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How much geek-nature does it take to salvage an old hard drive from an IBM thinkpad and put it into a case?
I'm gonna guess "very little." (I'm assuming that laptop HDs use the same IDE and power connectors that regular HDs use, or that you can get adapters if they don't. But I'm not 100% sure of this.) You just need to get a case that can hold a small laptop HD.
Are we talking soldering? Screwing? Oscilloscopes?
Screwing?
Wait, what kind of drive was that?
eta: Wait, do you mean an external HD case, or inside a computer case?
I mean an external HD case.
Here's something that might work: [link]
This will work with a 2.5" laptop drive. But I am confused as to why they say it'll work on 4200RPM drives up to 40 Gig. I don't see why the RPM or capacity would matter. They also say,
You'll need to fdisk & format the drive before use
Which I would think would not be necessary if the OS on the computer you're gonna attach it to can support the filetype of the drive.
But anyway, try googling 'external hard drive case laptop' for other possibilities.
ETA: [link]
EXTERNAL USB 2.0 CASE FOR LAPTOP 2.5" HARD DRIVE - $11
Hey, one Terabyte desktop HDs may arrive in 2007. That'd be about 200,000 mp3s.
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I'm gonna guess "very little." (I'm assuming that laptop HDs use the same IDE and power connectors that regular HDs use, or that you can get adapters if they don't. But I'm not 100% sure of this.) You just need to get a case that can hold a small laptop HD.
You can get adapters. Paul had to do that to pull the data from my mother's old hard drive after someone (probably my niece) got water on her laptop. As I recall, it wasn't difficult.
Hey, one Terabyte desktop HDs may arrive in 2007. That'd be about 200,000 mp3s.
Man, I remember back when terabyte was just sexy-sexy future spec.
Wasn't Data's (ST:tNG) memory capacity measured in terabytes?
If I add up all the storage space I've got in my apartment right now I'm getting very close to a Terabyte.
Hi :) My graphite AirPort died and I'm looking to replace it. If I have the original AirPort card in my iBook (also graphite), can I buy the AirPort Extreme/Express base station or would I have to buy a new AirPort Extreme card? Am I making any sense? At all? Needs my wireless connection back!!
ETA: I see that the newer card won't work in my computer. So, can I connect to a new (Extreme or Express) base station with my original AirPort card or am I hosed?
I have a friend that made a 1.5 TB Raid 5 recently.
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ETA: 6 300 GB drives, 5 of which you stripe as space and the 6th of which holds parity information (so you don't lose all the data if you lose one drive)
Guh.
