GorillaXI Posted February 9, 2013 Member ID: 62 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 73 Topic Count: 480 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 4124 Content Per Day: 0.77 Reputation: 1413 Achievement Points: 27905 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 4, 2015 Birthday: 06/16/1972 Share Posted February 9, 2013 Has anyone taken an old laptop HDD and gotten a kit to make an external HDD? If so what kit is recommended? I found this one and am thinking about getting it. http://www.amazon.com/Kingwin-2-5-Inch-External-Drive-Enclosure/dp/B003ID9HR8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUDMAN Posted February 9, 2013 Member ID: 800 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 152 Topic Count: 136 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 6960 Content Per Day: 1.32 Reputation: 4503 Achievement Points: 58395 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 11/27/09 Status: Online Last Seen: 12 minutes ago Birthday: 05/29/1957 Device: Windows Share Posted February 9, 2013 If ti works please let me know .....the one I got a year or so ago did not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
loaderXI Posted February 9, 2013 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 392 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6420 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 6496 Achievement Points: 54362 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 30 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 10:54 PM Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted February 9, 2013 not sure what u want to do here but that is a IDE HDD case....Perhaps what u want is a external portable Hdd thats what I use....Mine is 500gb nd I think I caught it for like 60 bucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
GorillaXI Posted February 9, 2013 Member ID: 62 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 73 Topic Count: 480 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 4124 Content Per Day: 0.77 Reputation: 1413 Achievement Points: 27905 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 4, 2015 Birthday: 06/16/1972 Author Share Posted February 9, 2013 OK Loader, I have an old laptop IDE drive from my old laptop that I took out before I recycled the laptop. Now I have this 500 gig drive just laying around. I want to reuse it if there is any way to do economically, so I can have an extra storage device that I have just laying around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Canadian Posted February 9, 2013 Member ID: 822 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 87 Topic Count: 317 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5477 Content Per Day: 1.04 Reputation: 5025 Achievement Points: 42632 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 20 Joined: 12/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 25, 2023 Birthday: 03/01/1967 Device: Windows Share Posted February 9, 2013 Has anyone taken an old laptop HDD and gotten a kit to make an external HDD? If so what kit is recommended? I found this one and am thinking about getting it. http://www.amazon.com/Kingwin-2-5-Inch-External-Drive-Enclosure/dp/B003ID9HR8 The cheapest way to go is getting an IDE HD enclosure, the one you selected should do, np, GorillaXI 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Volvotech Posted February 10, 2013 Member ID: 808 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 36 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 31 Achievement Points: 292 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/29/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 15, 2023 Birthday: 08/24/1966 Device: Windows Share Posted February 10, 2013 They work, but be careful. I smoked 2 drives with mine. The drives got really hot and started the click of death. Some of the better enclosures have fans. You can modify them and add your own. I ended up leaving the cover off to disipate the heat and it was ok. GorillaXI 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbarker Posted February 10, 2013 Member ID: 689 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 69 Topic Count: 100 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2030 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 1533 Achievement Points: 13317 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 11/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 9, 2023 Birthday: 07/22/1965 Device: iPhone Share Posted February 10, 2013 Ive done it a bunch of times with old hds, never had a problem, but drives do go bad, in and enclosure or a laptop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
GorillaXI Posted February 10, 2013 Member ID: 62 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 73 Topic Count: 480 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 4124 Content Per Day: 0.77 Reputation: 1413 Achievement Points: 27905 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 4, 2015 Birthday: 06/16/1972 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 (edited) I guess I'll have to wait and see. I only paid about $10 for the case. Maybe I'll throw it into my work laptop bag for document backups. Thanks all for the input. Edited February 10, 2013 by GorillaXI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volvotech Posted February 10, 2013 Member ID: 808 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 36 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 31 Achievement Points: 292 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/29/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 15, 2023 Birthday: 08/24/1966 Device: Windows Share Posted February 10, 2013 The one I had was a Vantec. It was one of the first ones when these became available I think there were 4 slots in the case to let the heat out- It's no wonder it got hot. You could smell the heat coming off the case and the drives. Maybe the drives were on their way out, and the extra heat sped up their demise. Who knows. You should be ok- if it gets too hot, just open the case to vent it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplemod Posted February 10, 2013 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Share Posted February 10, 2013 I've got some laying around too, and plan on doing the same thing, just haven't gotten to it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee4You Posted February 11, 2013 Member ID: 2617 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 28 Topic Count: 10 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 107 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 89 Achievement Points: 911 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/22/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 2, 2016 Birthday: 03/11/1969 Share Posted February 11, 2013 I use one of these all the the time at work, they work great. Take the HD in and out as you please real fast if ya use the eSATA interface. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153071 The latest case I used on my home rig has this built into it! Any SATA drive you have layin around can be used! Also great for copying all that data from the person that wants me to fix their PC. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139006 Note: Both can read 2.5 "or 3.5" drives Coffee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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