External Caddy

[bodhi]

Hey,

Following on from another thread I had on here, my mate misled me, it's actually a desktop he has where the windows installation has crashed. He wants the data from the drive, and he also wants to buy an external hard drive for backing up data from his brand new laptop.

I was thinking (inspiration from another thread!!) that I could solve two problems with one stone (as it were). Would I be able to chuck his hard drive into a IDE caddy, use my laptop to retrieve his old data, then format the hard drive and he's then got an external hard drive for backing up his files?

If this is correct, anyone know of any good caddys? A lot of them seem to be for SATA drives, but as his computer is older i'm guessing it'll just be an IDE drive he has??

Cheers.

Old Bodhi

 

[Abarbarian]

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Comp...'+USB+IDE+External+Enclosure+?productId=23393

That is the sort of thing you are after. I know E-buyer do cheaper ones.Make sure you get one with USB 2 as some only do the slower USB 1.
If your friend has SATA connections on his mobo you would be better of with E-SATA as it is much quicker for file transfers though the laptop may not have these connectors. For the pc an add in PCI E-Sata card and cable should only be £2 each I just got some of E-Bay and they work fine.

 

[floppybootstomp]

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Comp...'+USB+IDE+External+Enclosure+?productId=23393

That is the sort of thing you are after. I know E-buyer do cheaper ones.Make sure you get one with USB 2 as some only do the slower USB 1.
If your friend has SATA connections on his mobo you would be better of with E-SATA as it is much quicker for file transfers though the laptop may not have these connectors. For the pc an add in PCI E-Sata card and cable should only be £2 each I just got some of E-Bay and they work fine.

bodhi: Yes, good idea.

I have one of the caddies Abarb linked to, they're good, I have a 1Tb drive in it

That's a good price from Aria, they're £32.00 in PC World.

 

[bodhi]

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152096

Is that not the same as the one you posted but with more features? Maybe not, just wanted to check before I buy one. My mate has a 200Gb hard drive that I want to fit into an external caddy so he can use it as an external hard drive for his laptop.

Thanks.

Bodhi

 

[Abarbarian]

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/125132

I got the silver SATA one of these. Stays pretty darn cool to say it does not haave a fan in it and I have been leaving it on quite a lot at the moment.

That Akasa looks a good price as you get extra usb and card reader stuff.

 

[bodhi]

Cheers dude, just wondered if it was too good to be true.