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Nice lightweight IDE Hard Drive Enclosure
Having recently upgraded two dell C series laptops, I was left with two vintage 20 Gb IDE hard drives dating from 2003. I decided to reuse them as storage drives and so purchased two IDE Hard Drive Case Enclosure Caddies from eBay seller LUPO-STORE.
The caddies appear to be made from a ABS lightweight plastic and the two half’s clip together once the drive is installed, as opposed to most designs that use tiny screws that are difficult to find again if accidentally dropped. The finished assembly is quite light to carry around has a nice appearance to it.
The only problem encountered was the vintage drives themselves. The power requirements for the drives are 0.7amp and 1.0amp respectively. The enclosures are supplied with a single connector USB power lead which when plugged into a USB 3.0 outlet at 0.9 amp output was not enough to power the drives adequately. I had to use a USB splitter lead to power the drives from two USB 3.0 outlets to achieve enough power input, so an additional splitter power lead is necessary to use with the enclosures when using drives of this era.
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Does the job just fine and got all my stuff saved that I thought I was going to lose.
It does the job that it is intended for but at a much better price than others on ebay. My old hard drive was bit of a tight sqeeze to get into the enclosure but I'm happy enough.
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Simple to add your HDD and use.
Set-up and use was just about as simple as it gets.
The unit is powered from whatever it is connected to via the supplied USB cable.
Do bear in mind that your device must be capable of supplying sufficient current to drive whatever you choose to install in the case.
Typical example: Toshiba IDE 60GB HDD requires 0.7Amps.
Connected to a windows PC the required drivers auto-installed in seconds and I was able to make use of 60Gb storage media from an obsolete PC.
In my particular case I could have purchased 60Gb of micro USB storage for not much more than this unit cost.
However, it's great if you hate waste. Fingers crossed, the circuit in the case works reliably for a reasonable number of years.
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Use that old HDD as extra external storage.
I salvaged a 2.5" HDD from a laptop that I was selling. I removed the HDD for security of my data. The drive was still working so I looked around for a caddy to put it in, to create an external portable drive.
This is just the job. The USB allows it to run off my current laptop or PC without the need for a power cable. The caddy is just large enough for the HDD, so in total, only a little larger than my mobile phone. It is easy to install the HDD in the caddy, and just plug in the USB and you are good to go.
At a cost of just £5.99 (postage free) and very prompt delivery by Royal Mail with your daily post, what is not to like.Read full review...
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Great solution and value for my IDE needs
This item is great for backing up old IDE laptop hard drives and for using as a permanent external hard drive. Simple to use, good price and quality.
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great priced disk caddy
I got an old laptop and wanted to keep the hard drive and re-use it as an external drive so looked at and compared prices and specs of other enclosures but found this caddy to be the best for the job. installing took 10 mins and plugged in to my PC and it worked brilliantly with no issues. Really pleased with my purchase !!Read full review...
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Useful for old IDE drives
Works perfectly with two IDE drives I have. Installation is very quick and doesn't require any tools.
My old negative is that my old HDD is too tall (~15mm) to fit in the case, but that's fine -- it works with the lid off. It's a drive from 1995 that I wanted to image before it died. Standard drives from laptops will fit fine.Read full review...
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Quality Hard drive case.
Excellent case for an IDE 2.5 Hard drive, Case is made from quality material and the hard drive sits in perfectly and the case is very light in weight.
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Did what we wanted and more!
Does it job brilliantly! In fact, it has one great advantage: the whole thing is very easy to disassemble completely. In our case, the old drive we needed to read had two bolts completely stuck in it, so any other box would not allow us to get the job done. With this one we just put out the logic board and did the job outside of the box. Also, because of that you can set up the drive not only as external box but use it otherwise or with a different case. You won't find that in the description!
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Portable and Lightweight. Perfect
Super Easy to use - Slide off lid, Slide in you IDE multi pin drive, refit plug in and connect to your PC or laptop and you can access your old files. Perfect !!
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Put and older drive back to useful work!
Breathes new life into an old drive. this is for OLD IDE format drives. Not SATA
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