2.5″ is enough!

I have been pondering for a while as to a storage solution for when I am out and about, I have tried various key fob type USB sticks, and to be honest the limits on there size is a big issue for me, I know there are massive amounts of external hard disks out there and indeed I had a 60Gb external drive for a long time in a belkin enclosure which worked ok, but being a ig 3.5″ IDE hard disk it had to have mains power to spin it up.  So I had a look round and I knew I did not want to break the bank so turned to one my companies supplies to see what they could offer.  They turned up the Trancend 2.5″ enclosure for around £10 this is an impressive little aluminium box with a single blue LED at one end, all you do is select the disk you want and stick it in.  I my case I bought a Maxtor DiamondMax 21 160GB SATA-II 3.5″ Hard Drive 7200RPM 2MB Buffer example.  Two screws to flipopen the enclosure slide in the drive, bolt the end back on and presto a 160Gb External Drive which is powered from the USB socket of your laptop.  By chance I had an old Playstation Portable Leather case kicking around into which slides comfortably the Trancend box and the USB cable, so all in all a superneat job and it cost less than £50!  What a bargin.