On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:10:21 -0900, Greg Wallace
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:16:32 -0900, Greg Wallace
wrote: On Tuesday, March 29, 2005 @4:48 PM James Knott wrote:
Greg Wallace wrote:
My SuSE Linux machine is a desktop with one hard-drive slot. I need
to
attach storage via an External USB connection. So, I'd need a rack
-----Original Message----- From: Kevanf1 [mailto:kevanf1@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:43 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Need Hardware Storage Device Info On Wednesday, March 30, 2005 @ 3:43 AM, Kevan Farmer wrote: that
can
be set up that way.
The USB external cases aren't that expensive. They'll do all you want.
Well James, looks like maybe I didn't look hard enough the first time I went web searching. I found a hard drive caddy with a removable rack that appears to do all I want for $59.98 + $19.99 for the second tray!
http://www.coolgear.com/productdetails1.cfm?sku=USBG-DKUS1&catid=315,131,168
&cats=
Others had mentioned hard drive caddies, but when I looked at a few the first time around, I didn't see that they did what I needed. I just didn't quite get how the worked.
Thanks, Greg W
That's exactly the sort of thing that I use but in the PC itself. The only difference is that this one has a USB interface and an exterior box. That price looks a bit hefty to me. I would have thought a max' of about $20US. They retail for about £10UK.
-- Take care. Kevan Farmer
34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR Kevan: $200? But this one is only $59.98 + $19.99 = $79.97. The only thing I'm wondering is why it's so much less expensive than the Wiebetech that would cost $219.90. Seems like there has to be some significant difference, but the Coolgear device certainly sounds like it does what I'm needing.
Greg W.
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He, he :-) Greg I think you may have misread my post, not $200 but $20 I added the US to denote US dollars as that's what I imagine they would retail for comparing them to UK prices. However, that is for an internal version. I would imagine the USB external one would come with some sort of powersupply. They normally do being as a hard drive probably would need more power than is supplied by the USB port. Of course I could be wrong as scanners etc can be powered this way. Anyway, a thought. Do you have an internal 5.25 bay free? Have you considered putting you main HD in the internal one configured as master then getting a drive bay such as I mentioned to work internally and put this in the exposed bay as slave? I've done this succesfully with my PC's. It's perfect for swapping around drives between my Window$ Pc and my Linux one. -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR