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Title: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures? (IDE)
Post by: Red on January 08, 2009, 02:58:52 pm
Guys,

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.
Title: Re: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures?
Post by: ahofle on January 08, 2009, 03:09:20 pm
Not sure about cheapest, but I usually get that kind of stuff from newegg.com.
Title: Re: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures?
Post by: HaRuMaN on January 08, 2009, 03:16:49 pm
ditto on newegg.

You looking for IDE or SATA?
Title: Re: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures?
Post by: Red on January 08, 2009, 03:38:08 pm
Quote from: HarumaN on January 08, 2009, 03:16:49 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.
Title: Re: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures? (IDE)
Post by: HaRuMaN on January 08, 2009, 03:39:45 pm
not that I know of
Title: Re: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures? (IDE)
Post by: ahofle 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.  :-\
Title: Re: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures? (IDE)
Post by: Red on January 08, 2009, 04:51:38 pm
Quote from: ahofle 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.  :-\

It seems like 5.25" enclosures are very hard to find these days.  :(
Title: Re: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures? (IDE)
Post by: Turnarcades on January 08, 2009, 09:35:57 pm
As always, scour ebay. There isn't much I don't buy these days off there.
Title: Re: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures? (IDE)
Post by: ghettodish on January 08, 2009, 11:06:20 pm
Tiger Direct?:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/search.asp?keywords=5.25+enclosure&searchbtn.x=0&searchbtn.y=0
Title: Re: Cheapest place to buy 5.25" External Enclosures? (IDE)
Post by: paulscade on January 09, 2009, 08:44:13 am
If you need a bunch... you can try this:
http://www.liquidation.com/