Well it's more of a desktop connection unit

I saw one the other day whilst browsing. It's like an all in one caddy for various hdd drives i.e. laptop and desktop drives. But it aint a fancy caddy it's more for testing/acsessing drives for bench work

Has anyone seen one or know where i can get one

cheers in advance

This is what i'm after anyone seen a better one they can recommend Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK

I doubt many people make them it will be a SATA to USB bridge chip with an IDE to SATA bridge in it to allow the connection of the IDE drive.

I'm dubious about what benifit you would actually get from that as it will be very slow.

I assume they are using USB to supply power and the 3.5" IDE disks will need a suitable power lead. Also some drives can use up to 25w at spin up and there is no way USB can deliver that.

You then have the issue that faster spin drives will overheat as there is no forced cooling there so you would need some fan sat near it.

All in all seems like a very poor idea and literally just to be used for getting data off a drive in an emergency.

just to be used for getting data off a drive in an emergency.

Thats exactly what i want it for, saves fannying around with bunging drives in towers and whatnot

Nice one for the input

This is what i'm after anyone seen a better one they can recommend Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK

Ive got something very similar to that... got it from maplins.. tiz quite handy

Got a linky Col

Got a linky Col

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Its slightly different from the scan one.. its more expensive (altho mine was cheaper coz bro works for them.. staff discount is MENTAL.. most stuff is less than half price!)

the maplins one also comes with all cables req and an external psu rather than being powered by another usb port.

Cheers Col i think i'll order one of those