Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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.