If you’re like us, you’ve got hundreds of extra hard drives kicking around. Maybe they got bumped out of your PC during upgrades. Maybe they’re all that remains of computers you scrapped long ago. Maybe you went overboard buying 250-gig WD Caviar drives on woot. It barely matters, ‘cause if you haven’t the space in your tower, you can’t use them, right? Hard drives can’t survive outside the shelter of your PC’s housing, right?

Wrong. Wrong, wrong, a thousand times over. Man, are you wrong! You don’t even get a lousy copy of our home game.

Lay your eyes on this USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394 FireWire aluminum external hard drive enclosure and be amazed! Scratch that—“amazed” is overselling it. But lay your eyes on it and go “hunh! Neat.”

See, what this thing here is, is it’s an exoskeletal spacesuit for hard drives. Wearing this special suit, your regular old spare internal hard drive becomes a fully-functioning portable drive. No need to crack open your computer’s case; just liase with the enclosure’s FireWire and USB 2.0 interfaces. How easy is that? Here’s how easy: plug, play. Alaska Republican Senator Ted “The Internet Is A Series of Tubes” Stevens could use this thing.

You can see from the photo above that its attractive aluminum shell is unsullied by any garish, unsightly, recognizeable name brand. What you can’t see is that it’s also lightweight for easy portability, helps with cooling, and might get you two or three cents at the recycling facility.

This case works with the 120gb and 250gb hard drives we’ve sold here before. Did you buy one? (Three?) Well, then, you’re set to plunder your pals’ mp3 collections! Tote big projects from one work site to another! But for your sake, never tote big work projects home. You need downtime to decompress, man.

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