{"id":8567,"date":"2005-07-08T15:35:55","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T15:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8567"},"modified":"2005-07-08T15:35:55","modified_gmt":"2005-07-08T15:35:55","slug":"instant-diy-external-hds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8567","title":{"rendered":"Instant DIY External HDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/cooldrives.jpg\"> I&#8217;ve been thinking about buying an external FireWire drive for my G5 iMac. I&#8217;ve been researching the build-your-own type with an enclosure kit and a drive. <\/p>\n<p> Turns out there are tons of enclosure kits available, some as cheap as US$30-40. With HDs being so cheap these days (TigerDirect just had 160GB drives on sale for $50 with free shipping), this is a great way to go. CoolDrives (who sells the enclosure seen here for $39) sells an enclosure (Firewire\/USB2.0) plus a 200GB HD for $119. Just slap the drive in the case, plug it in, and you&#8217;re good to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about buying an external FireWire drive for my G5 iMac. I&#8217;ve been researching the build-your-own type with an enclosure kit and a drive. Turns out there are tons of enclosure kits available, some as cheap as US$30-40. With HDs being so cheap these days (TigerDirect just had 160GB drives on sale for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8567\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Instant DIY External HDs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}