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IDE to USB recomendation
#277067 - 02/23/12 10:27 PM
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I've got a bunch of old IDE hard drives and now can't remember why I saved them in the first place. I just want to have a look and possbly recover some data from them.
I've been looking at enclosures and don't really know what I want. Can anyone recomend one, or possibly a cable solution? 
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Re: IDE to USB recomendation
[Re: Darth Mario]
#277072 - 02/23/12 11:04 PM
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> I've got a bunch of old IDE hard drives and now can't remember why I saved them in
> the first place. I just want to have a look and possbly recover some data from them.
> I've been looking at enclosures and don't really know what I want. Can anyone
> recomend one, or possibly a cable solution?
Depends where you are. I know a place in the UK called Maplins has some good ones 9one with USB 3.0 support too) but their not exactly cheap. Ebay is a good bet
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Re: IDE to USB recomendation
[Re: Darth Mario]
#277076 - 02/23/12 11:18 PM
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Re: IDE to USB recomendation
[Re: Darth Mario]
#277077 - 02/23/12 11:46 PM
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> I've got a bunch of old IDE hard drives and now can't remember why I saved them in
> the first place. I just want to have a look and possbly recover some data from them.
> I've been looking at enclosures and don't really know what I want. Can anyone
> recomend one, or possibly a cable solution?
Stiletto posted a list of what's in his PC emergency toolkit here a while back. A couple of IDE adapters were discussed in the thread.
Hang on.. here it is
http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/sho...part=1&vc=1
I still like the red one from Drivewire but just for the looks  see Stiletto's reply to my post. The one that has a "write block" button sounds handy, writing to a damaged drive could make it worse.
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Re: IDE to USB recomendation
[Re: Darth Mario]
#277787 - 02/29/12 01:19 PM
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> I've got a bunch of old IDE hard drives and now can't remember why I saved them in
> the first place. I just want to have a look and possbly recover some data from them.
> I've been looking at enclosures and don't really know what I want. Can anyone
> recomend one, or possibly a cable solution?
I had the very same issue and I got one of these:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-HDD-Dock-3-5...=item45f86211f8
Fantastic piece of kit for the price.
HTH
Cheers,
Ralph.
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Re: IDE to USB recomendation
[Re: AeroCityMayor]
#279441 - 03/16/12 03:42 PM
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> I had the very same issue and I got one of these:
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> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-HDD-Dock-3-5...=item45f86211f8
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> Fantastic piece of kit for the price.
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> HTH
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> Cheers,
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> Ralph.
I like the look of that beast!
I ended up getting the ide2usb cables from Stiletto's post
Thanks for the tips everybody 
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Re: IDE to USB recomendation
[Re: aavada]
#279459 - 03/16/12 07:18 PM
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Yeah I've got one very similar to that, works fine. I have a couple of 2-drive SATA docks I use for large (1-2 TB) drives but for IDE drives I don't really mess with it, mine are all small capacity (I think they top out at 500GB? And the ones I have are like 60-80). So I just keep a cable handy in case I need to pull something off of them in an emergency.
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