USB Hard Drive Adapters
Everyone’s making them and they come in really handy…
Basically they’re devices you can use to access a bare hard drive. Most of them supports PATA and SATA 2.5″ and 3.5″ drives (though some vendors require a bunch of adapters to do it). The APRICORN DriveWire unit is clean and simple and priced around $30 (use a price search engine) or less.
I was so happy to find these units that I purchased two of them and gave away my previous ones made by another vendor.
If you’re going to routinely swap drives on and off a computer, and don’t want to spring for an external case you might be better off with a hard drive dock also available for about $30, but they don’t support PATA (PATA is not hot swapable).
If you’re going to use these units to upgrade a computer’s hard drive, remember Acronis TrueImage is a great tool (you can find shareware and OpenSource tools as well — but TrueImage is well worth the price and has many additional features that you’ll likely find useful).
APRICORN: DriveWire – Universal Hard Drive Adapter
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