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    Note: Not a Notebook "moD"

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by waterloo, Jan 16, 2006.

  1. waterloo

    waterloo Notebook Evangelist

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    Umm>< heck dont know where to put. I was bored and I was looking for some big sized flash drives. What I learned was: Flash Drives are expensive as you get bigger (too much), and so I tried to figure out a cheap solution. I have a lot of old notebooks and laptops (Cyrix CPU notebooks I got too) and pulled out all the parts. I then thought about what to do with these parts. I tested to see if the hard drives were working and they did. The hard drives were about 6 gb or less. I needed that much space. So I bought myself a nice External Case and put the hard drive in there. The "case" looks pretty nice and it works "better" than a flash drive and saved me LOT of money!

    Case = 2.5 " external (small) 19 bux
    Hd = 6 GB free (not really back then it was like 99 bux)
    price = 24 dollorish
    If anyone looking for a way to get big storage on the go find some old notebook hds and put em in a case :p. It saved me A LOT of money and gave me a lot of space.

    I did buy a flash drive thing, a Kingston 256 mb...
    Pics I post soon.
     
    waterloo, Jan 16, 2006
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  2. waterloo

    waterloo Notebook Evangelist

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    Pros: Inexpensive. Works as advertised. Turns a notebook drive into a handy USB Drive....
    Cons: NonE!
     
    waterloo, Jan 16, 2006
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  3. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yea, it's a great thing, I have two em of myself, a 100gb 4200rpm with enclosure and a 60gb 5400rpm with enclosure, and they sure come in handy. I have tons of videos, pictures and files in there.

    It does cost more then a larger 3.5" HD and enclosure but its about 200% smaller!
     
    coriolis, Jan 16, 2006
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  4. tempoct

    tempoct Notebook Consultant

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    Great idea for making use of old drive :)
    I think it kinda has different usage than the frash media type memory. Those things are much tougher than portable HDD. It has no moving part, smaller form-factor and consume less energy. I'm pretty sure it won't break if you drop it 4-5 feet but that might not be the case of the HDD.
    I also have done that with my 40GB 4200rpm drive pulled out from my new v2000z.
     
    tempoct, Jan 16, 2006
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  5. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    It really is a good idea. My new notebook has a Serial ATA drive, and unfortunately I couldn't use the Parallel ATA drive from my previous machine - an 80GB 5400RPM Western Digital Scorpio, 8MB cache. So, I bought a Vantec enclosure for $17, USB powered, and did the same thing you did. :)

    Nice job.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Jan 16, 2006
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  6. squirrelza

    squirrelza Notebook Guru

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    Exactly what I am going to be doing with a 160GB 7200RPM, also got a free 128MB thumb drive (my dads work gave me one for free because they took a day longer to get my hardrive)
     
    squirrelza, Jan 16, 2006
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