Yeah, I know I am probably not using the correct words, but is there a way that i can make a tower of internal hard drives be kind of like an external hard drive, except with more storage? I know that I have heard of people doing it, but have never found the process? Any ideas on what kind of transfer cords or storage I need for this idea?
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All you really need is an external encloser. there around 40-50 bucks and you can get them with usb, firewire, or both
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yes you can examples above
simply take a hard drive and select desired type of casing
assemble and of you go
Yeah…called External Enclosure..
..I would only do this with 7200-rpm HDDs/..
..and 250-GBs is really the minimum..
Or you will run out of space—real fast—
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HDDs operate as 2-types these days..
Flat-data-Cable(P-ata)
Molex Connector(S-ata)
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Flat-data-Cables drives are USB 2.0 Devices..
and the Molex Connector allows a HDD(internal)..Always ON..
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I use a Belkin Ext. Enclosure..its a little more money..but seems the best..you need to use SAFE HDWR Removal TOOL..
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Some of the cheaper…EXT. Enclosures might work better for the Optical Drives..than the HDDs/..Belkin does seem best.
of course u can. one important factor to consider is the interface. some external enclosures or drive rack can take both ide and sata but many are designed for one or the other. there is also a newer design for sata-II which has the fastest transfer rate.
if your internal hard drives were bought some years’ ago, they would likely be ide drives and you will have to make sure that whatever you buy will have the proper interface connection.
you should also consider buying a new external drive instead of making use of your old internal drives. given that the price of external drive has come down substantially over the years, you may not be saving much. in fact, if you take into account of the likely increase in storage capacity (a 120GB drive would be considered massive a few years’ ago but nowadays we are talking 500GB and 1TB easily), there may not be any gain at all for sticking with your old drives.