Comments on: Are there any external hard drives with a fuse or surge protection? http://www.lightningprotectionspecialists.com/surge-protection/are-there-any-external-hard-drives-with-a-fuse-or-surge-protection Helping You Protect What Is Most Important Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:38:59 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: CannedStoat http://www.lightningprotectionspecialists.com/surge-protection/are-there-any-external-hard-drives-with-a-fuse-or-surge-protection/comment-page-1#comment-292 CannedStoat Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:38:59 +0000 http://www.lightningprotectionspecialists.com/surge-protection/are-there-any-external-hard-drives-with-a-fuse-or-surge-protection#comment-292 A USB powered drive would solve the problem, and you wouldn't have to worry about power cords. Also, you can get an external drive enclosure that has the transformer built in, which means that you use the regular computer type power cord rather than one with a AC/DC converter brick in it. For example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817113012 This is a drive enclosure, not an external drive, but all you would have to do is put in your own hard drive (perhaps even the one inside your old external case still works?) and it becomes an external drive.<br><b>References : </b><br> A USB powered drive would solve the problem, and you wouldn’t have to worry about power cords.

Also, you can get an external drive enclosure that has the transformer built in, which means that you use the regular computer type power cord rather than one with a AC/DC converter brick in it. For example:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817113012

This is a drive enclosure, not an external drive, but all you would have to do is put in your own hard drive (perhaps even the one inside your old external case still works?) and it becomes an external drive.
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]]> By: johnnyloot http://www.lightningprotectionspecialists.com/surge-protection/are-there-any-external-hard-drives-with-a-fuse-or-surge-protection/comment-page-1#comment-291 johnnyloot Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:04:59 +0000 http://www.lightningprotectionspecialists.com/surge-protection/are-there-any-external-hard-drives-with-a-fuse-or-surge-protection#comment-291 I would just get a regular hard drive and then plug it into a surge protected power strip. It will make your life a lot easier and will be much cheaper. I am sure you can find a surge protected enclosure, but it will probably cost a lot of money. A surge strip should do just just as well and will be much easier to find (see link for examples).<br><b>References : </b><br>http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=surge+protector&um=1&ie=UTF-8 I would just get a regular hard drive and then plug it into a surge protected power strip. It will make your life a lot easier and will be much cheaper. I am sure you can find a surge protected enclosure, but it will probably cost a lot of money. A surge strip should do just just as well and will be much easier to find (see link for examples).
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http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=surge+protector&um=1&ie=UTF-8

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