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<blockquote data-quote="Noels" data-source="post: 684366" data-attributes="member: 49942"><p>ApplePi,</p><p></p><p>It probably will work, but the Passport external hard drive is in a sealed plastic enclosure. I have a 160GB Passport I use with SuperDuper as my external. Looks to me like you would have to destroy the enclosure to get the drive out of it... Not sure that would cause any problems with the drive itself, but I wouldn't think so. Just so you know about that aspect of it...</p><p></p><p>You could buy a bare 2.5" SATA hard drive. I bought this $130 320GB WD Scorpio and exchanged it with my original Mac HDD: <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136197" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136197</a></p><p></p><p>But if you did it that way, you'd have to buy an enclosure for the original Mac drive. But the same if you had to destroy the Passport case, you probably would need to buy an enclosure for that anyhow... Newegg has many Bytecc enclosures for 2.5" SATA drives - some are USB powered like the Passport.</p><p></p><p>BTW, I bought my Torx at Sears for like $3-4...</p><p></p><p>Noel</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Noels, post: 684366, member: 49942"] ApplePi, It probably will work, but the Passport external hard drive is in a sealed plastic enclosure. I have a 160GB Passport I use with SuperDuper as my external. Looks to me like you would have to destroy the enclosure to get the drive out of it... Not sure that would cause any problems with the drive itself, but I wouldn't think so. Just so you know about that aspect of it... You could buy a bare 2.5" SATA hard drive. I bought this $130 320GB WD Scorpio and exchanged it with my original Mac HDD: [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136197"]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136197[/URL] But if you did it that way, you'd have to buy an enclosure for the original Mac drive. But the same if you had to destroy the Passport case, you probably would need to buy an enclosure for that anyhow... Newegg has many Bytecc enclosures for 2.5" SATA drives - some are USB powered like the Passport. BTW, I bought my Torx at Sears for like $3-4... Noel [/QUOTE]
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