Our desktop finally died tonight and I was going to replace it, but my wife prefers using the laptop and we are broke. In order to get the data off the drive, I was going to pick up an external enclosure off newegg. I was wondering if it would be possible to buy two and use one for the hard drive and the other for a dvdrw drive? The laptop has 2 USB ports and we have a PCMCIA firewire card. I was thinking of connecting both enclosures via firewire to the card, but don't know if the transfer rate from the external hard drive would be fast enough to keep up with the external dvd burner - especially since the firewire is going through the PCMCIA card. I could also connect one or both enclosures via USB, but this would be slower I think?
Topic: External Drive Enclosure Question (Read 1985 times)