internal hard disk.  I am considering
buying a newer, bigger, faster, better hard disk.  I seem to have four
options. 

  1) Buy a new external drive.
  2) Install the new internal drive in the Mac II case and get rid of
     the old one.
  3) Install the new internal drive in the Mac II case and convert the
     old one into an external drive.
  4) Figure out how to install two internal drives in the Mac II case.

Option 1 is easy.

I'd like to reject option 2; you can never have too much disk storage.

Option 3 should be possible, but I don't know what is involved. What
is provided in an external drive that is missing from an internal
drive?  A case, cables, a power supply, etc.  Does anybody supply a
"kit" or such that would make this easy?

Is option 4 possible?  With the right mounting brackets, you could
probably physically mount certain combinations of drives.  How would
you electrically connect both of them to power and the SCSI bus?
Again, are there any "kits" or such available to do this?

Thanks much.

 Peter L. DeWolf
 Motorola Cambridge Research Center
 pld@mcrc.mot.com -or- pld@abp.lcs.mit.edu