What kind of USB 2.0 enclosure interface do I need for my 160 GB Int HD

[Cataphract]

I just bought this Internal HD from staples
<a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.staples.com/C
atalog/Browse/Sku.asp?PageType=1&Sku=504516">Internal HD</a>

Now I am shopping around for an USB 2.0 enclosure but I am confused about the interface that they are mentioning for the enclosures, some say compatible with IDE or EIDE HD's and some say "Supports up to UDMA/133 ", the HD that I bought says it has Ultra ATA/133 type interface.

So now do I need to look for interface specifications when selecting an enclosure for the drive, I just want a USB 2.0 box to house the drive and work it like a HD.

Has anyone done this before? Any recommendations as to which enclosure to get for the drive that I just bought.

Please help.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Wow, nice price. Newegg's at 240 for the retail. Of course it's not the cheapest anybody could find, if they wanted to play with coupons and stuff.

All you need is a USB2.0 enclosure that says it supports greater than 137GB drives. UDMA and UltraATA are the same things. UltraATA133 and UDMA133 and ATA133 all are the same thing (the official names are ATA/ATAPI 1 through 6 for up to ATA100, which is UltraDMA mode 5). Technically ATA133 isn't an official standard, only Maxtor uses it, so many controllers or enclosures will only say ATA100. The issue of large hard drives is separate from the ATA speed rating. 48-bit addressing is used to allow very large drives to be used, and Maxtor was one of the first to make it standard and they made it part of their ATA133 specification.

An IDE or EIDE device is a standard ATA drive. Most controllers or enclosures also support some level of UltraATA mode, but more people are familiar with the term IDE or EIDE in reference to hard drives. All the Ultra modes are backward compatible with previous ATA types including PIO mode and DMA mode (UltraDMA is what is used now).