ide hd to external?
im looking to make use of my 20gb ide hdd’s laying around, so my boss has his into external with an external enclosure he bought from newegg, and i decided i would do this too, but i am not sure if i would actually need the whole thing, is it possible to just buy a few wires to do it, ill have it in my computer more than out of it so i would just like to buy a power and ide to say usb or firewire cable so i dont have to unscrew the case to get my hdd out everytime.
or on the other hand do you think it is at risk or static…etc
You need to fit it in a proper enclosure which adapts the ide to usb and back, and uses external power in order to prevent disturbing the machine when connecting. The internal connections are also not designed for continual connection and disconnection.
August 30th, 2009 at 8:40 am
I bought this for the same thing, works great.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I0VIYE/002-7554002-5385607
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August 30th, 2009 at 9:23 am
You need to fit it in a proper enclosure which adapts the ide to usb and back, and uses external power in order to prevent disturbing the machine when connecting. The internal connections are also not designed for continual connection and disconnection.
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August 30th, 2009 at 9:49 am
i understand what your boss did with his hard drive, but dont understand what your trying to do. He turned his Internal HD into an External HD. That’s all he did. If he wanted to access the info on the hard drive, he could just plug up the hard drive through the USB wire. You dont have get the hard drive in and out to use it.
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http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/201/91/
August 30th, 2009 at 9:55 am
Gotcha. I think you’re going to do a bare-bone external drive conversion, am I correct? Ok, you would have to have this one:
BYTECC BT-200 USB2.0 to IDE Cable With Power Adapter
you can get one from newegg.com or from radioshack.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812156101
static electricity risk, plausible, but not much likely.
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