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Ian Roberts
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 Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:33 pm Post subject: External Case for IDE Drive - recommendations? |
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Hi
I'm looking for an external enclosure for a standard IDE hard drive
that allows a quick an easy way of inserting and removing the drive.
Ive just found a neat piece of kit which allows any standard IDE drive
(HDD, CD, DVD) to be used externally via a USB port. So the only
thing I'm after now is a neat way to protect the drive while in use.
I'm now able to make use of some of my old drives which have just been
sitting in a cupboard!!!
Thanks for any info.
Ian |
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Craig
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| Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 6:32 pm Post subject: Re: External Case for IDE Drive - recommendations? |
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"Ian Roberts" <Ian_Roberts@SPAMOFFBTinternet.com> wrote in message
news:bfipbu$h6$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com...
| Quote: | Hi
I'm looking for an external enclosure for a standard IDE hard drive
that allows a quick an easy way of inserting and removing the drive.
Ive just found a neat piece of kit which allows any standard IDE drive
(HDD, CD, DVD) to be used externally via a USB port. So the only
thing I'm after now is a neat way to protect the drive while in use.
I'm now able to make use of some of my old drives which have just been
sitting in a cupboard!!!
Thanks for any info.
Ian
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Here is one website http://www.firewiremax.com/hardriven.html
If you want to find more do a google search.
Craig
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David Chien
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 10:45 pm Post subject: Re: External Case for IDE Drive - recommendations? |
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ME-320 5.25"/3.5" enclosure www.newegg.com
Works fine, combo model give you both USB 2.0 & IEEE 1394 connections,
plug & play, cools sufficiently to keep 7200rpm HDs cool, works fine.
(Avoid ME-720 model - this 3.5" only case is too small and crowded
inside, thus causing HD temps to go well over 50 degrees C and killing HDs.) |
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Jonathan
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2003 3:29 pm Post subject: Re: External Case for IDE Drive - recommendations? |
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Be brave! Make one yourself!!
Seriously, any old external HD box should do, just replace the scsi
(or whatever) connectors with IDE ones. It may look like an Acorn BBC
B but it should work. You'll probably need to get an IDE connector to
make the external port on your PC, available from all good broken IDE
hard drives, or you could just take the cable direct from the
motherboard out to the hard drive itself (through the PC case and the
hard drive case).
The way I would probably do it would be to get hold of an IDE port
(like off a hard drive) and somehow connect this to an IDE cable,
which goes to one of the IDE channels. Do the same with the external
case, then connect them up with a 1 - to - 1 IDE cable and voila! I
can now disconnect the external device without opening either the PC
or the external case.
Probably need some clips to keep the cables secured at either end, not
sure about that... |
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chunkyluv
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2003 6:21 pm Post subject: Re: External Case for IDE Drive - recommendations? |
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On 25 Jul 2003 03:29:32 -0700, jonny_morrisuk@yahoo.co.uk (Jonathan)
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| Quote: | Be brave! Make one yourself!!
Seriously, any old external HD box should do, just replace the scsi
(or whatever) connectors with IDE ones.
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umm... Isn't he looking for a USB box? What you're describing sounds
like a cold-swap device to me (am I wrong?)
I remember reading quite some time ago that the Oxford 911 chipset was
the one to look for in external ide cases. But I think this is an
older shipset and for Firewire. Is there a chipset for an IDE<->USB
box that is best? Or is it just thermal considerations that set the
competing models apart? |
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