IDE Hard Drive enclosures - Club CDFreaks

G_Ivan Awfulitch · 22-12-2004

I would like to get a bunch of hard drives out of my computer, but be able to still pull info off or write to any of them if needed. I am thinking of getting one of those enclosures that fit into a 5.25 drive slot and have the hard drives on trays that slip in and lock into place. That way you could take one out and slip in another tray with HD in it. That would reduce the cables in my computer and wouldn't be as much of a power drain either.

What do you think?? Anyone using this method and does it work well?

Thanks, G IvanAwfulitch and Bea Ann

*Chriso* · 22-12-2004

I'm thinking of doing the same. Here's a link for a UK (I think) company which sells the mounts and the actual caddies for the hard drives:

http://www.lindy.com/uk/index.php

Ciao
Chriso

*Jucius_Maximus* · 22-12-2004

I used it for a while. The thing to remember is that the cooling for those things isn't too great. I would not put a 7200 RPM drive into one of those enclosures unless it had a lot of fans. I have a Lian Li enclosure with 3 fans and still I worried about the temperature of that 7200 drive I used to store in it.

*lui_gough* · 23-12-2004

oh - and a word of warning - many enclosures are SHORTER than the drive rack bit that you would put in, so the rack will protrude from the box (that's my experience)

*kamikazee* · 23-12-2004

I use removable hard drives, have been for years now, I do alot of testing and the last thing I want to do is lose anything important, so all my test stuff stays on one Hard drive, all games on another, all editing on another, I've never had a problem with heat, of course my racks have ther own fans and temp indicators, and they've never been over 85 degrees Farenheit. 6 removable drives in all so far. They are ata 133 7200 rpm drives also. these are the ones I use:
http://www.pcclub.com/product_detail...emno=A3326302#

*Braxas* · 23-12-2004

Wow, Kamikazee. Great link - I may have to check into that more someday. I even forgot all about removeable hard drives.

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G_Ivan Awfulitch CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Cowtown,Texas YeeHawwww Posts: 495	IDE Hard Drive enclosures I would like to get a bunch of hard drives out of my computer, but be able to still pull info off or write to any of them if needed. I am thinking of getting one of those enclosures that fit into a 5.25 drive slot and have the hard drives on trays that slip in and lock into place. That way you could take one out and slip in another tray with HD in it. That would reduce the cables in my computer and wouldn't be as much of a power drain either. What do you think?? Anyone using this method and does it work well? Thanks, G IvanAwfulitch and Bea Ann __________________ It is better to have loved a short, than never have loved a tall! P4 2.8 at 3.2 Albatron PX865PE Pro 5 HD's 1.4+ TB 2GB DDR 3200 Mad Dog (NEC 3500), Benq oem 1620 and BQ 1640 Mad Dog (NEC 3520) In Firewire/USB2 enclosure BTC DVD-Rom, Plex 48/24/48U Many usb2 and firewire ports ATI 9200.......Running XP Pro SP2 2nd 'Puter (On line use) Compaq 5000 series P3-733 1 HD 60GB 512MB 133 Memory lite-on 48x12x48, Btc 1108im 8 usb2 and 6 firewire ports networked printers Canon S820 & Epson R300 1 printer still in the box Canon S750 Running XP Pro SP2

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Chriso CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Liverpool, England Posts: 2,066	Re: IDE Hard Drive enclosures I'm thinking of doing the same. Here's a link for a UK (I think) company which sells the mounts and the actual caddies for the hard drives: http://www.lindy.com/uk/index.php Ciao Chriso __________________ Videos of me playing piano, would be nice to have feedback from you all! [23:49] <Chriso> !seen Boobies [23:49] <JuPiLeR> I found 430 matches to your query; please refine it to see any output. OS: openSUSE 10.3 and Windows XP SP2 PSU: Enermax Liberty 400w - Modular Mobo: Jetway V266B CPU: AMD AthlonXP 2000+ RAM: 256MB Crucial PC2100 + 512MB Corsair Value Select PC2100 HDD: 120GB Maxtor ATA133 8MB Cache + 320GB Western Digital "RAID Edition" ATA100 8MB Cache Gfx Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 passive cooled Sound Card: SB Live 1024 DVD-ROM Drive: Asus E-616 CD-RW: LiteON 52246S DVD-RW: NEC ND2510A in external Firewire enclosure (Prolific chipset) USB2 Card: ALI chipset (got an NEC chipset one waiting to go in) Firewire Card: Not sure of chipset...but it seems to work D-Link Network Card My old Voodoo 3 2000 PCI has now retired, still in perfect working order though! Get Firefox! Join CDFreaks

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Jucius_Maximus CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 815	Re: IDE Hard Drive enclosures I used it for a while. The thing to remember is that the cooling for those things isn't too great. I would not put a 7200 RPM drive into one of those enclosures unless it had a lot of fans. I have a Lian Li enclosure with 3 fans and still I worried about the temperature of that 7200 drive I used to store in it. __________________ DVD DL Writer = BenQ DW1620 OEM @ 1620Pro (RPC1 FW B7V9) DVD DL Writer = NEC ND-3500AG (Official FW 2.19)

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lui_gough CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: .au/sydney Posts: 1,025	Re: IDE Hard Drive enclosures oh - and a word of warning - many enclosures are SHORTER than the drive rack bit that you would put in, so the rack will protrude from the box (that's my experience)

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kamikazee Blindwrite Team Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,074	Re: IDE Hard Drive enclosures I use removable hard drives, have been for years now, I do alot of testing and the last thing I want to do is lose anything important, so all my test stuff stays on one Hard drive, all games on another, all editing on another, I've never had a problem with heat, of course my racks have ther own fans and temp indicators, and they've never been over 85 degrees Farenheit. 6 removable drives in all so far. They are ata 133 7200 rpm drives also. these are the ones I use: http://www.pcclub.com/product_detail...emno=A3326302# __________________ A simple guide to the BB5 Builder The Original guide to A-Ray scanner How to use a downloaded BWA PhotoDVD How To Blindwrite 5 intro

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Braxas CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 1,285	Re: IDE Hard Drive enclosures Wow, Kamikazee. Great link - I may have to check into that more someday. I even forgot all about removeable hard drives. __________________ ...I will NEVER* buy another Lite-On Product...* BenQ DW1620 DVD-Burner w/B7U9 Firmware Samsung TS-H492A CD-RW/DVD Combo drive w/TB02 Firmware Mad Dog Dominator 6-in-1 (NEC ND2510A) w/2.F9 Firmware Abit AI7 uGuru motherboard Pentium 4 2.4 Gigahertz 800 megahertz FSB 512 (2x256)megs of Kingston PC-3200 DDR 1 Gigabyte (2x512) megs of Kingmax PC-3200 DDR 1.5 gigabytes total PC-3200 DDR Memory 2x80 gigabyte Western Digital Special Edition 8 megabyte buffer 7200 RPM IDE Hard Drives Radeon 9600SE 128 megabyte video card

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