HDD/SSD caddy

Stephen M

Stephen M

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Hi all, I thought this worth sharing. I have just been given a couple of these (https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Internal...UTF8&qid=1486037706&sr=1-7&keywords=hdd+caddy) and think for the price they are pretty good. I have quite a few old drives from past machines (I expect a lot of us have) and these are great for turning them into portable USB drives. They are well constructed and solid, plus simple to set up, just click back and slide off the one panel, insert a drives and slide it back.

Mine were a gift, so even better but at the current price it is probably cheaper to sort out a portable USB drive by buying one of these and a standard HDD.
 
Oussebon

Oussebon

Multiverse Poster
Ironically I've just dismantled an old external 2.5" USB HDD to turn it into internal storage for my PC.

It was a 1 TB 12.5mm HDD with a USB 2.0 connection that was bottlenecking the storage quite a lot, so much so that I never used it for backing stuff up. I couldn't be bothered to buy a 12.5mm caddy so just turned it into spare storage.
 
ubuysa

ubuysa

The BSOD Doctor
Yep these are a great way of reusing old HDDs. My problem is that all the old drives I have lying around are 80GB or 100GB drives and IMO it just isn't worth the bother of trying to reuse such 'small' drives. Of course if you have larger drives lying around it makes much more sense. :)
 
Stephen M

Stephen M

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It is easy to forget how small drives used to be compared to today's standard stuff, I have a very old Acer, running on XP which has a 30GB disk yet when I got it that was considered good for a budget laptop. A while back I was looking at old reviews and saw one of the first where a guy was amazed at being able to get a laptop with with 2GB RAM, of course then it was good, where as only the four cheapest at PCS start at 2GB these days.
 
ubuysa

ubuysa

The BSOD Doctor
Stephen M said:
It is easy to forget how small drives used to be compared to today's standard stuff, I have a very old Acer, running on XP which has a 30GB disk yet when I got it that was considered good for a budget laptop. A while back I was looking at old reviews and saw one of the first where a guy was amazed at being able to get a laptop with with 2GB RAM, of course then it was good, where as only the four cheapest at PCS start at 2GB these days.
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One of the first mainframes I worked on had 512k of RAM and each disk volume (they were 3370s) had a capacity of 571MB. The CPUs were measured in MIPS (millions of instructions per seconds - or more usually misleading impression of processor speed) and some of the earlier ones I worked on just about managed half a MIPS, even a basic Pentium could outperform that. We did however manage to support several hundred concurrent users using that kit.....
 
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