I see some good sales on Internal HDDs but I really need an external HDD for my Tricaster.

Has anyone used those HDD enclosures to turn Internal HDDs into external?

I do it all the time. In fact, I am on my way to Fry's today to get another 200GB drive.

You can buy external USB 2.0 or Firewire enclosures that hold those cheap drives. I have three connected right now. I capture all my footage to the internal drive, and keep all my current footage on that drive. But everything else goes to the external drives for temporary storage.

Yeah thats whats in the external drives are internal HDD put into an external enclosure. Its just a matter of finding an enclosure you like. www.newegg.com sells them for pretty cheap. Theres obviously other places to look but their prices are cheaper than Frys i know that. :)

I just paid $54 (after rebate and including taxes) for a 200GB 7200rpm Seagate Ultra ATA/100 - at Fry's.

You gotta love it. $0.28/GB !!!

Thanks I saw some cool enclosures with fans on sale at J&R in NYC and 250gig internal drives for $100.00.

That's a lot less than what I would have to pay for Western Digital or Maxtor external drives.