Juan Buhler mused: > > > > > Interesting little device. Fast and relatively cheap. I understand > > you can also buy the "box" (80$) and fit an internal 2.5" drive > > (do-it-yourself). Is there a real saving doing so? > > I didn't think so. I paid ~$250 for the box with a 80MB drive. From > what I see at buy.com, an 80GB 2'5" drive is about $140. That's about > $30 savings, and I still have to install it. My time costs more than > that.
That rather depends on how comfortable you are with hardware. When I installed a disk drive in an external USB/FireWire enclosure it took me under ten minutes. For a $30 saving that works out to around $200/hour, in after-tax dollars. I *wish* my time were worth more than that :-)
