Hard Drives

[ViperASR]

Ok, so I want to take my 250gig harddrive out of my computer and make it an external drive. I was wondering if anyone has any experience doing this or has a product to recommend. I dont want to spend a ton of money on doing this, but I dont want a POS.

Any help/advice?

Thanks in advance :D

[TopGearNL]

Ive been talking about this with Jabba recently and there is a simple trick for it. I can't remember what it was exactly so Ill ask Jabba for an answer.

[Erez]

to connect to the laptop?
:arrow: http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_1607.html
just so you'll check the products out there..

http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=92&name=Computer-Hardware-nbsp%253b-gt%253b-nbsp%253bComputer-Cases-External-Enclosures-nbsp%253b-gt%253b-nbsp%253bExternal-Enclosures

[Jabba]

Ok, so I want to take my 250gig harddrive out of my computer and make it an external drive. I was wondering if anyone has any experience doing this or has a product to recommend. I dont want to spend a ton of money on doing this, but I dont want a POS.

Any help/advice?

Thanks in advance :D

Very cheap and very easy to do, just an adaptor that turns an IDE/SATA interface into a USB2 one, I have tried it with at least 20 different drives and all have worked perfectly.

http://www.dabs4work.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=3V64

[TopGearNL]

^^ There's your answer ViperASR :wink:

[Erez]

:arrow: this one seems nice as well
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121021

[dutchmasterflex]

External drive enclosures are very cheap, take your pick, they all pretty much do the same unless you want something with a button for automated back up.

[Erez]

I'd go for one with a fan.. :good: (and eSATA)

[ViperASR]

Ok, so I want to take my 250gig harddrive out of my computer and make it an external drive. I was wondering if anyone has any experience doing this or has a product to recommend. I dont want to spend a ton of money on doing this, but I dont want a POS.

Any help/advice?

Thanks in advance :D

Very cheap and very easy to do, just an adaptor that turns an IDE/SATA interface into a USB2 one, I have tried it with at least 20 different drives and all have worked perfectly.

http://www.dabs4work.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=3V64

Thanks Jabba :good: I need a place to store all my vids as my laptop drive is "only" a 120gigs.

[spanky]

Yeah those external enclosures are cheap nowadays and if you want to get one with a fan it will keep it a bit cooler.....

[ViperASR]

Thanks guys for all the imput :good:


Other good suggestions: Conceptronic and Icy-Box for the empty casings. And if you want to buy an external disk, Western Digital MyBook.

I dont want to buy one, I want to use it to hold all my TG vids and such, but it will also make it easier to transfer all my files from my current computer to my new laptop.