26 May
2006
26 May
'06
12:11 p.m.
At 01:00 PM 5/26/2006, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Does anyone have any experience with devices such as
this? It looks like it
might be a good way to recover data from old (on-topic) IDE HD's.
My real interest would be using it as part of a backup device.
I use one (well, just IDE, not SATA) all the time. I'd bought two
types from from Geeks.com. One's just a USB to IDE dongle. I don't
think I've ever used it because the second one was more useful:
it had a case, a switch, and its own power supply to feed the IDE device.
First thing I did was take it out of its case. It has Firewire and USB;
I use it on FireWire. It's handy for moving data and temporarily mounting
drives without rebooting Windows, or for temporarily adding a CD/DVD burner
to other computers. Very handy: plug in the drive, power it on, move data,
"eject hardware" to dismount under Windows, then power down.
I've used it with notebook HDs using an adapter, too.
This seems to be a perennial topic, though - I'll save some time
and remind us that what we really wanted was a way to go from USB to
and from old floppy interfaces.
- John