External Hard drive Caddy

jamieukonline

Hi all,

Have been looking to get an external drive for a while for backing up and just realised I have a spare drive that I could pop in a caddy for less then a tenner.

Is this just as good as getting a complete new drive....?

I seem to remember being warned in the past to be careful carrying computers... as too much movement could damage the harddrive....does this apply to external harddrives?


Thanks

geewhiz

I was the same as you, had a couple of spare drives in a drawer so bought an enclosure for them, they make great sense when you already have the spare drives anyway.

As for carrying about, the caddy protects the drive anyway but moving computers only really causes a problem if they are switched on at the time so carrying it about in a caddy is perfectly safe to do.

phildamb

it depends on the size of the drives. If they are just the regular 3.5" PC ones then you can use either an internal caddie or just get an external enclosure. For a 2.5" you can easily get an enclosure for a few pound. this site has a good selection....



http://www.usbnow.co.uk/External_Hard_Drives/c10/index.html?gclid=COaJgPT31ZMCFRSN1QodtRIDlQ

sco0ter

I bought an AKASA integral external caddy a few months back. I originally got it to recover data from 2 corrupt hard drives that got wasted when mu old PC went bust. After that I bought an internal 750GB hard drive and put that in to use for back up purposes... It is great and can be upgraded with any hard drive size I see fit as well as being able to be used for recovering data should the need arise again. It also supports e-sata as well as USB.

I got it pricematched in PC world from amazon when it was £15.

this is it here

wanye

i started out using cheap enclosures several years ago, however i had numerous problems with them.

a few years ago i discovered ICY BOX enclosures, and have never looked back. i own 5 of them now (or varying flavours)

scan.co.uk and a lot of the big computer places sell them, they start at about 15quid depending on the type you want (i got a SATA2>usb2 dual drive enclosure for just under 30quid.

HTH