Re: [Fed-Talk] Hooking an Old Hard Drive in an enclosure to New MBP
Re: [Fed-Talk] Hooking an Old Hard Drive in an enclosure to New MBP
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Hooking an Old Hard Drive in an enclosure to New MBP
- From: "Carl Ketterling" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:58:35 -0500
I agree -- the adapters work great! I think every hardware support
person should have one of these available for this purpose:
http://eshop.macsales.com/search/ide+adapter+usb
I have the $14.95 version which I use for moving data when swapping/
upgrading hard drives. Can't beat the convenience!
Carl
In response to this text from Edwards, Mark S (NIH/NINDS) [C]
(email@hidden) sent on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 1:45 PM (-0400):
>The universal drive adapters work great (We have some other brands as
>well), but one minor caveat. I've had some larger capacity drives
>generate too much head and give me problems when doing large file
>transfers to or from the drive with the universal drive adapters. I now
>blow my desktop fan over the drive to dissipate heat, and haven't had
>the problem again. (this didn't seem to be a problem for the average
><160 gb drive.
>
>--
>Mark Edwards
>Contractor - Lockheed Martin
>NINDS/NIH
>IT Tech Team Lead
>10 Center Drive
>Bldg 10 Room 5N248
>(301) 402-1546
>email@hidden
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Timothy J Miller [mailto:email@hidden]
>Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:39 PM
>To: Walls, Bryan K. (MSFC-IS30)
>Cc: email@hidden
>Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Hooking an Old Hard Drive in an enclosure to New
>MBP
>
>
>On May 29, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Walls, Bryan K. (MSFC-IS30) wrote:
>
>> You do need to make sure you get the right kind of case for the
>> drive, though. There's a good chance it's an IDE drive, but it could
>> be SCSI. SATA is a newer standard, and much less likely, and SAS
>> much less likely still. These are talking about the physical
>> connection to the drive, not the format of data on the drive.
>
>Or ditch the enclosure and get a universal drive adaptor:
>
>http://www.newertech.com/products/usb2_adapt.php
>
>-- Tim
>
>
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