Yes! a blog about USB external hard drives.
September 11th, 2009
Phil Battison asked:
Hard Drive Enclosures are getting increasingly popular, which, given their cost and ease of use is not surprising. Enclosures are a great way to re-use on old or salvaged hard disk drive from a computer and whilst these older hard drives are always as large as the current models (in terms of [...]
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September 5th, 2009
Phil Battison asked:
USB Cases, USB Caddy or USB Enclosures – create your own back up solution
Its easy to create your own Data Back Up solution from any old or new Hard Disks Drive
There are lots of reason why you might want to create an external back up solution using a Caddy:
Perhaps you want [...]
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August 28th, 2009
Phil Battison asked:
If you’ve got a lot of hard disks drives that you use on a regular basis or perhaps you’re an IT or Support Engineer and your job involves testing hard drives then you might want to consider a Hard Drive Docking station rather than a hard drive enclosure.
Whilst Hard Drive Enclosures are [...]
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August 26th, 2009
Phil Battison asked:
Are “One Touch Back Up” Hard Drive Enclosures worth the extra money?
There are lots of Hard Drive Enclosures available on the market for 2.5” and 3.5” Hard Drives. Often the distinguishing features between them (apart from the obvious size) are whether they are for IDE or SATA Hard Disk Drives and whether [...]
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August 12th, 2009
Phil Battison asked:
If you’ve got a large amount of data to back up or store then rather than looking at a standard Hard Drive Enclosure into which you install one Hard Drive you could consider a Dual Bay RAID Enclosure.
DUAL Bay enclosures as the name suggests support two separate Hard Disk Drives, which significantly [...]
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August 12th, 2009
Phil Battison asked:
What is a Hard Disk Enclosure and how do I use one?
A hard drive enclosure (sometimes also referred to as a Hard Disk Case or Hard Disk Caddy) is simply an external case that “encloses” a hard disk drive and turns it into an external device that can then be connected to [...]
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August 2nd, 2009
Phil Battison asked:
If you’ve removed your Hard Disk Drive (HDD) from you laptop to recover some data or to reuse the Hard Disk Drive to create your own portable storage solution then beware if you have a HDD that is 12mm thick. The thickness of the HDD is important when chosing any external HDD [...]
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