Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'll second that, quite a handy thingy. I have one in use on an old ATA harddrive. Chris At 08:34 PM 8/1/2009, you wrote: >This is a worthwhile gadget to have. Similar ones are on sale at >most electronics/computer stores and on the internet. Mine is called >a "USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter" and is made by Newer Technology. >I believe I paid about $24 for it. You can pull the disc drive from >a computer or a broken housing, connect up the disc adapter plug and >download the contents of the disc to any device with a USB plug. The >real advantage, other than reading discs from failed computers, is >that you can buy naked disc drives on the internet for less than $50 >a terabyte and use them to store your data files. This was a >technique I learned from Brian. I now have a shelf full of them. >Each takes up less room than a VCR tape. Cheap, cheap. > >Incidentally, you can buy disc housings complete with power supply >and output ports into which you can mount the disc drive of your >choice for about $30 at any large computer store. Check out ><www.microcenter.com> >They are having a sale on this stuff. > >Larry Z > > > > >Frank wrote: >I bought a gadget which is to all intents and purposes a hard drive >connector on one end of a cable, a USB connector on the other and a >power supply, I found it easy to remove my hard drive from its case, >plugged everything and there was my data. Not a permanent installation >but great for this sort of situation, though repairing the USB socket >in the existing case is another option. > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information