26 May
2006
26 May
'06
11 a.m.
I was looking on eBay yesterday to see what is available in the way of SATA
Firewire or USB external enclosures when I ran across a very interesting
device:
http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-2-0-to-IDE-SATA-Serial-ATA-Hard-drive-Adapter-kit_W…
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. Simply buy
250GB SATA HD's, plug one in, run a backup to it, and then put it someplace
safe. Not really as reliable as a good SDLT-220 drive and tapes, but
definitely cheaper.
Zane