I am thinking that Radio Shack has become my new source for inexpensive computer solutions.  I picked up a 3.5″ Gigaware hard drive enclosure for  $19.99 plus tax.  The enclosure gave life to a spare 160GB SATA hard drive I removed from my 17″ iMac last year.

Instead of letting it continue to collect dust, I dropped $20 and have a nice back up drive for my MacBook.    I could have spent more and gotten a enclosure with Firewire or even more that was network capable, but went with a USB version.

I was able to pull off information I had been meaning to do so for the past year.  I formated it and began using it as my Time Machine Back Up drive for the 13″ Macbook.  At the end of the day I suggest a cheap hard drive enclosure to bring an old hard drive back to life.