On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 05:58:17 -0500, Mike McMullin
On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 18:26, Greg Wallace wrote:
I currently have an external hard drive container with a single hard drive capacity. I would like to have the ability to swap out hard-drives on a single device similar to this one except without having to go through all of the effort of screwing the drive down onto the mounts. I'm wondering if anyone manufactures a device that makes it simpler to remove and replace disk drives into the device. In my dreams, it might have some simple thumb screws too attach it to the mount so that all you would have to do is slip it in, connect the USB cable and power to the drive, tighten down the thumb screws, slip the cover over it, and plug it in and use it. I. e., you could change out a hard drive on this device in 5 minutes or less. Anyone out there know if there is such a device?
IIRC there are USB 2.0 external hd bays that you can buy. You buy the bay and supply the hd.
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Have you thought about using a hard drive caddy? I don't know if this is what you are really after but it takes the form of a rack type mount that fits into a 5.25 bay in your PC. Into this rack fits a removable tray that will lock into place using a key. Buy a couple and you can swap them around. Sorry if this is totally off track but I use them in all of my PCs and find them indispensible now. The main downside to using them is that you lose the hot plugging ability that you have with USB. When you want to change a drive you have to power down. -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR