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    Want to re-use my old 2.5" laptop hdds as network drives

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by debrent, Mar 2, 2012.

  1. debrent

    debrent Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've recently had to replace my laptop due to a MB failure. The HDDs in it (it had 2) are still pretty new and I wanted to enclose them and re-use them for file storage on my home network. I've been online looking at enclosures at NewEgg that would allow me to do this but I didn't see anything that looked like the obvious solution.

    Has anyone else out there been successfull in doing this. It seems a shame to waste about a TB of perfectly good disk space.

    I have a Black Widow "toaster style" docking bay for them, but I wanted more of a permanent enclosure.

    Thanks,
    Don
     
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    Look for a network NAS or better yet, if you have an old PC, laptop, whatever, build a Windows Home Server (original v1, not the new WHS 2011).
     
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