Learning wrote:
> I had similar problems.
.... except that you didn't reference the cbress article.
From: "cbress"
Newsgroups: 24hoursupport.helpdesk
Subject: Moving a hard drive
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:39:41 -0400
Message-ID: <i037iq$4s3$>
> I had a sata drive out of a HP box that I had
> received a message that the hard drive had failed. It wouldn't do a
> thing. I went to Best Buy and ran into a guy at the Geek Squad that
> was real sharp and knew his stuff. He told me to buy a "Black Widow"
> which would allow me to plug my old sata drive into it and it would
> hook up to my new computer through either the USB port or an external
> Sata cable plug in.
Here's an article with a pic about Thermaltake's Black Widow USB (or
eSATA) external 'dock' (rather than enclosure).
http://thegadget411.com/2008/12/blac...k-thermaltake/ Black
Widow External USB Hard Drive Dock by Thermaltake
> Now I have 10 1 terabyte internal hard drives that
> I just swap on this "Black Widow"
10 1T SATAs? That makes the Black Widow just the device for you. What
do you do with all of that storage?
> and I was also able to get all of
> the info off of my old Failed hard drive. By the way, it works
> wonderful and all I do is run a desk fan to blow on the drives while I
> am using them to keep from overheating. Sure it's not some sleek
> newfangled gadjet in a nice enclosure but it works wonderful and was
> an inexpensive solution to a possible pain in the butt problem...
The one at the gadget link retails for $23.
There are some other 'connectors' which will do both IDE and SATA and
USB and eSATA which are pretty economical but they don't have that
little dock.
> I hope this helps. ask any questions you moght have.
--
Mike Easter
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