My IDE Disks

[SE14man]

I have a number of IDE hard disks.
I don't want to go buying an external enclosure for everyone of them because it's too expensive.

Is there a tower maybe or some hot swappable device i can plug about 10 IDE's into on my pc to make them powered by USB maybe there's a pc tower that i cna slot them into or something?

Cheers guys.

I am in Australia btw

[edDV]

For a minimalist approach,

I bought several USB2 enclosures until I found this. Just plug it into a bare drive and the other end into the USB2 port and use it.



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156102

Its a quick way to hook up any type of drive.

[SE14man]

Thank you so much!

I am so happy u told me that mate thanks again!

[edDV]

Here it is connected to a 200GB Maxtor PATA.



There is a separate power supply to power the drive. In this configuration the BYTECC device is powered off the USB2 port. Drive speed is identical to my other USB2 enclosures.

[SE14man]

I am definately going to buy one of these.

I never would have thought something like this would exist til today!

Thanks mate!

[redwudz]

I have one of those also. It's handy for testing hard drives without opening up the computer case and plugging them in. It also works with 2.5" laptop drives if you need to format one of those for laptop installation.

[waheed]

I was going to get one of those also, but if you have external SATA connectivity on your PC (as well as the ability to power the hard drive), I decided to go for an IDE to SATA adapter, as SATA offers faster speeds than USB 2.0

I purchased a Abit Serillel2 for connecting any IDE drives to my PC via SATA:

http://www.abit-usa.com/technology/serillel_new.php

Obviously, you still need to power the hard drive in some way.

[Dr_Layne]

www.addonics.com sells mini towers. I use a four slot tower that connects four IDE drives via one USB cable.

Steve

[SE14man]

That also sounds like a good one.

Could i get these products in Australia does ne1 know?

[rallynavvie]

www.addonics.com sells mini towers. I use a four slot tower that connects four IDE drives via one USB cable.

Oooh, that place has some good prices on backplanes for enclosures and tower cases. $130 for a 5-drive backplane with disk trays is very reasonable. Just need to make sure the PSU can supply the juice to those drives should they, and all the others installed in your PC, decide to spin up simultaneously.

[SingSing]

Aviod old and cheap external PATA USB adapter. My last one from Maddog can't burn DVD+R/W, and won't boot a laptop. I bough a new unbrand one, and all is fine.

[rallynavvie]

Stay away from Maddog regardless of the item. My friend has had the worst luck with their products. First a video card of their physically caught fire, then the RMA replacement went after only a few months, and then most recently his new Maddog PSU blew sparks and took his motherboard with it.

[Krispy Kritter]

This will really come in handy, just ordered one myself.

[pfh]

Sweet!

[RabidDog]

be warned tho .. you cant power more than one, at most two, ide drives off a usb lead (in fact, quite often hards will fail to get enuff juice to boot from usb) certainly NOT 10

[edDV]

be warned tho .. you cant power more than one, at most two, ide drives off a usb lead (in fact, quite often hards will fail to get enuff juice to boot from usb) certainly NOT 10

The drives need a separate power supply.