Laptop Drive Enclosure
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- GoldLounger
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Laptop Drive Enclosure
I have a number of old laptop drives. Is there is an enclosure that could hold more than one drive? Expandability would be great as I could use these drives for storage.
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John
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Re: Laptop Drive Enclosure
A Google search https://www.google.com/search?q=multipl ... +enclosure" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; should return many results.
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Re: Laptop Drive Enclosure
It might be interesting to find out if those old, slow, laptop drives were faster (if more bulky) than USB Flash Drives. It would certainly depend on whether or not you have USB 3.x sockets available!
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Re: Laptop Drive Enclosure
Hans,
Thanks for the link. My online searchs were turning up drive duplicators not enclosures for multiple drives.
Thanks for the link. My online searchs were turning up drive duplicators not enclosures for multiple drives.
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John
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Re: Laptop Drive Enclosure
You can buy a 4TB USB3 SSD external drive for £85 (about $100)
It hardly seems worth the effort of packaging lots of old, less reliable, slow laptop drives in an external enclosure.
It hardly seems worth the effort of packaging lots of old, less reliable, slow laptop drives in an external enclosure.
StuartR
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Re: Laptop Drive Enclosure
Stuart,
I agree that buying a new USB3 external drive is relatively inexpensive. Overtime I have acquired a collection of drives and it seems a shame just to format and dispose of them.
I'd prefer to use them for storage than turn them into door stops. What to do with old drives or other useful purposes may be an interesting topic in itself.
I agree that buying a new USB3 external drive is relatively inexpensive. Overtime I have acquired a collection of drives and it seems a shame just to format and dispose of them.
I'd prefer to use them for storage than turn them into door stops. What to do with old drives or other useful purposes may be an interesting topic in itself.
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John
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Re: Laptop Drive Enclosure
Our local Massachusetts Masonic Chapter, has a program where they received used laptops from individuals or businesses and repair, wipe clean and update them. They are then offered to local school districts to be be given free to kids who can't afford laptops. Component parts, like laptop HDs, are also accepted.
It has grown to a multi-state charitable program with good acceptance.
Very worthy cause!
It has grown to a multi-state charitable program with good acceptance.
Very worthy cause!
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Re: Laptop Drive Enclosure
Any particular brand you'd recommend?StuartR wrote:You can buy a 4TB USB3 SSD external drive for £85.
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Re: Laptop Drive Enclosure
My most recent purchase was a Toshiba HDTB440EK3CA, but that was an HDD, not an SSDstuck wrote:Any particular brand you'd recommend?StuartR wrote:You can buy a 4TB USB3 SSD external drive for £85.
A quick search shows that I was pricing the wrong type of drive for my comment!
StuartR
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Re: Laptop Drive Enclosure
That was my question, cause I was just going to post: You can get an external 4TB(!) SSD for around £85? (I know that SEK, the Swedish Krona, isn't worth much these days, but still.) (I haven't followed the development of external SSDs, but it seems Samsung's are popular there as well.)
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