28 Mar
2001
28 Mar
'01
11:36 a.m.
I just bought a
rig from Apricorn, via a IBM promotion for $69. Its a
cheesy external box, adapters for the various style IBM hard drive
carriers, and a PCMCIA IDE controller with a cable that plugs into either a
IDE notebook drive or one of the carrier adapters. Includes special
software to transfer contents of the internal drive to the new external
(with license to do it 10 times). Normally $129, use the link through IBM
and its $69.
That software licensing limit of 10 transfers between drives
is what sounds cheesy to me. If I'm going to buy hardware from
someone, it better not make itself unusable after 10 times!