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Author Topic: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures? (IDE)  (Read 1085 times)

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Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures? (IDE)
« on: January 08, 2009, 02:58:52 pm »
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I need to buy a bunch of cheap 5.25" External Enclosures (IDE) for some drives at work and was wondering if you knew of any places that sold them at a good price? 

Thanks.
« Last Edit: January 08, 2009, 03:38:56 pm by Red »

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Re: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures?
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2009, 03:09:20 pm »
Not sure about cheapest, but I usually get that kind of stuff from newegg.com.

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Re: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures?
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2009, 03:16:49 pm »
ditto on newegg.

You looking for IDE or SATA?

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Re: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures?
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2009, 03:38:08 pm »
ditto on newegg.

You looking for IDE or SATA?

IDE.

Does Newegg offer volume discounts for large purchase orders?  I didn't see anything about it on their site.

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Re: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures? (IDE)
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2009, 03:39:45 pm »
not that I know of

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Re: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures? (IDE)
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2009, 04:25:00 pm »
Too bad you can't use 3.5":
http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=103&cp_id=10305
They also offer volume discounts.  No 5.25" though.  :-\

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Re: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures? (IDE)
« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2009, 04:51:38 pm »
Too bad you can't use 3.5":
http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=103&cp_id=10305
They also offer volume discounts.  No 5.25" though.  :-\

It seems like 5.25" enclosures are very hard to find these days.  :(

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Re: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures? (IDE)
« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2009, 09:35:57 pm »
As always, scour ebay. There isn't much I don't buy these days off there.

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Re: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures? (IDE)
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2009, 08:44:13 am »
If you need a bunch... you can try this:
http://www.liquidation.com/
... Why is it that you always find it in the last place that you look? ...