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Tip 1 - How to build your own external hard drive - CNET

Published: 9 years, 1 month(s) ago | Submitted by Athanasius Fernandopulle | permalink

Building your own external hard drive is easy to do, can save you some cash, and offers more custom options than buying prebuilt ones.

For further reading: http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-build-your-own-external-hard-drive/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - How to Build an External Hard Drive

Published: 9 years, 1 month(s) ago | Submitted by Nibs | permalink

One of the simplest ways to give your laptop more hard drive space, or backup all of your important files without burning them to CD or DVD, is to build your own external hard drive. This hard drive would be able to connect to any computer...
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For further reading: http://www.wikihow.com/Build-an-External-Hard-Drive ^[2]

Tip 3 - Assemble an External Hard Drive

Published: 9 years, 1 month(s) ago | Submitted by Alexandre de Medeiros Reina | permalink

This tutorial will teach you how to assemble a basic, functioning external hard drive, using an external hard drive case and an internal hard drive. ...

For further reading: http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-an-External-Hard-Drive/ ^[3]

Tip 4 - It's cheap and easy to make your own portable hard drive from an old PC drive

Published: 9 years, 1 month(s) ago | Submitted by Dana Dotoli | permalink

An external enclosure is all you need to give your old storage a new lease on life.

For further reading: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2693213/its-cheap-and-easy-to-make-your-own-portable-hard-drive-from-an-old-pc-drive.html ^[4]

Tip 5 - What You Need to Build Your Own External Hard Drive

Published: 9 years, 1 month(s) ago | Submitted by www Fox Nixcom Grantlinks | permalink

Building an external hard drive is an easy project that anyone can undertake. All you need is an external enclosure, a hard drive, and about 10 minutes of your time.

For further reading: http://macs.about.com/od/diyguidesprojects/ss/externalhdcase.htm ^[5]

Tip 6 - Buy or Build External Hard Drive?

Published: 9 years, 1 month(s) ago | Submitted by Herb Edwards | permalink

What do you folks think? Should I buy an external hard drive or build one with an external enclosure? I'm looking for reliability and a decent read/write rate. Thank you, Rod

For further reading: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1654147/buy-build-external-hard-drive.html ^[6]