My latest toy

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 2:47 pm

Will come in handy around the house and such, mostly when I need to transfer stuff to customer's PC that are unfortunate dialup users and don't own a nic, or when the nic is not working.

It's just the enclosure and I had a 60 gig drive so I put it in. Was a tight fit though... but what's nice is that I can probably hook up anything I want, like a cd-rom drive or something. Later on I want to make a battery pack for it so I don't have to haul the whole power cord with me when I bring it somewhere. A UPS battery would do well, just need to figure out how to do the 5 volts... resistor maybe?

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wtd · Post by **wtd** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 2:59 pm

If a 3.5" hard drive fit in, a CD-ROM drive certainly never will fit.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 3:15 pm

No I'd have to customize it... or not use the case but not sure if it would even work or not, but can't see why not. I think all it is, it's a IDE to usb converter (the chip inside) so anything IDE should work.

But I'll probably never have the need for it, but will come in handy for testing stuff. I did not bother to put the screws on the drive (it won't fit if I do, that's how tight fit it is) so it would be easy to pop it open and test something.

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wtd · Post by **wtd** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:44 pm

Something worth looking into:

A friend of mine recently built a new PC. He had a PCI card with external S-ATA and power connections. He could plug in two S-ATA drives without ever opening the case.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:06 pm

Wow nice!

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