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Looking for a portable Hard Drive that is upgradable-Backups

Sep 14, 2009 6:16PM PDT

I am in the market for an external hard drive that is portable, using a 2.5" hard drive. I want one that is upgradable so that in the future as hard drives get bigger I can simply buy a laptop hard drive and open the case to replace the hard drive. I have heard that the OWC drivers are upgradable but are there others on the market that can be upgraded?
I will be using this to backup Windows Vista and later 7 to and wish to mirror the backup to the hard drive. That way if I have a hard drive failure I can boot up from the backup and once the internal drive is replaced I can copy the data onto the new hard drive. What is a good backup program that I should look at to do this.
Thank you for your help.

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I own one of these.
Sep 14, 2009 8:55PM PDT
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HD docks
Sep 15, 2009 1:36AM PDT

You should look into the "docking station" type for ext. HDs. These allow any bare SATA/eSATA type of HD to be mounted in its dock. The dock is not an "enclosure" so its open literally to accept the required HDs. Here is an example:
http://gizmodo.com/312747/hdd-usb-dock-plugs-bare-sata-drives-like-nes-cartridges

Google or buy from any vendor you like. I suggest you cgeck the specs to be 100% certain it accepts the HDs you plan to use.

tada -----Willy Happy