[geeks] external USB hard drive cases

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 @ 19:35 -0500, Bill Bradford said:

> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 06:32:17PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > > I've got a bunch of these "bare kit" USB2-to-IDE kits in service and have 
> > > yet to have a problem with any of them, or find a drive that they didn't
> > > work with:
> > > http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=USB2IDE-N&cpc=SCH&srm=0
> > Neat.  I wonder though, by the time I buy a case, I might be better off
> > getting a full unit.
> 
> I have a ton of Sun external 5.25" drive enclosures, so thats why I did
> that. 8-)

You followed the packrat rules properly I see... 

I *have* thought about converting my old 4-bay SCSI case to Firewire or
something.  That way I don't have to deal with a wal-wart.

I guess you could re-use a lot of old cases.  The only really hard part
is getting a solid mount for the USB/Firewire/whatever connector on the
back, and maybe the convert board inside.

Sadly, I violated packrat rules and got rid of a lot of stuff I was not
using.

Neat Hack: 

Last year I built a drive cage out of cardboard.  It was mainly a test
to see how to design a very small case that still had good airflow.  I
had this idea of then using that as a model to build a metal one.  It's
a simple way to prototype cases.

I know nothing about working with sheet metal, so the project died after
the prototype.


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