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ViperASR 04-24-2007 11:53 AM

Hard Drives
 
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 04-24-2007 12:19 PM

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 04-24-2007 12:20 PM

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/SubCateg...nal-Enclosures

Jabba 04-24-2007 12:27 PM

Re: Hard Drives
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by 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...QuickLinx=3V64

TopGearNL 04-24-2007 12:30 PM

^^ There's your answer ViperASR :wink:

Erez 04-24-2007 12:41 PM

:arrow: this one seems nice as well
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817121021

dutchmasterflex 04-24-2007 12:44 PM

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 04-24-2007 02:02 PM

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

ViperASR 04-24-2007 02:06 PM

Re: Hard Drives
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Jabba
Quote:

Originally Posted by 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...QuickLinx=3V64

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

spanky 04-25-2007 03:51 AM

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 04-25-2007 12:48 PM

Thanks guys for all the imput :good:


Quote:

Originally Posted by thamar
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.


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