Removable drives

[Paul Schulz]

Andre,

I have recently bought two 'Wellend Sunbright' model of enclosures,
one to take IDA and the other  to take the SATA versions for regular
(3 1/2") drives, and I know someone else who is using one under
windows with out any problem.

http://www.welland.com.tw/

- Nice looking enclosure - black. Annoying blue LED in front panel
(can be easily disabled by not connecting it up.)

- Separate power supply brick

- USB2

- The SATA version of the enclosure also allows connection directly
via a SATA interface, which can be used instead USB. It also comes
with cable/backsocket, so you can bring the SATA interface out the
back of the PC from the motherboard.

(I have no affiliation with Welland other than being a happy customer.)

Cheers,
Paul


On 11/3/06, Andre Mangan <andremangan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you to all of you.  That is good news.  If I were to assemble a case
> with a hard drive, what connection do I use - IDE, SATA, USB, Firewire?
>
> I actually bought the little Maxtor at the beginning of the week and it does
> not work in Windows nor in Linux, hence my approach to Maxtor.  I think it
> is faulty.  What I wanted was a device which would let me copy the contents
> of one hard drive to be installed on another once I get a new computer
> built.  I really did not want to go through the lengthy update procedures
> yet again.  I know that anything like that does not work in Windows XP
> because of their restrictive licensing.
>
> I bet there is someone out there who will suggest a better method.  And that
> is one of the things I like about Ubuntu-au membership.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andre
>
>
>
> On 03/11/06, Andrew Shugg <andrew at neep.com.au> wrote:
> > Morgan Storey said:
> > > Realistically as long as it is just an external drive it will work, you
> > > could save some money by buying an external caddy (around $70 for a good
> > > one) then just putting as big a drive as you want/can afford in it.
> >
> > Agreed.  I have a couple of home-brew removable drives and they work
> > very well.  Don't be scared to get your own empty case and put a hard
> > drive in it yourself - it's very easy, some cases just snap together
> > with pins and rails holding the drive so there aren't even any screws.
> >
> > Here are some:
> >
> >   http://www.pccasegear.com.au/category287_1.htm
> >
> > I recently bought one of their Vantec 'Nextar' cases, but my workhorse
> > enclosure so far has been a Laser brand one from a local PC retailer.
> >
> > If you have Firewire (IEEE1394) ports in your PC, consider getting a
> > combo case that can do either USB2 or FireWire.  Subjective testing has
> > shown I getter performance over FireWire in both Ubuntu and WinXP by
> > about 3Mb/sec.
> >
> > If you're going to be sharing the drive between Linux and Windows you
> > will likely be formatting the disk as NTFS (unless you are game to try
> > the ext2 drivers for Windows).  Ubuntu has no problems reading my NTFS
> > drives, however I don't know what the status is with Linux writing to
> > NTFS.  It used to be a very risky thing but it might be better now -
> > anyone know?
> >
> > Only other thing is to remember to take the disk offline before
> > unplugging it so you don't mess up the filesystem.  A right-click on the
> > desktop icon and selecting 'Eject' will do this nicely.
> >
> > Andrew.
> >
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